Airdate: Queens of Mystery

UK drama Queens of Mystery will have its Australian premiere streaming at Acorn TV in early December.

The 6 part series stars starring Olivia Vinall as Matilda Stone, a young detective who has been assigned to her hometown village, where she is reunited with her three crime novelist aunts Cat, Beth, and Jane, played by Julie Graham, Sarah Woodward, and Siobhan Redmond.

This aired in the UK in April.

At twenty-seven, Matilda Stone (Olivia Vinall) has just made it to the rank of Detective Sergeant. She’s happy to return home to the picturesque town of Wildemarsh, to be reunited with aunts Beth (Sarah Woodward), Cat (Julie Graham) and Jane Stone (Siobhan Redmond), and to live at ‘Murder Ink’, Jane’s bookshop, where she will be staying for the foreseeable future. But the bucolic Marsh Valley turns out to be a place where murder is far more frequent than you’d imagine. And Matilda’s aunts — smart women who’ve made a living out of crime fiction themselves — are completely fascinated by Matilda’s occupation, and just bursting to get out there and give her a helping hand. Exactly what Matilda doesn’t want them to do.

Working alongside her colleague P.C. Terry Foster (Michael Elcock), and under the lugubrious gaze of her by-the-book boss, Inspector Thorne (Martin Trenaman), much of Matilda’s time is spent fending off the intrusions of her aunts, who conspire to help solve her cases in their own unique way – and keep setting her up on blind dates, when all she longs for is the embrace of the handsome local GP – and resident pathologist – Dr Daniel Lynch (Andrew Leung). And there’s another side to Queens of Mystery. Matilda’s mother and aunts’ sister, Eleanor, disappeared when Matilda was three. Nobody knows what happened, why she left, or whether she’s dead or alive. Matilda was brought up by Beth, Cat and Jane until she was 18, when she left to become a cadet in the police force. Now she’s a seasoned detective it’s only a matter of time before she’ll start asking questions and investigating her mother’s disappearance. And we’ll discover fairly quickly that Matilda’s aunts do know some things about Eleanor – things they have sworn never to tell… Matilda included.

Beth, Cat and Jane have always been devoted to Matilda, but the truth of Eleanor’s disappearance will remain elusive… This is the mystery that Matilda must solve, piece by piece, series by series, with her aunts’ help or without it. But meanwhile, it seems that in the Marsh Valley, there will always be murders to solve.

Monday, 2nd December on Acorn TV.