![]() (Second book Moonflower Murders arrived on shelves in late 2020.) Horowitz, likely best known to Anglophiles for the long-running period series Foyle's War, is also an acclaimed author and tells a "mystery within a mystery" style story in his latest series of novels. The Oscar nominee is set to star as book editor turned amateur sleuth Susan Ryeland in the television adaptation of Anthony Horowitz's bestselling novel Magpie Murders. (As we all should be, honestly!)Įnter Lesley Manville. But as great as those series all are, audiences are still clamoring for more female-led content in this particular genre. ![]() ![]() And Nicola Walker has made something of a cottage industry out of playing a gusty female detective in various crime dramas of all stripes ( Unforgotten, Annika). There's Miss Scarlet & the Duke, of course, which tells the story of the fictional Eliza Scarlet, who opened the first female-led detective agency in Victorian London. While Masterpiece certainly has no shortage of prestige mystery series in its stable (see also: Endeavour, Grantchester, Van Der Valk, Vienna Blood, Baptiste and many more) there are markedly fewer shows that feature a female lead taking charge of solving crimes. ![]()
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