Sherlock star Andrew Scott has signed up to star in a new crime thriller, Steel County.

The film begins shooting in the US later this week.

Scott will play a small town truck driver who turns detective when a young boy is found dead in a sleepy part of Western Pennsylvania. His investigations turn into an obsession to prove the boy has been murdered, leading to harrowing consequences.

He’ll co-star alongside Bronagh Waugh and Denise Gough in the film which is being directed by Simon Fellows.