MOONFLOWER MURDERS s2 (was magpie murders S1 ) starts 16th Nov - SAT 9.15pm - TV PACE - NO SPOILERS

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Yah. S2 starts Saturday 16th November for a double bill

All named after books so the title changes

Was magpie murders. S1

Now moonflower murders S2

Below is thread for s1 if want to watch on iPlayer to refresh or if haven't seen s1

MAGPIE MURDERS. SAT 9.15 BBC 1 - tv pace. NO SPOILERS
www.mumsnet.com/Talk/telly_addicts/4772295-magpie-murders-sat-915-bbc-1-tv-pace-no-spoilers

Don't read below unless seen s1 magpie murders

What happened in the Moonflower Murders prequel Magpie Murders?

Magpie Murders followed Susan Ryeland, a book editor who was given a manuscript of author Alan Conway’s unfinished novel. In the book Conway’s detective Atticus Pünd, who is terminally ill, investigates two deaths in the small town of Saxby-on-Avon. But the manuscript ends just as Atticus is about to reveal the murderer’s identity, leaving Susan determined to find the missing last chapter.

She then hears that Conway supposedly committed suicide but believes this isn’t true and finds herself investigating his murder.

So back to s2

The second season of hit detective show Magpie Murders, called Moonflower Murders (www.radiotimes.com/tv/drama/magpie-murders-season-2-release/), has already aired in the US, leaving UK viewers waiting until they can catch up with Susan Ryeland and the fictional Atticus Pünd.

The season will officially kicks off with a double-bill, with the first two episodes airing back to back on BBC One at 9:15pm and 10:20pm on Saturday 16th November.

The new season, which is based on the second novel in Anthony Horowitz’s Susan Ryeland series, will pick up where Magpie Murders left off, with Susan having left publishing and living in Crete with her long-time boyfriend, Andrea

The synopsis for the season says: "Her idyll is disturbed by the shadow of a murder committed at a British country hotel eight years ago. Alan Conway visited the hotel and wrote a novel based on what happened there.

Cecily Treherne, the young woman who helps run the hotel, read the book and believed the wrong man had been arrested. Now she has disappeared.

"Can Susan uncover the secret hidden in the book and find Cecily before it is too late?"

Lesley Manville and Tim McMullan will, of course, both be returning, along with Alexandros Logothetis, Daniel Mays, Claire Rushbrook, Conleth Hill, Matthew Beard and Sanjeev Kohli

3rd one is in production

Susan Ryeland and Atticus Pünd are returning for one last mystery in Marble Hall Murders, the final novel in a trilogy by Anthony Horowitz that began with Magpie Murders and Moonflower Murders. We'll keep you posted as we learn more about casting and premiere dates.

Start filming in March

Susan Ryeland and Atticus Pünd are returning for one last mystery in Marble Hall Murders. The third and final novel in a trilogy by Anthony Horowitz that began with Magpie Murders and Moonflower Murders is being adapted for Masterpiece and will once again star Lesley Manville as book editor Ryeland and Tim McMullan as the fictional detective Pünd, and Horowitz is again adapting his book for the screen.
For this third case, Ryeland is back in England from Crete and once again looking for a real killer in a work of fiction, Pünd's Last Case, written by a young writer after the death of Alan Conway. The new mystery is set in 1955 in Corfu.
We don't yet have an airdate or additional casting, but the series will begin filming in March.

Thank you - exciting!

I read " a line to kill " a while back that would make a great 4 parter for the BBC. There no dual timeliness so easily followed

Trouble with a line to kill and the others in that series is that Anthony Horowitz is a character in the books. So will have to cast an actor as him.

I’ve pre ordered Marble Hall Murders btw love this series. Nice to have a woman if a certain age as heroine.