SEARCHING for justice

Ruth Wilson and Dame Emma Thompson team up to find a missing child in a new thriller from the author of Slow Horses

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Calling all fans of Slow Horses! Author Mick Herron is swapping MI5 outcasts for nosy neighbours as another of his acclaimed novels gets the Apple TV treatment. Set in a sleepy Oxford suburb, Down Cemetery Road is an eight-part, razor-sharp thriller based on Herron's 2003 book of the same name. Adapted by Slow Horses writer Morwenna Banks, it follows art restorer Sarah Trafford (His Dark Materials’ Ruth Wilson), whose uneventful, ordinary life is upended when a neighbour's house explodes during her dinner party. When Sarah learns that a five-year-old girl, Dinah Singleton, has gone missing in the blast, she becomes obsessed with finding her and hires acerbic, reluctant private investigator Zoë Boehm (Oscar-winning star of Sense and Sensibility, Dame Emma Thompson) to help. As the two women probe Oxford's secret-laden streets, they unravel a far-reaching conspiracy involving military and government cover-ups, and quickly become targets themselves. TV&Satellite Week arranged a virtual chat with Thompson, 66, and Wilson, 43, to dig further into the details...

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