[1] It is Audible's most listened-to podcast series of all time,[2] and spent seven consecutive weeks as the site's number one nonfiction best seller.

[4] Sophie Toscan du Plantier was found murdered on 23 December 1996, on the driveway of her holiday home in Drinane, near Schull, County Cork, Ireland.

Sophie was born on 28 July 1957 and raised in the first district of Paris in an apartment where her parents Marguerite and Georges Bouniol still live.

Directed by Guy Girard the film was released a year after her murder and was billed as presented by ‘Sophie Toscan Du Plantier" [5] On 13 May 2021, Sister Pictures, the company behind the Chernobyl miniseries announced that it was in development with a dramatic adaptation of the West Cork series.

[9] Justine McCarthy in The Sunday Times described it as a "seminal series" and "a work of forensic journalism stamped with integrity".

[3] Leading regional newspaper The Southern Star introduced a weekly column devoted to the series[18] noting that "The amount of future projects the West Cork podcast has either inspired or influenced is truly mind boggling.

[23] The paper reported that news of a dramatic adaptation of the series by Sister was "bound to create a lot of local interest, given the huge popularity of the original audio podcast.

"[22] On 14 May 2021, West Cork creators released a new episode of the series, detailing the trial and conviction in-absentia of Ian Bailey.

Martin Graham police informant but double crossed the police, telling Bailey of their plan to elicit a confession Pierre-Louis Bauday-Vignaud: Sophie's son from a previous marriage, who was 14 at the time of his mother's murder Marie Dosé: Lead prosecuting lawyer in the 2019 trial in absentia of Ian Bailey in Paris.

Dermot Dwyer: Retired former chief superintendent of the West Cork division of An Garda Siochana, former lead detective in the investigation.