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Cozy Mystery Series that Take Place In: England


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Maisie Dobbs Mystery Series

Jacqueline Winspear writes the Maisie Dobbs Mystery series which started in 2003 and is set in early 20th century England. It features Psychologist and Investigator Maisie Dobbs. As a young girl Maisie worked as a servant in a Belgravia mansion.…

Manor Cat Mystery Series

Eliza Casey writes the Manor Cat Mystery Series which started in November 2019 and is set in early 1900 England. Danby Hall is the only home Lady Cecilia Bates has ever known. Despite the rigid rules of etiquette and her mother the Countess of…

Marlow Mystery Club Series

Robert Thorogood writes the Marlow Mystery Club Series which started in and is set in England.  Meet Judith: a seventy-seven-year-old whiskey drinking, crossword puzzle author living her best life in a dilapidated mansion on the outskirts…

Max Tudor Mysteries

This series started in 2011 and set in England. It features Max Tudor who is a past MI5 agent. Max has moved to the quiet village of Nether Monkskip and is now vicar of St. Edwold’s.


Miss Marple Mystery Series

The Miss Marple Mystery series started in 1930 and is set in England. It features the famous spinster Miss Jane Marple who is a clever amateur sleuth and in the end out foxes every one.


Mrs. Jefferies Series

Inspector Witherspoon's dedicated housekeeper, Mrs. Jeffries keeps things running smoothly and is quite clever at putting Witherspoon on the right track in case after case. In fact, Mrs. Jeffries' polished detective skills prove once again that…

Mrs. Malory Mystery Series

Hazel Holt writes the Mrs. Malory Mystery Series which started in 1989 and takes place in England. It features Sheila Malory, a literary critic and amateur sleuth.


Murder by Candlelight Mystery Series

Faith Martin writes the Murder by Candlelight which started in January 2024 and is set in England in the Cotswolds, 1924. In the first book... At the Old Forge in the quiet village of Maybury-in-the-Marsh a cry of anguish rings out: lady of…

Murder on Location

Sara Rosett writes the Murder on Location Mystery series which started in 2014 and is set in England. It features Location scout and Jane Austen aficionado, Kate Sharp. In the first 2 books Kate is sent to the quaint village of Nether Woodsmoor…

Nosey Parker Cozy Mystery Series

Fiona Leitch writes the Nosey Parker Cozy Mystery Series which is set in Cornwall, England and started in January 2021.  Still spinning from the hustle and bustle of city life, Jodie ‘Nosey’ Parker is glad to be back…

Open Book Mystery Series

Margaret Loudon (aka Peg Cochran) writes the Open Book Mystery series which started in October 2020 and is set in England. It features Penelope Parish who has hit a streak of bad luck, including a severe case of writer's block that…

Oxford Magic Kitten Mystery Series

Rosemary A Johns writes the Oxford Magic Kitten Mystery Series which started in January 2021 and is set in England. It features Astra. She is single, love familiars, and she is also a witch whose demon cat has more magical ability in his…

Penny Nichols Mystery Series

C. A. Belmond writes the Penny Nichols Mystery Series which started in 2007 and is set in England. It features Penny Nichols and British Barrister Jeremy. From London to Rome and the French Riviera, this comedy of manners is about an American…

Pennyfoot Hotel Mystery Series

This series started in 1993 and is set in England in 1906. It features Cecily Sinclair. She is a recent widow and runs the Pennyfoot Hotel... a seaside hotel left to her by her husband. Cecily is very forward for her time-- smokes cigars, drives…

Peridale Cafe Mystery Series

Agatha Frost writes the Peridale Cafe Mystery Series which started in 2017 and is set in England. It features soon to be divorced Julia South who moves back to her hometown and starts the Peridale Cafe.


Phyllida Bright Mystery Series

Colleen Cambridge writes the Phyllida Bright Mystery Series which is set in England and started in October 2021.  Tucked away among Devon’s rolling green hills, Mallowan Hall combines the best of English tradition with the modern…

Port Danby Mystery Series

London Lovett writes the Port Danby Mystery Series. It features Lacey 'Pink' Pinkerton who has left behind a six figure job and her reputation as the million dollar nose—a nickname her super sense of smell earned her within the perfume industry.…

Potting Shed Mystery Series

Marty Wingate writes the Potting Shed Mystery Series which is set in England. It features Pru Parke, a middle-aged American gardener transplanted from Texas to England who solves murders.


Rachel Markham Mystery Series

P.B.Kolleri writes the Rachel Markham Mystery Series, which is set in 1940's - 1950's England. It features Rachel Markham, Lord Rutherford’s niece and Jeremy Richards, an erstwhile Scotland Yard Detective. Great English manor house mystery! NOTE…

Redmond and Haze Mystery Series

Irina Shapiro writes the Redmond and Haze Mystery Series which is set in Victorian England and started in February 2020. It features investigator Daniel Haze and former American soldier and a skilled surgeon Jason Redmond.


Royal Spyness Series

Rhys Bowen mystery author and Agatha Award winner debuts a 1930s London mystery series, featuring a penniless twenty-something member of the extended royal family. Her ridiculously long name is Lady Victoria Georgiana Charlotte Eugenie, daughter…

Ruth Galloway Mystery Series

Elly Griffiths (AKA Domenica de Rosa) writes the Ruth Galloway Mystery Series which started in 2010 and is set in England.  It features Forensic archeologist Dr. Ruth Galloway who lives on the remote English beach of Saltmarsh and…

Simon Kirby-Jones Mystery Series

Dean James (aka Miranda James) writes the Simon Kirby-Jones Mystery Series which is set in England. It features Amateur sleuth and American, Simon Kirby-Jones who is looking forward to settling into his new home in the quaint British village of…

Spellbinder Bay Paranormal Mystery Series

Sam Short writes the Spellbinder Bay Paranormal Mystery Series which is set in England and started in 2018. Would you drop everything and move to a town with a peculiar name, because an odd little man made you a strange offer? Millie…

St. Just Mystery Series

The St. Just Mystery Series started in 2008 and is set in England. The first novel in this series was the winner of the 2008 Agatha Award for Best First Novel. This series features Detective Chief Inspector St. Just & Sergeant Fear. The St.…

Sugar Martin Vintage Mystery Series

Shéa MacLeod writes the Sugar Martin Vintage Mystery Series which is set in 1948 England.  After receiving a letter about a mysterious inheritance, Sugar Martin hops a plane from the West Coast of America to exciting post-war London…

The English Mysteries

View books in this series below! Marjorie Owen wrote two mystery novels in The English Mystery Series. LADIES OF CLASS and THE POISON PEN. They feature Detective Chief Inspector Richard Hayward in two intriguing whodunits. The novels themselves…

The Thursday Murder Club Series

Richard Osman writes The Thursday Murder Club Mystery Series which started in September 2020 and is set in Kent, England.  In a peaceful retirement village, four unlikely friends meet weekly in the Jigsaw Room to discuss unsolved crimes; together…

Thomas and Charlotte Pitt Series

This series is set in Victorian England and features Thomas Pitt a Police Inspector and his wife Charlotte. This series started in 1979 but there are e-books and paperbacks available.... even for the first book in the series. Even though Thomas…

Tommy and Evelyn Christie Mystery Series

Catherine Coles writes the Tommy & Evelyn Christie Mystery Series which started in July 2020 and is set in England.  This series takes place in the 1920s. It features Evelyn and Tommy Christie who become Earl and Lady Northmoor…