Karen Pirie
DramaCrime2022Rated 7.5
Karen Pirie, a young detective posted to a Scottish Historic Cases Unit, gets a 1996 barmaid murder that a true crime podcast has revived, and the former student suspects, now respectable adults, resist her questions.
Starring Lauren Lyle, Emer Kenny, Chris Jenks
Next season
Season 3announced, no date yet
All at once, 6 episodes, last aired Sun, 20 Jul 2025
Is it for me?
Tartan noir for people who want a mystery with a sense of humour and a detective who sounds like a colleague. Lauren Lyle plays Karen as an ordinary professional with a sharp tongue, not a haunted genius. The story keeps cutting back to the 1990s student years, so the old case gets filled in while she works the present one.
Before you start
Each episode runs about 90 minutes and plays like its own film, and every series adapts a different book with a new case.
2 seasons, 6 episodes, 89 min each, about 9 hours so far
This show
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Karen Pirie, a young detective posted to a Scottish Historic Cases Unit, gets a 1996 barmaid murder that a true crime podcast has revived, and the former student suspects, now respectable adults, resist her questions.
Starring Lauren Lyle, Emer Kenny, Chris Jenks
Is it for me?
Tartan noir for people who want a mystery with a sense of humour and a detective who sounds like a colleague. Lauren Lyle plays Karen as an ordinary professional with a sharp tongue, not a haunted genius. The story keeps cutting back to the 1990s student years, so the old case gets filled in while she works the present one.
Before you start
Each episode runs about 90 minutes and plays like its own film, and every series adapts a different book with a new case.
2 seasons, 6 episodes, 89 min each, about 9 hours so far
Season 3: nothing to list until it's dated
- E01Episode 1Aired Sun 25 Sept
- E02Episode 2Aired Sun 25 Sept
- E03Episode 3Aired Sun 25 Sept
- S01E01Episode 125 Sept 2022
- S01E02Episode 225 Sept 2022
- S01E03Episode 325 Sept 2022