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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…

Nicholas George writes the, A Walk Through England Mystery Series which started in March 2024 and is set in England. After a long career as a detective in San Diego, Rick “Chase” Chasen has traded in his badge for a change of scenery…

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…

Zanna Mackenzie writes the Amber Reed CCIA Mystery series which is set in England. It features Amber Reed who during the day works as a horoscope writer for a local paper and in the evenings she's a bar maid in a pub. It also features Charlie…

Ashley Weaver writes the Amory Ames Mystery series which started in October 2014 and is set in 1930s England. It features high society protagonist Amory Ames. It's set amidst the upper-crust of British society. The first book, 'Murder at the…

When Lori Shepherd was a little girl she used to lie in bed at night with a stuffed rabbit named Reginald and listen to her mother's stories of the indomitable Aunt Dimity, who lived in far-off England. But now Lori is a newly divorced, down-on-…

Andrea Frazer writes the Belchester Chronicles which started in 2012 and is set in England. It features an outrageously ill-assorted pair of amateur sleuths. Lady Amanda Golightly of Belchester Towers and long-lost friend, Hugo Cholmondley-…

Jessica Ellicott (aka Jessie Crockett & Jessica Estevao) writes the Beryl and Edwina Mystery Series which started in October 2017 and is set in England. It features Beryl Helliwell who is a boisterous American and Edwina Davenport, a very…

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…

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…

Steve Higgs writes the Blue Moon Investigations Mystery series which is set in England and started in 2017. It features Tempest Michaels who after retiring from the army opens a detective agency. Tempest Michaels is a paranormal investigator by a…

Elizabeth Penney writes the Cambridge Bookshop Mystery Series which started in September 2021 and is set in England.  It features Vermont native and librarian Molly Kimball and her mother, poet Nina Marlowe, who move to Cambridge,…

Charlot King writes the Cambridge Murder Mystery series which is set in Cambridge, England. It features Professor Elizabeth Green who is a lecturer of plant sciences at the University of Cambridge, specialising in poisonous flora. It also…

Ann Granger writes the Campbell and Carter Mystery series which started in 2009 and is set in England. It features Inspector Jess Campbell and her new boss Superintendent Ian Carter. The series takes place in the Cotswolds.

Alannah Foley writes the Campervan Bushman Mystery Series which starts in December 2015. It features ex-surf champ and model, Scott Chevalier who isn't just a pretty face! With an enviable campervan-surfie lifestyle, and a handful of impressive…

Charles Finch writes the Charles Lenox Series which started in 2007 and is set in England in 1865. It features Charles Lenox, a wealthy gentlemen and amateur detective. A Beautiful Blue Death was his first novel and was nominated for an Agatha…

Kate P. Adams writes the Charleton House Mystery Series which started in April 2020 and is set in England.  It features cafe manager, Sophie Lockwood.  The cafe is located at the ancestral home of the Fitzwilliam-Scott family which…

Jennifer Hawkins writes the Chatty Corgi Mystery Series which started in December 2020 and is set in England.   Emma Reed leaves London and her life in high finance behind her and moves to an idyllic village in Cornwall, with its…

J.A. Lang writes the Chef Maurice Mysteries series which started in April 2015 and is set in the Cotswolds, England. It features Chef Maurice, proprietor of Le Cochon Rouge in the Cotswold village of Beakley. “They say one should never trust a…

Set in Victorian England this series features Britain’s wealthy and powerful elite in West End mansions and great country houses. The characters in this series are from Anne Perry's other Victorian series Thomas and Charlotte Pitt series and the…

Emily Organ writes the Churchill and Pemberley Series which started in 2019 and is set in England. Armed with handbags and fuelled by cake, senior sleuths Annabel Churchill and Doris Pemberley are about to give the sleepy English…

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…

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.

Peter Bartram writes the Crampton Of The Chronicle Mystery series which started in August 2015 and is set in England. It features crime reporter Colin Crampton in 1960s Brighton, UK. In the first book the Brighton Evening Chronicle's crime…

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…

Louis Innes writes the Daisy Thorne Mystery Series which started in November 2020 and is set in England. It features hair salon owner Daisy Thorne.  In the first book Daisy solves a murder in an English manor.

Anne Perry writes the Daniel Pitt Mystery Series which started in and is set in England. It's 1910 and twenty-five-year-old Daniel Pitt is a junior barrister in London.  Daniel is Thomas Pitt's son which is a character in Anne Perry's Thomas and…

Ann Cleeves writes the Detective Matthew Venn series which is set in England and started in .  It features detective Matthew Venn. NOW A BRITBOX SERIES STARRING BEN ALDRIDGE AND PEARL MACKIE. The Long Call from Ann…

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…

This series started in 1995 and takes place in England. It features retired schoolteacher Dorothy Martin, an American expat living in England. Also featured is Dorothy's husband, retired Chief Constable Alan Nesbitt. The first book in this series…