
Strike begins to unpick the connections that lie between these two families, which takes us primarily into the world of politics.īut there are two ends of the political spectrum at play. He’s haunted by a memory from his childhood when he witnessed a little girl being strangled in ritualistic fashion, then buried behind his father’s cottage.

Billy, the younger of the two, is very mentally unwell, and he shows up unannounced at Strike’s office in the midst of a real emotional crisis. There are two brothers: Jimmy and Billy Knight. There’s another family tied to them, the Knight family, and it’s through them that Strike ends up with the Chiswells. They have a grand, rambling estate and a London home. On the one hand, you have the Chiswell family, headed up by a classic Shires Tory, a ‘pater familias’ who has four children, one of whom died in the Iraq war. “Lethal White is the story of Strike’s investigation into two families, which lead him quite deep into the past. Rowling, Tom Edge and Neil Blair, and produced by Jackie Larkin. It is executive produced by Ruth Kenley-Letts, J.K. Strike – Lethal White is a four-part mini-series produced by Brontë Film and Television. Starring a stunning cast including Tom Burke, Holliday Grainger, Kerr Logan, Natasha O’Keeffe, Sophie Winkleman, Joseph Quinn, Nick Blood, Natalie Gumede and Robert Glenister. Fans of the series will want to know about any developments in Strike’s relationship with Robin, something that Lethal White builds up through Robin’s flailing new marriage and Cormoran’s own messy love life. However, the mystery of how these two cases connect is not the only source of driving tension. The other, the case of a government minister blackmailed by the same man’s brother. The most recent installation of this dark, gritty crime drama follows two concurrent mysteries: one the case of a man suffering from psychosis, desperate to find answers about a girl he saw strangled years ago.

The previous 3 mini-series had aired on Cinemax, but will also be moving to HBO.
