Magpie Murders Season 2 OTT release date: Here's when and where you can stream Lesley Manville-led Moonflower Murders

The mystery drama Magpie Murders will return for a second season with the title Moonflower Murders. The highly anticipated sequel will be released on SonyLIV (OTTplay Premium) beginning November 15, 2024. The second season follows Susan Ryeland (Lesley Manville) and the imaginary Atticus Pünd (Tim McMullan) as they uncover a mystery.

Thrills inspired by Anthony Horowitz’s bestseller

The stellar cast and ingenious storylines constitute, according to producer Jill Green, a truly distinctive and entertaining take on the murder mystery genre. Although writer Anthony Horowitz expressed his joy at having such fun writing the scripts, a brilliant director and cast have brought them to life.

ALSO READ: Magpie Murders Season 1 review: A whodunit within a whodunit made extra special by Lesley Manville  

Additionally, Horowitz's bestselling book of the same name inspired the first trailer for the series, which unfolds scenes from the 2022 smash series Magpie Murders. Out of the nearly 5.5 million viewers of Magpie Murders, over 3.1 million have viewed the series online.

Moonflower Murders' plot

The resurgence of a murder that occurred eight years ago in a country hotel in Britain "disturbs" "Susan Ryeland's idyll in Crete" in the opening scene of the season 2 trailer. Former prima donna Susan Conway, a guest at the hotel, wrote a book based on her experiences there; Cecily Treherne, the hotel's operations assistant, eventually came to believe that this book led to the wrong guy's imprisonment. Cecily has vanished at this point. Is there any way for Susan to discover Cecily's whereabouts and the book's secret before time runs out?

Continuing with the Ryeland series, Horowitz writes Moonflower Murders as the second novel. Published in 2020, Moonflower Murders picks up where Magpie Murders left off: Susan and her long-term partner Andreas are now residents of Crete, having escaped the competitive publishing industry. After the events of the Magpie Murders altered her life, she is requested to return to London to solve a mystery connected to Alan Conway, the bestselling author of the Atticus Pünd mysteries.

US network Masterpiece expects the series to astonish and shock viewers.

Star-studded cast

Moonflower Murders features a stellar cast that includes Manville, McMullan, Conleth Hill, Pippa Bennett-Warner, and Daniel Mays.

With the help of Eleventh Hour Films and Jill Green as executive producers, Horowitz brought Moonflower Murders to life. Produced by Eleventh Hour Films and Salt Films for Masterpiece and BBC One, Moonflower Murders is released globally by Sony Pictures Television and PBS Distribution in North America.

ALSO READ: 8 gripping mystery web series on SonyLIV