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The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Lucy Mangan

Pieces of Her review – Toni Collette is a mum with a murderous past in this fun spy saga

Bella Heathcote as Andy and Toni Collette as Laura in Pieces of Her.
Not so cuddly … Toni Collette as Laura and Bella Heathcote as Andy in Pieces of Her. Photograph: Netflix

So – what if your mum was John Wick? Or Jason Bourne, but with his memory intact? Or Jack Reacher only smaller?

Such is the tasty question posed by Pieces of Her, a new Netflix thriller based on the 2018 Karin Slaughter bestseller. It seems unlikely that this is the first adaptation for television of Slaughter – who has been banging out addictive crime novels to great acclaim for the last 21 years, but it does seem to be the case. The Grant County and Will Trent series are in development but have not yet seen the light of day.

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