ITV’s new crime drama Karen Pirie follows the titular Scottish detective, who’s the literary creation of acclaimed crime writer Val McDermid. Based on the novel The Distant Echo, the series stars Outlander’s Lauren Lyle as the twenty-something DI Karen Pirie, who’s tasked with tackling cold cases. Here, she tells us more…
What’s it like to play the latest in a long line of TV detectives?
There aren’t many female detectives on TV, and the ones that do exist are all much older. I didn’t realise until I started doing all my research that you could be this young in that job, I never thought I’d