Outlander star Lauren Lyle is taking centre stage in ITV's on-screen adaptation of Val McDermid's first novel. The new gritty police drama follows detective Karen Pirie as she reopens a cold case murder that’s been the subject of a provocative true crime podcast.
Karen is looking into the murder of teenage barmaid Rosie Duff after she was stabbed to death in 1995, and suspicion fell on the three male students who discovered her body.
Speaking to Marie Claire ahead of the show's premiere, Lauren said: "It felt so meaningful for the show to be seen through the lens of a woman. "A woman who knows what it means to walk home at night and not know if you’re going to get home safe.
To fight for this woman that the unimaginable happened to." Scottish actress Lauren is best known for portraying Marsali MacKimmie Fraser in the Starz series Outlander, but is taking on the titular role in the new drama based on McDermid's novel The Distant Echo.
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