Businessman Marco Pierboni (Joe Kloenne) is killed in his garden, but his body is found near his factory. Meanwhile, a young woman named Sandra Durani (Vittoria Belvedere) disappears, just as a series of anonymous letters start to hint that there is some kind of a conspiracy. Journalist Nicole Venturi (Edwige Fenech), Sandra’s mother, starts to investigate the case with  Andrea Baresi (Manuel Bandera) and police inspector Stefano Avanza (Ray Lovelock) and soon finds the body of her daughter near the bank of a river and soon finds a third body, Sandra’s friend Paolo Roversi (Lorenzo Flaherty).

Welcome to Private Crimes, a four part/six hour television miniseries co-produced by Fenech, directed by Sergio Martino nearly a quarter decade after they worked together on some of the classics of giallo (The Strange Vice of Mrs. Wardh, Your Vice Is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key, All the Colors of the Dark) and written by Laura Toscano and Franco Marotta.

I think it’s really interesting that the synth score by Natale Massara sounds so much like Twin Peaks and this all feels like an Italian version of that. I don’t say that as if it’s being ripped off, just that it has the flavor of it.

The main draw for this — being Sergio Martino — is Fenech. Not only does she look as fashionable as you’d hope, she also really gets the chance to show some dramatic acting range, as she’s going through increasingly more threatening letters and trying to solve the case while dealing the loss of her daughter. Because the miniseries has more time than your average movie, it gives her time to explore the character. She also has a fabulous white cat that she seems to take everywhere with her.

I kind of like the idea of Martino watching David Lynch and giggling at how much he’s enjoying it.

You can get this from Severin.