The present sees Lesley Manville and Timothy McMullan return as Susan Ryeland and Atticus Pünd.
The BBC have launched first look photos from its upcoming adaptation of Anthony Horowitz’s 2020 novel Moonflower Murders.
The six-part collection is a sequel to Magpie Murders, which the BBC aired earlier this yr.
Anthony Horowitz adapts his personal novel, with Rebecca Gatward (Dangerous Sisters) directing. The collection produced is Suzanne McAuley (Magpie Murders), and the manager producer is Jill Inexperienced.
Moonflower Murders
Susan has left publishing and resides in Crete together with her long-time boyfriend, Andreas. However her idyll is disturbed by the shadow of a homicide dedicated at a British nation lodge eight years in the past. Alan Conway visited the lodge and wrote a novel based mostly on what occurred there. Cecily Treherne, the younger lady who helps run the lodge, learn the ebook and believed the fallacious man had been arrested. Now she has disappeared.
Can Susan uncover the key hidden within the ebook and discover Cecily earlier than it’s too late?
Lesley Manville is again as ebook editor turned sleuth Susan Ryeland, with Timothy McMullan reprising the well-known literary detective Atticus Pünd. Additionally returning are Alexandros Logothetis, Daniel Mays, Claire Rushbrook, Conleth Hill, Matthew Beard and Sanjeev Kohli.
Becoming a member of the ensemble for Moonflower Murders are Mark Gatiss (Sherlock), Rosalie Craig (The Queen’s Gambit), Pippa Bennett-Warner (Gangs of London) and Adrian Rawlins (Gradual Horses).
Lesley Manville says:
“I had an unimaginable time returning to the function of the good and feisty Susan Ryeland. Anthony Horowitz has written one other ingenious adaptation and I’m thrilled to be part of it.”
Anthony Horowitz provides:
“I’ve been watching the filming of Moonflower Murders with pleasure. We’re again with the identical forged, together with Lesley Manville, Tim McMullan and Danny Mays – however this time we’ve obtained an entire new field of methods to current as literary editor Susan Ryeland untangles one other ebook inside a ebook and one other collection of unfathomable murders. I can’t wait to indicate it to our viewers.”
Moonflower Murders is a co-Manufacturing of Eleventh Hour Movies for MASTERPIECE and BBC in affiliation with Salt Movies.
Within the US, the present might be obtainable to stream within the US on PBS.org, the PBS App and the PBS MASTERPIECE Prime Video Channel. Within the UK, it’s coming to BBC One and BBC iPlayer.
There’s no date introduced for Moonflower Murders but – we’ll preserve you posted. Within the meantime, you possibly can stream Magpie Murders on BBC iPlayer.