Deadline is reporting that Sarah Minnich has signed up for a recurring role in the upcoming USA Network crime anthology series Briarpatch.
Briarpatch is based on the Ross Thomas novel of the same name. The story focuses on Allegra ‘Pick’ Dill, a tenacious and highly-skilled investigator working in Washington, D.C for a young, ambitious Senator. When her ten-years younger sister, a homicide detective, is killed by a car bomb, Allegra returns to her corrupt Texas hometown. What begins as a search for the murderer becomes a fraught and dangerous excavation of the past Allegra has long sought to bury.
The novel has been adapted by Andy Greenwald and serves as executive producer alongside Sam Esmail through Esmail Corp and Anonymous Content’s Chad Hamilton. Rosario Dawson also serves as a producer on the series.
Minnich joins a cast that includes Rosario Dawson, Jay R. Ferguson, Edi Gathegi, Brian Geraghty and Kim Dickens.
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