(Sarah
Woodward, Olivia Vinall, Siobhan Redmond & Julie Graham)
Tuesday, January 21 at 20h00 sees the start
of a brand new six-part series on ITV Choice called Queens of Mystery.
Created by Doc Martin writer Julian
Unthank, this British comedy-drama murder-mystery series stars Olivia Vinall (The Woman in White) as Matilda Stone, a
perennially single female detective who has been assigned to the constabulary
in her fictional hometown village of Wildemarsh.
There, she is reunited with her three crime
novelist aunts Cat, Beth, and Jane, played by Julie Graham (The Bletchley Circle), Sarah Woodward (The Politician's Husband) and Siobhan
Redmond (Alfresco), who help her
solve whodunit style murders in the picturesque English village
But no matter how many cases they are able
to crack, the unsolved mystery that haunts them all is that of Matilda's
mother's disappearance. Between investigating murders from the curious to the
bizarre and writing their own renowned novels, the three aunts also attempt to
help their perennially single niece find love.
"I think first of all, it's
quintessentially British," says Graham, when asked how she would describe
the series. "Obviously we all take it desperately seriously, but it's
quite tongue in cheek, and it's quite knowing and slightly heightened because
of the stories. It's set in a very small village where probably not many people
would be murderers normally."
Graham says the script has "got a lot
of panache": "There are a lot of very funny moments. And, you know,
there are a lot of dark moments and we sort of play up to that. So that's the
way I would describe it. It's very British in that murder-mystery Agatha
Christie tradition."
Writing for the TV Insider, John Griffiths
described the series thus: "So you've already binged Murder, She Wrote? Pour a cup of tea and settle in with this
delightful British mystery series, which has the colourful quirkiness of cult
hit Pushing Daisies and a splash of
cheekiness à la Absolutely Fabulous."
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