Easterbrook’s second wife, a key player in the story, is played by Kaya Scodelario ( Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales, The Maze Runner). Much Deeping has an inn, an inn that is home to three witches, and he figures that somehow they are connected.

Easterbrook decides to investigate himself, to beat the inspector to the answer, which takes him to the small town of Much Deeping. Why women are ending up dead found on the list, and why Easterbrook’s name was included, is the key mystery of this two-part series.Īs Easterbrook is hounded by the local police led by Sean Pertwee ( Gotham, Doctor Who) as Inspector Stanley Lejeune–who is investigating the string of deaths. Remember his name, because it is included last on a list found in the shoe of another dead woman. The series stars Rufus Sewell ( The Man in the High Castle, Zen, A Knight’s Tale) as Mark Easterbrook, a man of questionable character whose wife dies in the bathtub at the beginning of the story. The new series is Christie’s creepy tale The Pale Horse, a supernatural mystery from 1961, directed by Leonora Lonsdale (Beast). Screenwriter Sarah Phelps (EastEnders, Dublin Murders) is back with her next project, another adaptation of a well-known Agatha Christie work, a year from release of her first Amazon Studios project, The ABC Murders (reviewed here at borg), which starred John Malkovich and Rupert Grint.

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