Who KILLED the LIAR?

The murder of Liar’s serial rapist takes centre stage as Ioan Gruffudd and Joanne Froggatt return in the second run of the twisty thriller

- CAREN CLARK

There’s a chill in the air at a windswept Essex boatyard – and it’s not just the bracing weather. TV&Satellite Week is on set for the much-anticipated second series of ITV thriller Liar, watching a tense scene being filmed between two potential suspects for the murder of serial rapist Andrew Earlham.

The powerful drama gripped the nation in 2017 when viewers debated whether teacher Laura Nielson (Joanne Froggatt) or surgeon Andrew (Ioan Gruffudd) was lying about a rape accusation. But as the first series ended, Laura finally exposed evil Andrew, who went on the run from the police and was last seen with his throat slit on the marshes.

In the new run, by brothers Jack and Harry Williams, who created the original and whose other credits include The Missing, attention focuses on what happened after Andrew became a fugitive and how he met his death.

FLASHBACKS

‘We go back over the three weeks between Andrew disappearing and turning up dead to see who killed him,’ says Froggatt during a break in filming. ‘It shows how one person’s actions have an effect on many different lives.’