Acorn TV, 5 plot Murder Before Evensong

TRAILER: Harry Potter star Matthew Lewis takes the lead in Murder Before Evensong, a new murder mystery series launching on Acorn TV in the US and Canada on September 29 before its UK debut on 5 this autumn.

Based on the first novel in the Canon Clement Mysteries book series by the Reverend Richard Coles, the six-part drama is set in 1980s England. Lewis stars as Canon Daniel Clement, the Rector of Champton, who finds himself unexpectedly entangled in a murder case when a dead body turns up in the church.

Daniel shares Champton rectory with his widowed mother Audrey (Amanda Redman) – and his two dachshunds, Cosmo and Hilda. When Daniel announces a plan to modernise the church, the parish is suddenly divided. Then a body is found dead at the back of the church. As the police move in and the bodies start piling up, Daniel is the only one who can try and keep his fractured community together… and catch a killer.

The cast also includes Amit Shah as DS Neil Vanloo, Adam James as Bernard De Floures, Meghan Treadway as Honor De Floures, Alexander Delamain as Alex De Floures, Marion Bailey as Kath, Amanda Hadingue as Dora, Tamzin Outhwaite as Stella Harper, Francis Magee as Edgy and Nina Toussaint-White as Jane Thwaite.

Murder Before Evensong is adapted by Nick Hicks-Beach (Lewis, DCI Banks) and directed by David Moore (Fool Me Once, Outlander). Executive producers are the Reverend Richard Coles, Radford Neville for The Lighthouse Film and Television, Catherine Mackin and Don Klees for Acorn TV/Acorn Media Enterprises, and Paul Testar and Sebastian Cardwell for 5.

AMC Networks is handling global content sales.

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