Hannah Dennison writes the Island Sisters Mystery Series which started in August 2020 and is set on an island off of Cornwall, England. It features two sisters who inherit an old hotel in the remote Scilly Islands…
British Themed Cozy 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…
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.
High-flying public relations supremo Agatha Raisin has decided to take early retirement. She's off to make a new life in a picture-perfect Cotswold village. Agatha solves murders. I love this series. Agatha is in her mid 50s, can't cook and has a…
The Libby Sarjeant Mystery Series which started in 2006 and is set in England. It features ex-actress, Libby Sarjeant. Libby lives in the small town of Steeple Martin in Kent. Together Libby and her psychic investigator friend Fran Castle solve…
Joanna Campbell Slan writes The Jane Eyre Chronicles which started in 2012 and takes place in England. It features the strong-willed and intelligent Jane Eyre. This series is set in the 1820s and picks up where author Charlotte Bronte left off. Jane…
Nancy Herriman writes the Bess Ellyott Mystery Series which started in March 2018 and is set in historic England. Herbalist and widow Bess Ellyott tries to escape the loss of her husband in Elizabethan London only to find that death is following her…
Dorothy Cannell writes the Florence Norris Mystery Series which started in 2014 and is set in England in the 1930s. It features Florence Norris-- Housekeeper of Stodmarsh Family in Their Country House. This is a great English country house mystery…
Alan Bradley writes the Flavia de Luce Series which started in 2009 and takes place in England. It features eleven-year-old Flavia de Luce. The year is 1950 and Flavia de Luce along with her eccentric family live in a decaying mansion. Flavia has…
Rebecca Tope writes the Cotswold Mystery Series which started in 2004 and is set in England. It features recently widowed Thea Osborne. Thea is a house sitter who solves murders.
Jane Willan writes the Sister Agatha and Father Selwyn Mystery Series which is set in Wales. It features Sister Agatha, the nuns of Gwenafwy Abbey and Agatha's unwitting sidekick, Father Selwyn. This is a clever traditional mystery series set at a…
C.S. Challinor writes the Rex Grave Mystery series which started in 2008 and is set in Scotland. It features amateur detective and Scottish barrister, Rex Graves. He is fond of Sudoku puzzles and Latin quotations. Although Rex is a Scottish…
This series takes place in early 1900 England at the Pennyfoot Hotel. The main character, Cecily Sinclair Baxter, owns the hotel and is witty and very independent. The Christmas books are based on the original series, the Pennyfoot Hotel. The…
Award winning author Deborah Crombie writes the Kincaid & James Mystery Series which started in 1993 and takes place in London, England. It features Duncan Kincaid, Police Superintendent and his down-to-earth Police Sergeant Gemma James.
Faith Martin (aka Jacquie Walton) writes the JENNY STARLING Series which is set in England. In her late twenties, Jenny Starling is a travelling cook who'd rather bake (and eat!) chocolate cake than solve a murder. Her famous (and now very rich)…
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Kate Parker writes the Victorian Bookshop Mystery series which started in December 2013 and is set in Victorian England. At 30, Victorian bookshop owner Georgia Fenchurch knows she’s considered…
C.C. Benison writes the Father Christmas Mystery Series which started in 2011 and takes place in England. It features recent widow, Father Tom Christmas who is a wise and warm-hearted new vicar of the picturesque English village of Thornford Regis…
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.
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 to…
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!
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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.…
Charles Todd is the writing team of Charles and Caroline Todd-- a mother and son writing team who live on the east coast of the United States.
Charles Todd writes the Bess Crawford Mystery series which is set in early 1900 England during WWI and…
Ann Purser writes the Lois Meade Mystery Series which started in 2002 and takes place in England. It features a devoted wife and mother of three, Lois Meade who cleans houses in the quaint English village of Long Farnden. The series also features…
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…
N.L. Wilson (aka Norah Wilson and Heather Doherty) writes the Dix Dodd Mystery series which is set in England. It features Dix Dodd who is tired of getting no respect at the big P.I. firm where she’s worked for years. At age 40 she ventures out on…
This series started in 1994 and is set in England. It features journalist, Daisy Dalrymple. This series takes place in the 1920s and Daisy, the daughter of a Viscount, shocks her family when she decides that she wants to make her own living as a…
This series started in 2009 and is set in England. It features Kate Shackleton who is a World War I widow that takes up sleuthing. Although Kate Shackleton's husband is listed as MIA, she hasn't given up hope. Meanwhile, she assists others in…
Susan Elia MacNeal writes the Maggie Hope Mystery series which started in and is set in 1940 England. It features American, Maggie Hope. She graduated at the top of her college class and possesses all the skills of the finest minds in British…
This series started in 2009 and is set in 1960s England. It features widow, Eleanor Trewynn who runs a charity shop in Cornwall, England. In earlier years she traveled to exotic places with her husband. Now she is retired and to the dismay of…
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.