Karen Pirie season 2 cast as Netflix stars join ITV drama
Karen Pirie is making her comeback to television screens for a second series of the ITV detective drama, with fresh faces joining the cast.
The programme initially premiered in 2022, featuring Outlander star Lauren Lyle as the intrepid Scottish detective Karen Pirie.
Drawing from Val McDermid's second Inspector Karen Pirie novel, A Darker Domain, the sophomore series will be broadcast across three episodes.
The official synopsis reveals: "After her bittersweet success in series one, Karen has been promoted to Detective Inspector and seemingly given the authority she has long been fighting for.
"Just as she's getting into the swing of her powerful new role, she is assigned an infamous unsolved case that will put her under intense scrutiny; from her boss, from the media, and ultimately, from sinister forces that would rather the past stayed in the past," reports the Express.
Karen Pirie series two cast:
Lauren Lyle (Outlander) plays Karen Pirie
Chris Jenks (Sex Education) returns as DC Jason 'Mint' Murray
Zach Wyatt (Timestalker) as DS Phil Parhatka
Steve John Shepherd (EastEnders) as DCS LEes
Emer Kenny (EastEnders) as River Wilde
Rakhee Thakrar (Sex Education) as Bel Richmond
Saskia Ashdown (Six Four) joins as newcomer DC Isla Stark
James Cosmo (Braveheart) as Sir Broderick Grant, the father of victim Catriona
Frances Tomelty (Inspector Morse) as Broderick's ex-wife Mary
John Michie (Holby City) as Fergus Sinclair, the father of Catriona's son Adam
Julia Brown (World on Fire) as Catriona Grant
Mark Rowley (One Day) as Mick
Kat Ronney (Dinosaur) as Bonnie
Conor Berry (Schemers) as Andy
Stuart Campbell (The Winter King) as Kevin
The cast also includes Jamie Michie, Madeleine Worrall, Jack Stewart, Thoren Ferguson, and Helen Katamba.
The historical case explored in series two centres on the 1984 abduction of captivating oil fortune heiress, Catriona Grant, along with her two-year-old son Adam.
The pair were snatched at gunpoint from outside a chip shop in Fife, vanishing without trace despite widespread media attention.
Following the discovery of a man's remains connected to the initial abduction - the first breakthrough in decades - Karen and her colleagues face one of their most formidable investigations yet.
"As Karen delves deeper into what happened in the autumn of 1984, political grudges and painful secrets reveal themselves, and it soon becomes clear... the past is far from dead," the synopsis teases.
Karen Pirie season 2 will air on Sunday, July 20, with the first episode premiering at 8pm on ITV1.
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