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Highly anticipated murder mystery series, Murder Before Evensong, the six-episode drama based on the Sunday Times best-selling first novel by the Reverend Richard Coles.

Starring Matthew Lewis, Murder Before Evensong is based on the first novel in the best-selling series, the Canon Clement Mysteries, by British author the Reverend Richard Coles, and is set in 1980’s England. Matthew Lewis stars as Canon Daniel Clement, the Rector of Champton, who finds himself unexpectedly entangled in a murder case when a dead body turns up in the church.

Daniel shares Champton rectory with his widowed mother Audrey (Amanda Redman, New Tricks) – and his two dachshunds, Cosmo and Hilda. When Daniel announces a plan to modernize the church, the parish is suddenly divided.

And then a body is found dead at the back of the church. As the police move in and the bodies start piling up, Daniel is the only one who can try and keep his fractured community together… and catch a killer.

The cast also consists of Amit Shah (Happy Valley) as DS Neil Vanloo, Adam James (The Day of the Jackal) as Bernard De Floures Meghan Treadway (One Day) as Honor De Floures, Alexander Delamain as Alex De Floures, Marion Bailey (The Crown) as Kath, Amanda Hadingue (Kaos) as Dora, Tamzin Outhwaite (The Wives) as Stella Harper, Francis Magee (Kin) as Edgy, and Nina Toussaint-White (Showtrial) as Jane Thwaite.

In the first episode, Canon Daniel Clement, introverted Rector of Champton, has his life turned upside-down when his difficult mother Audrey arrives unannounced. And Daniel upsets the applecart himself by proposing the installation of a lavatory in the church, to widespread consternation.

But a more serious challenge lies in wait for Daniel when he stumbles upon the body of his parishioner, Anthony Bowness, cousin of Lord de Floures, who was researching Champton’s history during the war. Daniel is forced to delve under the veneer of village life, questioning who he can trust, and, when threats are made against him, whether he himself was the intended murder victim.

Executive Producers are Radford Neville and the Reverend Richard Coles for The

Murder Before Evensong begin Tuesday 7th October at 9pm on 5.