BBC's Moonflower Murders grips viewers with Lesley Manville's return

On Saturday night, BBC Moonflower Murders viewers were hooked with the storyline and rapidly took to societal media to stock their thoughts connected the caller series.

Saturday nighttime saw BBC viewers tuning successful for the premiere of Moonflower Murders, the much-anticipated sequel to Magpie Murders.

Fans were delighted arsenic Lesley Manville reprised her relation arsenic detective Susan Ryeland connected Saturday evening. However, her beingness has taken a antithetic crook since viewers past saw her.

No longer an editor, she's present managing a quaint edifice successful Crete, though it's evident that Susan isn't wholly content.

The caller bid begins with a wedding acceptable successful the picturesque English countryside earlier we drawback up with Susan's caller life. The celebrations are abruptly interrupted erstwhile a housekeeper, hands smeared with blood, disrupts the speeches.

The shocking revelation of a execution sets the tone, and the communicative fast-forwards 8 years to picture Susan's far-from-tranquil existence, reports Lancs Live.

She receives a sojourn from the parents of the bride featured astatine the commencement of the episode, who disclose their daughter's disappearance.

Their girl had work a execution enigma loosely based connected the transgression committed connected her wedding day. Convinced that the incorrect idiosyncratic was apprehended aft noticing thing peculiar successful the book, she disappears.

Given that Susan edited the novel, the parents judge she mightiness beryllium capable to place the aforesaid hint Cecily recovered successful the book, starring them to her whereabouts and her abductor.

This premise results successful the amusement oscillating betwixt scenes from the publication unfolding successful Susan's caput and her real-life attempts to unravel the mystery.

As the play unfolded, fans flocked to Twitter to heap praise for histrion Lesley Manville.

One spectator exclaimed: "Anything Lesley Manville is successful does beryllium perfectly superb the pistillate is simply a genius."

Another chimed in: "I truly similar Lesley Manville, she's ever antithetic successful the things I've seen her in. Loved her successful Mum."

A 3rd instrumentality remarked: "Lesley Manville ever looks truthful good."

"Loved #MagpieMurders tbf, immoderate publication Lesley Manville @TeamLManville chooses is bully and ever enhanced by her," different instrumentality tweeted.

Someone other commented: "The infinitesimal I saw starring Leslie Manville and Daniel Mays l knew I would bask it. Two unthinkable quality actors. A transgression bid done the bully aged fashioned mode and each the amended for it."

Responding to a tweet, different said: "Yeah I've seen #LesleyManville successful astir 8 antithetic things the past twelvemonth oregon truthful and she's been fabulously antithetic successful them each #MoonflowerMurders".

Adapted from Anthony Horowitz's novel, the bid has generated excitement, with Horowitz himself commenting: "I've been watching the filming of Moonflower Murders with joy.

"We're backmost with the aforesaid cast, including Lesley Manville, Tim McMullan and Danny Mays but this clip we've got a full caller container of tricks to contiguous arsenic literate exertion Susan Ryeland untangles different publication wrong a publication and different bid of unfathomable murders. I can't hold to amusement it to our audience."

The teaser for the upcoming occurrence reveals a gripping plot: "Susan re-reads Atticus Pund Takes the Case, and recalls what inspired Alan Conway to constitute it - the infinitesimal helium discovered that Frank Parris had been murdered successful the precise aforesaid Suffolk edifice from which Cecily Treherne has gone missing".

Moonflower Murders is disposable to ticker connected BBC iPlayer.