{"id":88679,"date":"2025-09-22T10:17:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T14:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/?p=88679"},"modified":"2025-09-22T10:17:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T14:17:14","slug":"anthony-horowitz-teases-gripping-new-bbc1-drama-nine-bodies-in-a-mexican-morgue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/anthony-horowitz-teases-gripping-new-bbc1-drama-nine-bodies-in-a-mexican-morgue\/88679\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthony Horowitz teases gripping new BBC1 drama Nine Bodies in a Mexican Morgue"},"content":{"rendered":"

Anthony Horowitz, the acclaimed writer behind Foyle\u2019s War<\/em> and Magpie Murders<\/em>, is back with a brand-new thriller for the BBC,\u00a0 and he promises it will be packed with twists. His latest creation, Nine Bodies in a Mexican Morgue<\/em>, lands this Saturday on BBC1 and BBC iPlayer.<\/p>\n

The six-part drama opens with a small aircraft carrying ten passengers crashing in the Mexican jungle. Nine of them survive. But as the days go on, the survivors begin to die one by one, and it becomes clear that someone among them is a killer.<\/p>\n

Horowitz explained the inspiration behind the show:<\/p>\n

\u201cIt often occurred to me that an airplane is a very interesting environment for a murder mystery. You could be sitting next to a stranger for hours \u2014 they might seem like a doctor, a teacher, an entrepreneur\u2026 or a murderer. Now imagine surviving a crash together, trapped in a hostile jungle with no food or water, only to realise one of those strangers is a psychopathic killer. What do you do next? That was the start of the idea.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

The series is told in flashbacks as the survivors battle hunger, heat, and mistrust, while slowly unravelling the secrets each passenger carries. The tension builds until the killer\u2019s identity, and the truth behind the deaths is finally revealed.<\/p>\n

The cast includes Eric McCormack, David Ajala, Lydia Wilson, Jan Le, Adam Long, Siobh\u00e1n McSweeney, Peter Gadiot, and \u00d3lafur Darri \u00d3lafsson.<\/p>\n

Horowitz has said he worked carefully to craft layered, surprising characters:<\/p>\n

\u201cEveryone had to have a story, but I wanted to avoid anything obvious. For instance, with Lisa and Travis, I made them MAGA supporters, but sympathetic ones. And with Sonja, the English photographer helping migrants at the border, I could bring in another side of today\u2019s political divisions. Everyone has a story to tell. Everyone has a secret to hide.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Alongside Nine Bodies in a Mexican Morgue<\/em>, the BBC has confirmed Marble Hall Murders<\/em>, the third and final installment in Horowitz\u2019s Magpie Murders<\/em> series. Lesley Manville will reprise her role as Susan Ryeland, the book editor turned amateur sleuth.<\/p>\n

With both projects, Horowitz is cementing his reputation as one of the UK\u2019s most inventive crime storytellers, and fans of tense, twist-filled mysteries look to be in for a gripping autumn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Anthony Horowitz, the acclaimed writer behind Foyle\u2019s War and Magpie Murders, is back with a brand-new thriller for the BBC,\u00a0\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":294,"featured_media":88680,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[32683],"class_list":["post-88679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-anthony-horowitz"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/294"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88679\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}