According to The Hollywood Reporter, Fox has renewed drama series Murder in Small Town for a third season. The series starring Rossif Sutherland (Orphan: First Kill, Hyena Road) and Kristin Kreuk (Beaty & The Beast, Burden of Truth) will get a third season on Fox in 2026-27. The network also announced that hat Peter Gallagher (Grace and Frankie, The O.C.) will join the cast for the coming season.
As per The Hollywood Reporter, Murder in Small Town joins fellow dramas Doc and Memory of a Killer, and the hour-long dramedy Best Medicine, for the networks’ 2025-26 season. Fox will unveil its slate for 2026-27 at its upfront presentation on May 11.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, the series is based on a novel by L.R. Wright (Sleep While I Sing, Strangers Among Us) and stars Sutherland as Karl Alberg, a former big-city detective who moves to a small coastal town of Gibsons to seek respite. The town is full of secrets as well as dead bodies that have a strange way of showing up. Kreuk plays Cassandra Lee, a librarian who becomes both Karl’s love interest
“We love bringing this cozy and delightful mystery to Fox fans, and we’re thrilled Murder in a Small Town has continued to resonate with our audience,” said Brooke Bowman, executive vp drama programming and development at Fox via The Hollywood Reporter. “We look forward to continuing our collaboration with Sepia Films and Future Shack on Season Three, alongside our exceptional cast led by Rossif Sutherland and Kristin Kreuk and soon to include the incomparable talent of Peter Gallagher as their newest adversary.”
As per The Hollywood Reporter, Gallagher will play Rod Finlayson in the third season of the series, described as “a charismatic, uber-independent, capable yet unreliable figure, whose arrival at the Gibsons marina on his beloved boat sets up a sequence of upheavals that Alberg and Cassandra will have to grapple with.”
Murder in a Small Town is available to stream on Hulu.