'The Marlow Murder Club' Digs Into the Death of Sir Peter Bailey in Season 2 Premiere

What a wonderful late-summer treat to dip back into a mystery with some of the most charming amateur detectives on Masterpiece. Judith Potts (Samantha Bond), Becks (Cora Horgan), and Suzie (Jo Martin), aka The Marlow Murder Club, are back on the case for Season 2 in "Death Comes To Marlow, Part 1," which makes me feel a lot better about the crime rate in their sleepy English village.

It starts, as maybe all late summer mysteries should, with a garden party celebrating the marriage of Sir Peter Bailey (James Wilby) to his nurse, Jenny (Yuna Shin). Sir Peter invites Judith and the girls because he fears that something terrible is going to happen at the party, as his children and ex-wife are not pleased about the upcoming nuptials.

Sir Peter could not have predicted that the terrible event was his own death. The excitement kicks up at the party when Peter's son Tristam (Tom Stourton) arrives. He's expressed his concerns about the marriage in the past, which immediately upsets Jenny when he shows up. Sir Peter confronts his son but ultimately decides to follow his sobbing wife back to the house while Tristam heads to the party for more champagne.