# The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair (2018)

> A struggling young writer risks his career and reputation when he investigates a murder tied to his famous mentor.

Canonical page: https://ember.film/tv/69725

## Facts

- Seasons: 1
- Episodes: 10
- Episode runtime: 46 min
- Status: Ended
- Genres: crime, drama, mystery
- Created by: Richard Levine, Lyn Greene
- Network: Sky Witness
- Cast: Patrick Dempsey, Don Harvey, Joshua Close, Kristine Froseth, Ryan Kiera Armstrong, Ben Schnetzer, Damon Wayans Jr., Kurt Fuller
- TMDB rating: 7.4/10
- IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7134194/

## Ember's analysis

- Pacing: brisk
- Intensity: strong
- Complexity: dense
- Violence: moderate
- Tone: brooding, wistful, melancholic, tense, atmospheric

## What critics say

Audiences rate the miniseries positively as a gripping, twisty murder mystery adapted from Joël Dicker's bestselling novel.

## Synopsis

The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair (2018) is an American-French limited series created by Richard Levine and Lyn Greene for Sky Witness, adapted from Joël Dicker's bestselling novel. Ben Schnetzer plays Marcus Goldman, a young novelist whose career stalls until he turns to his famous mentor, celebrated author Harry Quebert (Patrick Dempsey), after a body is found buried in the garden of Quebert's seaside Maine home. Damon Wayans Jr. stars as Sgt. Perry Gahalowood, a local detective whose investigation pushes Marcus deeper into a town that prefers its polite surfaces undisturbed. The engine of the story is Marcus's stubborn research, interviewing residents, rereading old letters and manuscripts, and chasing a decades-old disappearance while the police and the townspeople close ranks. Across ten episodes of a single continuing story, the show alternates a present-day inquiry with the summer that changed everyone, building a mystery that is less about a single culprit than about how literary ambition, loyalty and guilt tangle together. Its tone is brooding and wistful, with a coastal melancholy and a steady current of unease that suits viewers who enjoy a slow burn. Fans of Twin Peaks, Broadchurch and Mare of Easttown will find resonance in its small community secrets and its patient unravelling of a whodunit.

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