Noted in Passing

• Jodie Foster, whose last regular TV series role was as Addie Loggins in ABC’s short-lived movie spin-off, Paper Moon (1974-1975), has been signed to star in the third version of True Detective, subtitled Night Country. As In Reference to Murder reports,

The story centers on Detectives Liz Danvers (Foster) and Evangeline Navarro who are looking to solve the case of six men who operate the Tsalal Arctic Research Station and vanish without a trace when the long winter night falls in Ennis, Alaska. The detective duo will have to confront the darkness they carry in themselves and dig into the haunted truths that lie buried under the eternal ice.

True Detective, which was created and written by Nic Pizzolatto, ran for three seasons between 2014 and 2019. The third and most recent season, set in the Ozarks, aired on HBO in 2019 and starred Mahershala Ali and Stephen Dorff.

• Today is Memorial Day here in the United States. Mystery Fanfare’s Janet Rudolph is celebrating it with updated lists of Memorial Day mysteries and crime fiction that incorporates barbecuing, an activity in which Americans often engage on this holiday.

• I’ve already mentioned that Season 8 of Endeavour will premiere as part of PBS-TV’s Masterpiece series on Sunday, June 19. But I failed to point out, too, that the seventh season of Grantchester, starring Robson Green and Tom Brittney, will return to Masterpiece with half a dozen new episodes, beginning on Sunday, July 10. (Watch a trailer here.) Also worth remembering is that the Victorian-era whodunit Miss Scarlet and the Duke, featuring Kate Phillips and Stuart Martin, is set to kick off its Season 2, six-episode run in the States on Sunday, October 16. (The trailer can be enjoyed here.) Incidentally, while American boob-tubers will have to wait until the fall for Miss Scarlet, it is scheduled to debut in Britain on June 14.

• And two months ago, I noted that Madison Books, the Seattle neighborhood shop at which I help out a couple of days each week, had been nominated for this year’s Publishers Weekly Bookstore of the Year award. Well, the winner was announced last week … and it was one of the other five finalists—The Raven Book Store in Lawrence, Kansas, to be specific. Madison Books manager James Crossley tries to put the best face on this turn of events in his latest newsletter.