Apple TV has added a dozen new cast members to the second season of Down Cemetery Road, based on Mick Herron's novels The Last Voice You Hear and Smoke and Whispers, which are part of his Oxford book series, Deadline reported. Herron is also the author of the novels that have been adapted into the popular Slow Horses TV series.
Down Cemetery Road season 2 cast additions include Martin Clunes (Doc Martin), Fionn Whitehead (Dunkirk), Paterson Joseph (Wonka), Aasiya Shah (Bait), Dimitri Leonidas (Foundation), Paul Chahidi (This Country), Liz White (The Long Shadow), Amanda Abbington (Sherlock), Jeff Rawle (Drop the Dead Donkey), Ashley McGuire (Slow Horses), Amber Grappy (One Day), and Yali Topol Margalith (Alice and Steve). Emma Thompson is exec producer and stars as Zoë Boehm opposite Ruth Wilson as Sarah Tucker. Morwenna Banks (Slow Horses) is returning as lead writer and executive producer.
The logline for Down Cemetery Road's second season notes: "After a woman falls in front of a train Zoë [Thompson] is called in to investigate, but this seemingly simple case soon upends her life as she and Sarah [Wilson] find themselves navigating the dark side of the glamorous world of art and antiquities. Matters take a deadly turn when they stumble into the path of a brutal serial killer who will stop at nothing to cover up his crimes."