A Taste For Murder | Preview (ITV1)

Set amidst the steep cliffs and fast tides of Capri, A Taste for Murder features classic Italian cuisine as the main ingredient to each episode’s central murder mystery, revealing the power of food to foster connection, community, and healing after devastating loss.

Warren Brown (The Responder, Trigger Point, Ten Pound Poms) stars as DCI Joe Mottram, a star detective with the Metropolitan police. After a personal tragedy, he retreats to Capri with his daughter to stay with his Italian in-laws for the summer. Unsure how to face his own grief, let alone help heal his daughter’s broken heart, he quickly becomes immersed in the local murder cases on the island.

BAFTA winner Phyllis Logan (Downton Abbey) stars as Elena Da Vinale, the witty, fiercely loyal, loving matriarch of the family, front-of-house manager of the family restaurant, and mother to DCI Joe’s late wife.

Cristiana Dell’Anna (Cabrini, Gomorrah) is Inspector Lara Sarrancino, an

ambitious and no-nonsense detective with the State Police in Naples. Beau Gadsdon (The Crown) is Angelica, Joe’s bright and knife-sharp teenage daughter from South London. Still traumatized by her mother’s sudden death, she distances from her father and seeks escape in Capri.

Rounding out the principal cast are Urbano Barberini (Casino Royale) as

Gennaro Da Vinale, the gregarious patriarch of the Da Vinale family and

legendary local chef; Alessandro Fella (Barbarians 2) as Luca Da Vinale,

Gennaro's charming but ne'er-do-well nephew; Gaia Scodellaro (The Equalizer 3) as Daria, a local divorcee who works in the restaurant kitchen and Alessandro Bedetti (Those About to Die) as Daniele, a young lothario who falls in with Angelica and offers to show her the island.

A Taste for Murder is created and written by Matt Baker (Patience, Professor T, Hotel Portofino). The series is directed by Jon Jones (Hotel Portofino, Whitstable Pearl, Alex Rider) and produced by Megan Ott (House of the Dragon). 

A Taste For Murder begins Wednesday 29th April at 9pm on ITV1.