Will 'Marble Hall Murders' Be Adapted as 'Moonflower Murders' Follow-Up?

Moonflower Murders wrapped up the second mystery in the Susan Ryeland series on PBS, but that doesn't mean the editor-turned-mystery sleuth, played by Lesley Manville, has solved her last case. Much like Magpie Murders, which introduced Ryeland, her author Alan Conway (Conleth Hill), and his mystery novels that mirror real-life cases, Moonflower Murders once again had two different mystery stories to solve, and once Susan reached the end of the Moonflower Murders novel in the series, she could solve the Moonflower Murders case in real life as well.

At the halfway point of the new series, author Anthony Horowitz, who also adapted his own work for screen, sat down with us to discuss the chances of another season and perhaps a more pressing question: Why call it Moonflower Murders instead of Magpie Murders Season 2? Considering the crowded landscape of television, isn't that risking viewers not putting the two together?

However, Horowitz was adamant that calling the second series Magpie Murders Season 2 would have been ridiculous, and it seems like Masterpiece never even considered it. "It's two completely different books," he explained to Telly Visions. "This show has no magpies, apart from a brief appearance in Episode 1. But this is an entirely different story set in the Moonflower Hotel." Moreover, when it comes to a potential third season, it wouldn't be Magie Murders Season 3 or Moonflower Murders Season 2. Instead, it will be named for the next book in the series, Marble Hall Murders.