Crime Drama Fans Are Losing Sleep Over This New Dark, Twisted Six-Part Mystery Being Hailed as Rivaling True Detective

A Haunting Family Nightmare Packed with Mind-Bending Twists and a Career-Defining Alicia Silverstone Performance You’ll Never See Coming”! Crime drama lovers, get ready for your next obsession — this is the dark, twisted mystery that’s keeping viewers up all night.

Across six nail-biting episodes, a brilliant Los Angeles lawyer’s life is shattered when a cryptic letter from her long-estranged father drags her into a dangerous hunt for the truth about his disappearance.

What begins as a search for answers quickly spirals into a chilling family nightmare, where every clue uncovers deeper betrayals, every ally could be an enemy, and nothing is as it seems.

Hailed as rivaling True Detective and Mare of Easttown, this haunting thriller weaves together mind-bending twists, shocking revelations, and a powerhouse lead performance that will grip you until the very last second — and change the way you watch crime dramas forever.

Calling all crime drama fans! If you’re looking for a new mystery series, then Irish Blood might be one to add to your watchlist.

Starring Clueless actress Alicia Silverstone, the “compelling” six-parter follows high-flying Los Angeles divorce lawyer, Fiona Sharpe, who receives a letter from her estranged father and sets out to uncover the mystery of his disappearance.

What is Irish Blood about?

Filmed in and around Dublin, County Wicklow, Bray, and the Causeway coast in Northern Ireland, the series focuses on Fiona, whose path in life is “earmarked by her father, Declan, who seemingly abandoned her and her mother on her tenth birthday”.

It continues: “After years of channelling anger toward him, to the benefit of her litigious clients, a message from her father sends her to Ireland.

There she learns key truths about her father as well as a family that doesn’t know she exists, and, moreover, that the story of abandonment that has shaped her entire life – was a lie.

A lie intended to protect her and her mother from her father’s shady business dealings.

Fiona resolves to uncover the full truth about her father and reconnect with the parent she only thought she knew.”.

Leading star Alicia teased the story as “unpredictable”.

The actress said in a statement: “Irish Blood is the story of a woman discovering herself and confronting her past after travelling abroad unexpectedly.I love how unpredictable the storytelling feels and the combination of drama, humour and suspense my character experiences.”.

Who stars in Irish Blood?

Joining Alicia as series regulars are Wendy Crewson (We Were Liars, Tracker), Jason O’Mara (The Man In The High Castle, The Good Wife), Dearbhla Molloy (Wild Mountain Thyme), Simone Kirby (His Dark Materials), Ruth Codd (The Fall of the House of Usher) and Leonardo Taiwo (Wheel of Time, Ant-Man & The Wasp).

How to watch Irish Blood

Irish Blood premieres on Acorn TV on Monday, 11 August, with the first two episodes. The remaining episodes will be released weekly.