Karen Pirie, Season 2 News

Good news! Karen Pirie, Season 2, has started filming in Scotland. It will be a three episode season based on Val McDermid's A Darker Domain. Lauren Lyle returns as Karen Pirie. 

Lauren Lyle's portrayal of Karen Pirie has received critical acclaim. She was awarded the Best Actress in Television and Audience Award for Favorite Scot on Screen at BAFTA Scotland.

Plot summary of Season 2 (A Darker Domain): In 1984, when young Catriona Grant, heiress to the Grant oil fortune, is kidnapped at gunpoint with her young son, it is assumed that the motivation is political. The huge investigation creates a press storm, but when the culprits unexpectedly fall silent, the case runs cold and Catriona and her son are never seen again. Forty years later, when a man’s body is discovered, Pirie is assigned to reopen the case in complete secrecy.

Karen Pirie, Season 1, is available on BritBox. 

KARIN PIRIE, Season 2 news

Great news! ITV has commissioned series 2 of Karen Pirie, starring Lauren Lyle and adapted by Emer Kenny. The second series is based on Val McDermid’s A Darker Domain, and produced by World Productions. In the second season, Karen reopens the investigation into the unsolved kidnap of a wealthy young heiress and her baby son back in 1985.

I loved Season One. Go, Val! So happy to see there will be a second series, and hopefully more!
 
Emer Kenny will return to write and executive produce the episodes along with Scottish writer Gillian Roger Park. Karen Pirie will premiere on ITV1 and ITVX in the UK. Season One is available on Britbox in the US, so probably Season 2 will air there, as well.

Filming will begin in Scotland in early 2024 and details of further casting and key production personnel will be advised in the coming months. Oh my. That's a long way off, but still....Of course, you can always read the novel by Val McDermid and the others in the series now.