Masterpiece Reveals the First Look Teaser For 'Magpie Murders'

PBS is presenting an all-female detective lineup this Fall, and the show firmly ensconced at the center of this block of mystery programming is the highly anticipated new series Magpie Murders. Based on the 2016 novel by British author Anthony Horowitz and adapted by the same, the story is the debut of his amateur detective Susan Ryeland, who begins the series as the book editor to author Alan Conway, the mastermind behind the best-selling Atticus Pünd detective series. But when he dies after turning in the manuscript to his next novel, Ryeland discovers she has two mysteries to solve: Where the last chapter of his novel went and who it was that killed her friend.