‘Murder in a Small Town’ Season 2 Trailer, Guest Stars Revealed

For those Murder in a Small Town fans who’ve been waiting for another television trip to Gibsons, you’re in luck: The detective procedural will soon return for a second season.

New clues about what we’ll find when the show returns are starting to come through, including a list of the season’s guest stars and the first teaser trailer (embedded above).

Read on to find out everything we know so far about Murder in a Small Town Season 2.

When will Murder in a Small Town Season 2 premiere?

Murder in a Small Town‘s Season 2 premiere will air on Tuesday, September 23 at 8/7c.

Who will star in Murder in a Small Town Season 2?

Fans will see the return of the show’s leads, Rossif Sutherland as Karl Alberg and Kristin Kreuk as Cassandra Lee. Fox also confirmed Marcia Gay Harden also joins as a series regular in Season 2, playing Mayor Christie Holman, who is both a revered politician and a doctor and will use competing priorities of the community to advance her own agenda.

Fans can also expect the return of Dakota Guppy as Holly, Karl’s daughter, as executive producer Jeff Wachtel teased to TV Insider that there’s a specific upcoming arc they plan to introduce with her: “Second season, we’re gonna have the opportunity to go deeper. The situation with Karl’s mom and his dad, Holly starts to ask, ‘Well, what’s up with Dad?’ quite early. They’re at an auction … and one of mom’s paintings [is for sale],” he said.

Wachtel also revealed there are plans to delve deeper into the supporting characters, like Sid (Aaron Douglas) and Isabella (Savonna Spracklin).

Plus, Noah Reid will reprise his role as Tommy Cummins, the former art teacher-turned-prisoner whose crimes were first exposed in Season 1.

This seasons other guest stars include:

• Camryn Manheim as Jocelyn Tait, who’s described as “an iron-tough, working-class matriarch who has lived her life in the shadow of a family feud and comes to Gibsons for a Romeo & Juliet-style wedding;
• Tyler Posey as Ryan, “a former party boy-turned-holistic health aficionado” trying to escape his past;
• Jamie Chung as Lanni Soo, a prosecutor who’s “career-driven and straight-forward” and brings a case to Karl;
• Sara Canning as Mackenzie Rankin, who organizes a memorial after the death of her sister.

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What else will happen in Season 2?

While Gibsons will still be the eponymous town of the show, expect the horizons to broaden just a bit in Season 2, as Wachtel teased, “Alberg’s purview will expand. It’s natural. He’s very competent and ought to get more responsibility. In the next season, he has a much broader purview, but there’s new staff, there are new people and other ambitions that come up.”

He also previewed a “season-long mystery” that will be in play throughout the next season that “will involve more than one killing” and will feature Cassandra tracking the common threads of the crimes. “There is going to be a little bit of a, ‘Wait, this one and this one, which are unsolved over the last 10 years, kind of tie together,’ and it’s a bit of a surprise who the baddie is,” Wachtel said.

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Fans can also expect to see some new types of tension between Karl and Cassandra following their makeup kiss in the Season 1 finale. “They definitely get deeper and more committed. She’s running for councilwoman,” he said. “If she were to win that election, that might put her professionally at odds with her boyfriend. We’re going to introduce a new character who’s a bit of an antagonist, who’s a mayor in the town, who’s a bit of a stir-upper of things… So they’re both highly opinionated people and very committed to their vision of betterment of the world, which is going to bring them up against each other. But most of the issues I think that we’re going to be looking at in Season 2 are not, ‘Do I love you?’ issues, but more, ‘This is how I see the world.'”

The official logline for Season 2 reads, “In the second season, Karl’s jurisdiction expands, and he has to contend with an increased caseload and limited resources, investigating cases like a body found at a local wedding between members of two feuding families; a double kidnapping that may mask an even bigger crime; a pop star who retreated to Gibsons for a quiet vacation only to be followed by a dangerous stalker; and many more. ”

Murder in a Small Town, Season 2 premiere, September 23, 8/7c, Fox