Anya Taylor-Joy, who first broke out on Netflix with “The Queen’s Gambit,” is returning to the streamer to star in a series adaptation of Bella Mackie’s bestselling novel “How to Kill Your Family.”

In the eight-episode series, which was announced on Wednesday at the Edinburgh TV Festival, Taylor-Joy will play the murderous protagonist Grace Bernard.

“Grace has a complicated family. Her dad is Simon Artemis; a billionaire and ruthless social climber. She’s the product of an affair he claims not to remember and Grace and her mum were left to fend for themselves,” the synopsis reads. “When her...