Moonflower Murders (TV series)

Moonflower Murders is a 2024 television series. It is an adaptation of the 2020 mystery novel of the same name by British author Anthony Horowitz and the second novel in the Susan Ryeland series. The numerous through-line plot elements make a de facto season two of the Magpie Murders series.

Moonflower Murders
Genre	Murder mystery
Created by	Anthony Horowitz
Based on	Moonflower Murders by Anthony Horowitz
Screenplay by	Anthony Horowitz
Directed by	Rebecca Gatward
Starring	Lesley Manville Timothy McMullan
Theme music composer	Murray Gold
Country of origin	United Kingdom United States
Original language	English
No. of series	1
No. of episodes	6
Production
Executive producers	Suzanne Simpson Lesley Manville Rebecca Gatward Suzanne McAuley Jill Green Anthony Horowitz
Cinematography	Peter Robertson
Editor	Catherine Creed
Production companies	BBC Studios Eleventh Hour Films Masterpiece
Original release
Network	BBC One (United Kingdom) PBS (United States)

Cast

• Lesley Manville as Susan Ryeland
• Timothy McMullan as Atticus Pünd
• Alexandros Logothetis as Andreas
• Daniel Mays as Locke / Chubb
• Pooky Quesnel as Pauline Treherne / Maureen Gardner
• Claire Rushbrook as Katie Williams
• Conleth Hill as Alan Conway
• Matthew Beard as James Taylor
• Sanjeev Kohli as Sajid Khan
• Mark Gatiss as Frank Parris / Oskar Berlin
• Rosalie Craig as Lisa Treherne / Melissa James
• Pippa Bennett-Warner as Madeline Cain
• Adrian Rawlins as Lawrence Treherne / Lance Gardner
• Liam Garrigan as Leonard Collins
• Jeany Spark as Samantha Collins
• Kostis Daskalakis as Vangelis
• Alec Secareanu as Stefan Leonida
• Will Tudor as Aiden MacNeil / Algernon Marsh
• Amy Griffiths as Cecily MacNeil
• Rupert Evans as John Spencer
• Wade Briggs as Liam Corby
• Joanna Bacon as Gwyneth Endicott / Phyllis Chandler
• Thomas Coombes as Derek Endicott / Eric Chandler

Production

In January 2023, the series was bought by BBC One from BritBox. The BBC then developed plans to produce a sequel series to Magpie Murders.^[1] Author Anthony Horowitz adapted his book for the series himself, which is directed by Rebecca Gatward.^[2] The six-part series is produced by Eleventh Hour Films and executive produced by Jill Green, and made in association with PBS’s Masterpiece, for whom the first series attracted over five million viewers.^[3][4]

In 2023, BBC began filming a series based on Moonflower Murders, released in 2024. Lesley Manville and Timothy McMullan reprised their roles as Susan and Atticus from the previous Magpie Murders series.^[5] The series features new cast members including Mark Gatiss, Rosalie Craig, Pippa Bennett-Warner and Adrian Rawlins, as well as returning roles for Alexandros Logothetis, Daniel Mays, Claire Rushbrook, Conleth Hill, Matthew Beard and Sanjeev Kohli.^[6]

Filming was completed by December 2023, with filming locations including Dublin and Crete.^[7][8]

Broadcast

The series was broadcast in the US on Masterpiece on 15 September 2024, and was broadcast on BBC One in the United Kingdom on 16 November 2024.^[9]