‘Sophisticated’ 8-part mystery hailed as a ‘breathless whodunnit’ is your next TV obsession

The eight-part series, set in Ireland, follows two seemingly unrelated murder investigations – each led by a different detective from the Dublin Murder Squad, whose personal lives become entangled with their cases.

The first storyline, adapted from In the Woods, follows Detective Rob Reilly (Killian Scott) and his partner Detective Cassie Maddox (Sarah Greene) as they investigate the murder of a 13-year-old girl in the woods. 

The case immediately reopens old wounds for Rob who, as a child, was the sole survivor of a traumatic incident in the same woods, where two other children vanished and were never found. 

Rob’s repressed memories and the potential connection to his own past create intense psychological tension throughout the investigation.

The second storyline, adapted from The Likeness, sees Cassie Maddox uncover the murder of Lexie Madison – a woman who looks exactly like Cassie and who has been living under an alias Cassie once used.

Cassie is then pulled into a dangerous undercover operation, posing as the deceased woman to infiltrate a group of enigmatic university students,  in order to uncover the truth.

Leading the cast are Killian Scott (Love/Hate) as Detective Rob Reilly and Sarah Greene (Normal People) as Detective Cassie Maddox.

Supporting cast members also include Tom Vaughan-Lawlor as Detective Frank Mackey, Conleth Hill as Superintendent O’Kelly, Leah McNamara as Rosalind Devlin and Peter McDonald as Jonathan Devlin.

Other names making up the cast are Eugene O’Hare as Detective Quigley, Moe Dunford as Sam O’Neill and Amy Macken as Katy/Jessica Devlin.

Hailed by The Guardian as “a breathless whodunnit with more dread by the minute”, Dublin Murders is packed with tension and intrigue. 

In its four-star review, the publication praised the series as “a sophisticated and slickly satisfying operation”.

Meanwhile, RadioTimes commended the show’s refusal to tie up every loose end, noting: “While we’re given motives and confessions and full run-downs of how the killings were carried out, some of the larger mysteries are left unexplained. And that’s absolutely OK.”

Dublin Murders is available to stream on Disney+ and BBC iPlayer now.