Down Cemetery Road

Matt Roush says...

Apple TV is doubling down on the works of Mick Herron, whose Slow Horses books inspired the Emmy-winning series, which is wrapping its fifth terrific season. As Horses ends, a new thriller adapting another of Herron’s novels begins. This offbeat mystery opens with the devastating explosion of a suburban home in South Oxford, where neighboring art conservationist Sarah Tucker (Luther and The Affair‘s Ruth Wilson) becomes suspicious when she can’t make contact with the sole survivor, a child. The more she prods, the more the official stonewalling frustrates her. Unaware she’s about to pry open a dangerous Pandora’s box of conspiratorial secrets, Sarah enlists a local private-eye agency run by the prickly Zoë Boehm (Emma Thompson, a punk riot). Hitchcock would have loved Herron’s deft blending of suspense and humor. Launches with two episodes.

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