“Murder Before Evensong,” AcornTV’s new mystery series premiering Monday, stars an Anglican cleric as its unlikely sleuth.

That would be Matthew Lewis (the Harry Potter series’ Neville Longbottom) as Canon Daniel Clement, the rector in picturesque Champton. He becomes an amateur detective when he finds a parishioner in his church no longer among the living, thanks to a smashed skull.

“Evensong” is set in the mid-’80s and adapted from British author Rev. Richard Coles’ bestselling Canon Clement Mysteries series.

Before he was a man of God, Coles was a famous UK queer pop star with Bronski Beat and the Communards. “Evensong” is the first of his books to be adapted for a series.

“It’s a terrific show, with so much depth with the characters,” Lewis, 36, said in a Zoom interview from London

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