Just after seven P.M. on December 21, 1988, Pan Am Flight 103 exploded over the Scottish town of Lockerbie, killing 270 people in the deadliest terrorist attack in U.K. history. Among the victims was Flora Swill. Grief stricken and desperate for answers, her father, Jim, embarked on a 36-year quest to find those responsible. His investigation culminated in The Lockerbie Bombing: A Father’s Search for Justice, a book co-written with Peter Biddulph that challenges the conviction of Abdel Bassel Ali al-Megrahi, the Libyan man held accountable for the bombing. The story has now been adapted into a television series starring Colin Firth as Swill. “The show is as much about the nature of obsession as it is about justice,” writes Calum Marsh in The New York Times. “Like other paranoid thrillers including ‘Zodiac’ or ‘The Insider,’ the answers always seem slightly out of reach.” —Jeanne Malle