A Sunshine Coast-based mystery drama TV series has been renewed for a second season.
According to Variety magazine, “Murder in a Small Town” is getting a season two. It premiered on Fox and Global in September last year.
The show, produced by Fox, is based on a book series by L.R. Wright who was dubbed the “Queen of Canadian crime fiction” by Chatelaine magazine.
Wright’s nine-book series follows RCMP staff sergeant Karl Alberg, who moves to Sechelt to recover from years of big-city police work wearing away at his psyche. However, he soon learns the small town has its own secrets, and he will need to use his world-class detective skills to solve murders in his coastal paradise.
The show features Sunshine Coast locations, particularly the town of Gibsons, as themselves, and many locations and shots will be instantly be familiar to Island and Sunshine Coast residents.
The first book, “The Suspect” published in 1985, is the only Canadian novel to ever win the Edgar Allen Poe Best Novel award (1986) from the Mystery Writers of America.
