England
So many books set in England! Someday we’ll divide them into sections, but how to do it? Half of them are in an imaginary English countryside, while others might list a county. Maybe we can divide them into the North, Midlands, and South, but until then you’ll have to enjoy them all.
The 1920s High Society Lady Detective Mysteries (Sara Rosett)
The Adam and Eve Mysteries (Emma Davies)
The Agatha Aston Mysteries (Jack Murray)
The Agatha Raisin Mysteries (M. C. Beaton) Agatha Raisin gives up her successful PR firm, sells her London flat, and settles in for early retirement in the quiet village of Carsely. She soon finds her life of leisure isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. The series was continued by Rod W. Green after M. C. Beaton’s death.
The Agnes Lockwood Mysteries (Eileen Thornton)
The Amanda Cadabra Mysteries (Holly Bell)
The Amory Ames Mysteries (Ashley Weaver) Amory Ames, a wealthy young woman questioning her marriage to her notoriously charming playboy husband, Milo, is looking for a change.
The Amy Hammond Mysteries (Tia Brown)
The Amy Rowlings Mysteries (T. A. Belshaw) England, 1939. The residents of the snow-covered streets of a small Kentish town awake to horrific news. When young Amy Rowlings meets Detective Sergeant Bodkin at the scene of a robbery she is blissfully unaware of how much her life is about to change.
The Andrew Basnett Mysteries (E. X. Ferrars)
The Angelica Boyle Mysteries (S. Thomas Thompson)
The Annabeth Watson Mysteries (Katherine H. Brown) Having lost her post as a governess, when Annabeth Watson returns home for Christmas she’s returning home to stay. A less than welcome reception from her father isn’t surprising, but the murder of a maid is quite shocking.
The Anty Boisjoly Mysteries (P. J. Fitzsimmons)
The Araminta Investigates Mysteries (Karen Chester)
The Ariadne Arlington Mysteries (Christian Huyeng)
The Arnold Landon Mysteries (Roy Lewis)
The Astrid Swift Mysteries (M. H. Eccleston)
The Aunt Dimity Mysteries (Nancy Atherton)
The Baker Street Mysteries (Michael Robertson) Two brother lawyers lease offices on London’s Baker Street–and begin receiving mail addressed to Sherlock Holmes.
The Barcarolle Mysteries (Kathryn Rose)
The Beau Brummell Regency Mysteries (Rosemary Stevens) England, 1805. When a desperate Duchess of York asks for his help, Beau Brummell wouldn’t think of refusing.
The Beaufort Scales Mysteries (Kim M. Watt)
The Belinda Penshurst Mysteries (Lisa Cutts)
The Below Stairs Mysteries (Jennifer Ashley) Highly sought-after young cook Kat Holloway takes a position in a Mayfair mansion and soon finds herself immersed in the odd household of Lord Rankin. Kat is unbothered by the family’s eccentricities as long as they stay away from her kitchen, but trouble finds its way below stairs.
The Berdie Elliott Mysteries (Marilyn Leach)
The Bertie Carroll Mysteries (Jamie West)
The Beryl and Edwina Mysteries (Jessica Ellicott)
The Beth Haldane Mysteries (Alice Castle) Meet Dulwich Village’s most daring resident, Beth Haldane. Mother to a sweet little boy, owner of a sulky cat… and solver of mysteries?
The Beth Williams Mysteries (Sharon Bill)
The Bewitched By Chocolate Mysteries (H. Y. Hanna)
The Blingwood Mysteries (Scott Kelly)
The Bliss Bay Village Mysteries (Sherri Bryan)
The Blotto & Twinks Mysteries (Simon Brett)
The Booker & Fitch Mysteries (Liz Hedgecock)
The Bright Young Witches Mysteries (Beth Byers)
The Brimful Coffers Mysteries (Marian Babson) A number of mystery authors, including Lorinda Lucas, call the village of Brimful Coffers home. Occasionally, there is a violent death… for example, the demise of a hapless rat, done in by Lorinda’s two kitties. But when the victims are book critic Plantagenet Sutton and a visiting writer, Lorinda finds the case much more difficult to solve.
The Brit of Trouble Mysteries (Ruby Blaylock)
The British Cozy Mysteries (Leena Clover)
The British Stately Home Mysteries (Amy Myers)
The Chronicles of Brother Cadfael (Ellis Peters) A Welsh Benedictine monk living at Shrewsbury Abbey in western England in the twelfth century, Brother Cadfael spends much of his time tending the herbs and vegetables in the garden—but now there’s a more pressing matter. His plan to root out a murderer may dig up more than he can handle.
Dog Detective – A Bulldog on the Case (Rosie Sams) Lola Ramsay is a veteran trying to keep it quiet that she can hear her dog talking. When her friend Tanya offers her a new life in a sleepy British village, it seems like the perfect place to work everything out.
The Bunburry Mysteries (Helena Marchmont)
The Button Up Detective Agency Mysteries (Lizzie Lewis)
The Caffè Milano Mysteries (Ruth Ward)
The Cambridge Murder Mysteries (Charlot King)
The Cambridge Bookshop Mysteries (Elizabeth Penney)
The Campervan Bushman Mysteries (Alannah Foley)
The Canon Clement Mysteries (Richard Coles) Canon Daniel Clement is Rector of Champton. He has been there for eight years, living at the Rectory alongside his widowed mother, Audrey, and his two dachshunds, Cosmo and Hilda.
The Cassie Coburn Mysteries (Samantha Silver) Cassie Coburn moved to London on a whim, expecting to see the sights and live the typical tourist backpacker lifestyle. Instead she finds herself accompanying a French private detective, Violet Despuis.
The Caster & Fleet Mysteries (Paula Harmon)
The Cats Whisker Café Mysteries (Sarah May Bird) Welcome to Catton Strawless, a charming little seaside village in the English countryside. Home to a cat café and lively bunch of characters, everything seems idyllic. Detective Constable Bardot thought his posting would be a dull affair of sorting out lawn mower thefts or disturbances at church fetes.
The Charles Fort Historical Mysteries (T. E. Scott)
The Charleton House Mysteries (Kate P. Adams)
The Charming Little Bookshop Mysteries (Andrew Thomas) Ava Charming runs her newly opened bookshop and helps people to understand dangerous secrets, peculiar disappearances, and shocking murders.
The Chatty Corgi Mysteries (Jennifer Hawkins) Emma Reed leaves London and her life in high finance behind her and moves to an idyllic village in Cornwall, with its cobblestone streets and twisting byways. She plans to open a village tea shop and bake the recipes handed down to her from her beloved grandmother, and of course there’ll be plenty of space for her talking corgi, Oliver, to explore. Yes…talking. Emma has always been able to understand Oliver, even though no one else can.
The Chef Maurice Mysteries (J. A. Lang)
The Cherringham Mysteries (Costello and Richards) Cherringham – a quiet town in the Cotswolds. Nothing ever happens there, or so it seems… These are novellas written by Matthew Costello and Neil Richards.
The Cherringham Novels (Costello and Richards) Cherringham – a quiet town in the Cotswolds. Nothing ever happens there, or so it seems… These are full-length books written by Matthew Costello and Neil Richards.
The Cherrywood Mysteries (Penny Blackwell) Preparations are underway for Cherrywood’s annual celebration of Guy Fawkes Night, but when the sleepy village is struck by murder, Tess and her friends are forced to team up once again as they investigate a tale of murder and vengeance that could go all the way to the top.
The Chloe’s Cream Tea Café Mysteries (Rosie Chambers) When Chloe Hamilton throws her first summer garden party at the Cream Tea Café, she couldn’t be happier. With cucumber sandwiches, home-made lemonade, and ice-cold prosecco on the menu, the afternoon is a roaring success.
The Christians Cross Mysteries (Tia Brown)
The Christmas Mysteries (Ada Moncrieff) Christmas 1938. The Westbury family and assorted friends have gathered together for another legendary Christmas at their Sussex mansion. As family tensions simmer on Christmas Eve, the champagne flows and the silver sparkles.
The Chronicles of Brother Hermitage (Howard of Warwick) England’s most famous date 1066: At the monastery of De’Ath’s Dingle, during a completely pointless theological debate, there is a mysterious death. Routine business for the average investigative medieval monk. Unfortunately this isn’t a tale of average monks.
The Churchill and Pemberley Mysteries (Emily Organ) Growing bored in the autumn of her years, Londoner Annabel Churchill buys a private detective agency in a Dorset village.
Clare Montgomery Investigates (Daisy Thurbin)
The Cleopatra Fox Mysteries (C. J. Archer) England, 1899. After the death of her beloved grandmother, Cleopatra Fox moves into the luxury hotel owned by her estranged uncle in the hopes of putting hardship and loneliness behind her.
The Coma Mysteries (Bambi Harris) England, 1966. Abbey Roads suddenly awakens in a mysterious old sanitarium in the meadows, Castlereagh. Having been in and out of a coma her whole life, she is relieved to find she has been taken in by an enigmatic doctor.
The Conrad the Cat Detective Mysteries (L. T. Shearer)
The Constable Evans Mysteries (Rhys Bowen) Evan Evans is a young police constable who has traded in the violence of city life for idyllic Llanfair, a Welsh village tucked far away from trouble.
The Cornish Castle Mysteries (Vivian Conroy)
The Cornish Village Mysteries (Clara Penrose)
The Cotswold Capers Mysteries (Peter Hyson)
The Cotswolds Mysteries (Annie Dromard)
The Cozy Beatles Mysteries (Kal Smagh) Helen Spencer tells of her days with the Beatles and sleuthing in flashback.
The Cozy Craft Mysteries (Millie Ravensworth) After losing her job at an exclusive London hotel, Penny Slipper is only too happy to help when her grandma asks her to take charge at the Cozy Craft sewing shop in charming rural Suffolk.
The Crystal Café Mysteries (Jessica Lancaster)
Daisy Morrow Super-sleuth! (R. T. Green)
The Daisy Thorne Mysteries (Louise R. Innes)
The Dales Detective Mysteries (Julia Chapman)
The Deadly Mysteries (Kate Parker) London, 1937. Olivia Denis is the carefree young wife of a Foreign Office dignitary when her world is shattered. Police discover her husband fatally shot near the German embassy and declare it suicide. Olivia knows better.
The Deadly Morsel Mysteries (Bea Kendall)
The Devonshire Mysteries (Michael Campling)
The Dinner Lady Detectives Mysteries (Hannah Hendy)
The Dodo Dorchester Mysteries (Ann Sutton)
The Donald & Gamble Mysteries (P. F. Ford)
The Dora and Rex Mysteries (Lynn Morrison)
The Dorothy Martin Mysteries (Jeanne M. Dams) Dorothy Martin, sixtyish widow from Indiana and retired schoolteacher, moves to England shortly after her husband dies. A move they had planned to make together, to the fictitious cathedral city of Sherebury, located somewhere in the southeast of England.
The Dr Margaret Demeray Mysteries (Paula Harmon)
The Dr. Gideon Fell Mysteries (John Dickson Carr)
The Duchess of Snodsbury Mysteries (Kathryn Mykel) London, 1958. Lady Mary, Duchess of Snodsbury has received a royal dispatch to travel to London to prepare the last of the debutants for entrance into society. Written by P. C. James and Kathryn Mykel.
The Edith Horton Mysteries (Noreen Wainwright) Set in 1931, Edith Horton is a former VAD who finds herself not only struggling with her inner demons, but with the presence of evil in her village in the Yorkshire Dales.
The Ela of Salisbury Medieval Mysteries (J. G. Lewis) Ela Longespée, the young Countess of Salisbury, was chosen to marry King Henry II’s illegitimate son William. After her husband’s untimely death, Ela served as High Sheriff of Wiltshire, castellan of Salisbury Castle, and ultimately founder and abbess of Lacock Abbey.
The Eleanor Wilde Mysteries (Tamara Berry) Ellie Wilde has an ailing sister to care for and working as a ghost hunter who doesn’t believe in ghosts helps cover the bills. When she’s lucky, it also pays for the occasional tropical vacation. On her latest job, though, she may be in for some genuine scares.
The Electra McDonnell Mysteries (Ashley Weaver) Electra McDonnell and her family earn their living outside the law. Breaking into the homes of the rich and picking the locks on their safes may not be condoned by British law enforcement, but with World War II in full swing, Uncle Mick’s locksmith business just can’t pay the bills anymore.
The Eliza Montagu Mysteries (Fiona Grace) For centuries, Thistlewood Manor has stood as home to the Montagu family, a beacon to British aristocracy in rural England. But it’s 1928, and in this new age of women’s rights, Eliza Montagu, 27, a free spirit, has turned her back on her family to live an artist’s life in London.
The Ellie Haskell Mysteries (Dorothy Cannell)
The English Cottage Garden Mysteries (H. Y. Hanna)
The English Village Mysteries (Margaret Scutt) In a Dorset village, nothing ever happens. But in a village full of secrets, the truth can be hard to find. Each book in the series is a standalone title.
The English Village Witch Mysteries (Rosie Reed)
The English Village Mysteries (Louise Marley) When Milla Graham returns to her childhood home of Raven’s Edge after eighteen long years away, she finds the perfect English village looks much the same – all rose-covered cottages, nosy neighbours, and chintzy teashops full of scones and gossip.
The Epiphany Bloom Mysteries (Katie Gayle)
The Eve Mallow Mysteries (Clare Chase)
The Everyday Witches of Wildham-on-Sea (Molly Milligan)
The Evie Parker Mysteries (Sonia Parin)
The Far Wychwood Mysteries (Patricia Harwin) “You’re a librarian, not a detective,” Catherine Penny’s daughter reminds her. But Catherine, suddenly single in her sixties, finds it easy to slip into sleuthing mode when she leaves New York City for a lovely 17th century cottage in the idyllic English village of Far Wychwood.
The Father Brown Mysteries (G. K. Chesterton) Father Brown is a nondescript priest who somehow gets involved in a number of short stories. An early series of cozies, it could be considered a progenitor of many modern mysteries, including Agatha Christie and other traditional stories. The series is now more famous for the television adaptation.
The Father Christmas Mysteries (C. C. Benison) Father Tom Christmas moves to the picturesque English hamlet of Thornford Regis to become its new vicar and to seek a peaceful haven.
The Fethering Village Mysteries (Simon Brett)
The Fiona Figg Mysteries (Kelly Oliver) Desperate to get out of London, and determined to help the war effort and stop thinking about her philandering husband, Fiona Figg volunteers to go undercover.
The First Edition Library Mysteries (Marty Wingate) Hayley Burke has landed a dream job. She is the new curator of Lady Georgiana Fowling’s First Edition library. The library is kept at Middlebank House, a lovely Georgian home in Bath, England.
The Flavia de Luce Mysteries (Alan Bradley)
The Flight Risk Mysteries (Susan Harper)
The Flora Maguire Mysteries (Anita Davison)
The Flora Steele Mysteries (Merryn Allingham) Sussex, 1955. When Flora Steele opens up her bookshop one morning she finds the body of a young man. Determined to save her beloved bookshop’s reputation and solve the baffling mystery, Flora enlists the help of Jack Carrington: crime writer, recluse and her most reliable customer.
The Florence Norris Mysteries (Dorothy Cannell) In its three-hundred-year history, there has never once been a scandal at Mullings, ancestral home of the decent but dull Stodmarsh family. Until, that is, Edward Stodmarsh makes an ill-advised second marriage to the scheming Regina Stapleton.
The Lady Jane and Mrs Forbes Mysteries (B. D. Churston) England, December 1927. When Mrs Kate Forbes and her academically minded niece, Lady Jane Scott are invited to a gathering at Linton Hall, the last thing they expect is to become amateur sleuths pitting their wits against Inspector Ridley of Scotland Yard to solve a shocking murder.
The Francis Oughterard Mysteries (Suzette A. Hill)
The Freddy Pilkington-Soames Adventures (Clara Benson)
The Friday Street Mysteries (Russell Cooper) Eccentric twin brothers, Cedric and Ambrose, retire from MI6 to make honey and tackle crosswords at Tanglefoot Farm in England’s Surrey Hills.
The George & Molly Palmer-Jones Mysteries (Ann Cleeves) In England’s birdwatching paradise, a new breed has been sighted – a murderer. One of the best birders in England, Tom French was found dead. He had put the village of Rushy on the birdwatching map. Everyone liked him. Or did they? George Palmer-Jones, an elderly birdwatcher, and his lovely wife Molly decide quietly to look into the brutal crime.
The Gertrude Harrington Mysteries (Benjamin Ford)
The Gervase Fen Mysteries (Edmund Crispin)
The Ghosts of London Mysteries (Nic Saint)
The Gourmet Detective Mysteries (Peter King)
The Grantchester Mysteries (James Runcie)
The Great Witches Baking Show (Nancy Warren) Poppy Wilkinson is thrilled to be chosen as a contestant on The Great British Baking Contest. As an American with English roots, winning the title of Britain’s Best Baker would open doors she’s dreamed of.
The Gull Bay Mysteries (Ashley Cain) April Hart inherited the Bluewater Café in the picturesque village of Gull Bay from her grandmother. Whilst trade is brisk in the spring and summer, the winters in Gull Bay can be slow and quiet and she desperately needs to keep the café open to pay for all the renovations that she has made.
The Guy Harford Mysteries (T. P. Fielden) London, 1941. Major Edgar Brampton is found shot dead in his office in Buckingham Palace. All signs point towards a self-inflicted tragedy, but fellow courtier Guy Harford’s suspicions are raised.
The Ham Hill Murder Mysteries (Frances Evesham)
The Hatterton Crow Mysteries (Ormolu Mockingbird)
The Haunting Avery Winters Mysteries (Dionne Lister)
The Headline Hero Mysteries (Peter Bartram)
The Heathcliff Lennox Mysteries (Karen Baugh Menuhin) It’s 1920 and Christmas is coming. Major Lennox finds a body on his doorstep. Lennox goes to Melrose Court, home to his uncle, Lord Melrose, to uncover the mystery. But then the murders begin and it snows and it all becomes very complicated.
The Heathervale Mysteries (Matilda Swift) Hard-working Arrina Fenn can deal with the local gossips, petty vandals and even runaway tractors in Heathervale village. They’re easy to overcome with a cup of tea in one hand and a delicious cake from her best friend’s café in the other.
The Helen & Martha Mysteries (Sigrid Vansandt)
The Helen Dexter Mysteries (Glenda Young)
The Helen Lightholder Mysteries (Blythe Baker) England, 1940s. When Helen Lightholder’s world is shattered by the death of her husband during the London Blitz, she escapes to the countryside, hoping to leave the war behind her. But managing an inherited property in a quaint Gloucestershire village turns out to be more perilous than she expects.
The Helen Somers Mysteries (A. J. Chess)
The Henry Houdini Dog Detective Mysteries (Morgen Bailey) Henry, a talking Jack Russell, is part of a small team researching a cure for Multiple Sclerosis. He is the target of several dognappers but can he use his wit or guile to outwit them and find the proof needed to convict the criminals? Originally written under the pen name Rachel Cavanagh.
Her Majesty Investigates (C. C. Benison) Jane Bee, housemaid at Buckingham Palace, investigates crimes at Her Majesty’s behest. Not to be confused with the Her Majesty the Queen Investigates series by S. J. Bennett.
Her Majesty the Queen Investigates (S. J. Bennett) Queen Elizabeth II secretly solves crimes while carrying out her royal duties. Not to be confused with the Her Majesty Investigates series by C. C. Benison.
The Holly Holmes Mysteries (K. E. O’Connor) After being forced to close her charming café in the idyllic English village of Audley St. Mary, Holly Holmes is thrilled to get a job in the Audley Castle kitchens, making divine treats for visitors and serving the Audley family who live in the castle.
The Honeychurch Hall Mysteries (Hannah Dennison)
The Hopgood Hall Mysteries (E. V. Hunter) When investigative journalist, Alexi Ellis, falls victim to cutbacks, she and Cosmo, her anti-social feral cat, head for beautiful Hopgood Hall, where they plan to lick their wounds in the boutique hotel run by her old friends, Cheryl and Drew Hopgood.
The Hotel Mysteries (Jim Eldridge) August 1940. On the streets of London, locals watch with growing concern as German fighter planes plague the city’s skyline. But inside the famous Ritz Hotel, the cream of society continues to enjoy all the glamour and comfort that money can buy during wartime.
The Imogen Quy Mysteries (Jill Paton Walsh) Imogen Quy is the nurse at St. Agatha’s College in Cambridge, which seems to have more mysteries than you might expect.
The Inspector Boyle Mysteries (J. H. Roche) England, Late 1931. Lord Avery’s death brings his family back to Oakford Court, a large manor house estate in the small village of Oakford, Devon. His dying wish was that the ancestral home remains in the family.
The Iris Grey Mysteries (M. B. Shaw) Iris Grey rents a quaint cottage in a picture-perfect Hampshire village, looking to escape from her crumbling marriage. She is drawn to the neighboring Wetherby family, and is commissioned to paint a portrait of Dominic Wetherby, a celebrated crime writer.
The Isabelle Darby Mysteries (Julie Butterfield) Follows Issie as she settles into her new home in Lower Dimblebrook. Unfortunately, her arrival is accompanied by a series of murders, along with the rather delicious DI Wainwright.
The Isle of Man Mysteries (Diana Xarissa) Aunt Bessie assumes that she’ll have the beach all to herself on a cold, wet, and windy March morning, then she stumbles over a dead body.
The Isle of Man Ghostly Mysteries (Diana Xarissa) Fenella Woods has only met a few people during the twenty-four hours she’s been in Douglas, the capital city of the Isle of Man. She’s shocked when she discovers one of them dead in an alley behind her apartment building.
The Ivy Beasley Mysteries (Ann Purser)
The Jack Colby, Car Detective Mysteries (Amy Myers)
The Jewish Regency Mysteries (Libi Astaire)
The John Rawlings Mysteries (Deryn Lake) A richly atmospheric and compelling Georgian mystery woven around the real characters John Fielding, the phenomenal sightless magistrate known as the ‘Blind Beak’, whose Runners formed London’s early police force, and John Rawlings, the Apothecary reputed to have invented soda water.
The Joyce and Ginger Mysteries (Kate P. Adams)
The Julia Bird Mysteries (Katie Gayle)
The Juliet Page Mysteries (Audrey Shine) Juliet has always loved mystery novels, but she never thought she’d be in the middle of one.
The Juliette Abbott Mysteries (Marilyn Clay) Young Juliette Abbott has agreed to serve as lady’s maid to one of the young ladies invited to the country estate of Morland Manor, each girl hoping to win the heart of the wealthy Morland heir. But nothing at the house party goes as planned.
The Kat and Mouse Mysteries (Anita Waller)
The Kate Palmer Mysteries (Dee MacDonald)
The Kate Shackleton Mysteries (Frances Brody) Take one quiet Yorkshire village, add a measure of mystery, a sprinkling of scandal, and Kate Shackleton—amateur sleuth extraordinaire!
The Keeley Carpenter Mysteries (Michelle Kelly)
The Kentish Crime Mysteries (E. M. Elliot)
The Kitt Hartley Yorkshire Mysteries (Helen Cox) It’s a perfectly normal day for Kitt Hartley at her job at the University of the Vale of York library, until Detective Inspector Halloran arrives at her desk to tell her that her best friend, Evie Bowes, is under suspicion of murder.
The Kitty Worthington Mysteries (Magda Alexander) England, 1923. After a year away at finishing school, Kitty Worthington is eager to return home. But minutes after she and her brother Ned board the Golden Arrow, the unthinkable happens.
The Kurland St. Mary Mysteries (Catherine Lloyd)
The Lady Adelaide Mysteries (Maggie Robinson)
The Lady Alkmene Mysteries (Vivian Conroy)
The Lady Eleanor Mysteries (Lynda Wilcox)
The Lady Eleanor Swift Mysteries (Verity Bright) England, 1920. Eleanor Swift has spent the last few years travelling the world and she has just arrived in England after a chaotic forty-five-day flight from South Africa. Chipstone is about the sleepiest town you could have the misfortune to meet.
Lady Ellen Investigates (Kelly Mason)
The Lady Gayle Summer Mysteries (Cassie Rush) England, 1922. Lady Gayle Summer takes up residence at Bethencourt Castle having unexpectedly inherited the estate and the title Countess Bethencourt from her father.
Lady Petra Inquires (Celeste Connally) London, 1815. Lady Petra Forsyth, daughter of the Earl of Holbrook, has made a shocking proclamation. She announces in front of London’s loosest lips that she will never marry. Instead, she plans to continue enjoying the best of society without any expectations.
The Lady Rample Mysteries (Shea MacLeod)
The Lady Thea Mysteries (Jessica Baker)
The Lady Worthing Mysteries (Vanessa Riley) Discovering a body on her property presents Lady Abigail Worthing with more than one pressing problem. The victim is Juliet, the wife of her neighbor.
The Lavington Windsor Mysteries (Alice James)
The Libby Sarjeant Mysteries (Lesley Cookman)
The Libby the Psychic Dog Mysteries (A. L. Jambor) What happens when an English lord is reincarnated as a pudgy terrier? Lord Percival Plep was a hero in the war to end all wars, but when a bullet ends his life, he wakes to find that he has been reborn one hundred years later as a dog!
The Lily Adler Mysteries (Katharine Schellman) London 1815. Though newly-widowed Lily Adler is returning to a society that frowns on independent women, she is determined to create a meaningful life for herself even without a husband. She’s no stranger to the glittering world of London’s upper crust.
The Lola Rose Mysteries (C. Jane Reid)
Lord Edgington Investigates… (Benedict Brown)
The Lord James Harrington Mysteries (Lynn Florkiewicz) Lord James Harrington and his wife, Beth, adore hosting seasonal events at their country hotel in the tiny village of Cavendish in England.
The Lord Julian Mysteries (Grace Burrowes) Lord Julian Caldicott has come home from the war with his reputation, his health, and his memory in tatters. Honor alone compels him to uncover the truth when he’s cast into one dangerous intrigue after another.
The Lord Kit Aston Mysteries (Jack Murray) It’s 1919, Lord Arthur Cavendish has received a Christmas card saying, ’Happy Christmas, I’ve killed you.’ When Cavendish is found dead, Kit Aston, a WWI hero, Secret Intelligence Service spy and amateur sleuth, investigates.
The Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries (Dorothy L. Sayers) Lord Peter Wimsey is a British gentleman detective, who solves mysteries for his own amusement. A followup series was written by Jill Paton Walsh after Sayers’ death.
The Lorna Shadow Ghost Mysteries (K. E. O’Connor) Lorna Shadow wants to be the best personal assistant she can be to the rich and aristocratic. The trouble is, the ghosts have other plans for her.
The Lucas Rathbone Mysteries (Saffron Amatti)
The Lucia Steer London Mysteries (Sabina Manea)
The Lucy Campion Mysteries (Susanna Calkins) For Lucy Campion, a seventeenth-century English chambermaid serving in the household of the local magistrate, life is an endless repetition of polishing pewter, emptying chamber pots, and dealing with other household chores.
The Lydenlea Mysteries (Suzie Lou Miller)
The Maggie Darling Mysteries (N. C. Lewis)
The Maggie Glenn Mysteries (Toni Prender)
The Maggie Mulgrew Mysteries (Cate Dean)
The Magical Tea Room Mysteries (Erin Johnson) Minnie Wells is working her marketing magic to save the coziest, vampire-owned tea room in Bath, England. But add in a string of murders, spells to learn, and a handsome boss, and Minnie’s cup runneth over with mischief and mayhem.
The Maisie Dobbs Mysteries (Jacqueline Winspear) Maisie Dobbs got her start as a maid in an aristocratic London household when she was thirteen. Her employer, suffragette Lady Rowan Compton, soon became her patron, taking the remarkably bright youngster under her wing.
The Manor Cat Mysteries (Eliza Casey)
The Investigations of Marianne Starr (Issy Brooke)
The Marion Lane Mysteries (T. A. Willberg) A mysterious group of detectives recruited for Miss Brickett’s Investigations & Inquiries use their cunning and gadgets to solve crimes that have stumped Scotland Yard.
The Markham Sisters Mysteries (Diana Xarissa) Sisters Janet and Joan have just purchased a small bed and breakfast, Doveby House, and Janet finds herself doing her own investigating.
The Marlow Murder Club Mysteries (Robert Thorogood) Meet Judith: a seventy-seven-year-old whiskey drinking, crossword puzzle author living her best life in a dilapidated mansion on the outskirts of Marlow. Nothing ever happens in Marlow.
The Marquess of Mortiforde (Simon Whaley)
The Marsh and Daughter Mysteries (Amy Myers)
The Martha Miller Mysteries (Catherine Coles) Westleham Village 1947. It’s the Westleham village show and everyone is looking forward to a pleasant day. Newcomer Martha Miller makes her delicious homemade plum gin, but when someone dies of poisoning, fingers of suspicion point Martha’s way.
The Mary Finch Mysteries (S. S. Saywack)
The Matilda Bonelle Mysteries (Michael Malaghan)
The Max Tudor Mysteries (G. M. Malliet)
The Meadowfield Bookshop Mysteries (Agatha Frost)
The Meredith and Alec Thatch Mysteries (Rachel Ford)
The Merriweather and Royston Mysteries (Vivian Conroy)
The Merryweather Mysteries (Jenny Bankhead)
The Midburys Mysteries (Martina Thurlow) Beth has returned home to Midbury, a small town in Northumberland, England. Withersby, her grandmother’s estate, has been in the family for more than 300 years. For Beth, Withersby, her Grandmother and her cat, Simon, represent home. Beth desperately needs some peace, but what she finds is murder, and she finds it a bit too close to home.
The Midnight Witch Mysteries (Jessica Lancaster)
The Milliner Mysteries (Kate Parker) London, 1905. Talented milliner Emily Gates creates amazing hats for Society ladies, but to collect from those who don’t pay her bill, she burglarizes their homes.
The Mina Scarletti Mysteries (Linda Stratmann)
The Miss Dimont Mysteries (T. P. Fielden) It’s the late 1950s in Temple Regis, Devon. For holidaymakers it’s a time of breathtaking scenery, picnics on beaches, and flocks of tourists on their summer holidays. But for Miss Judy Dimont, it is all a trifle dull. As a reporter for local rag, The Riviera Express, she needs scandal and intrigue.
The Miss Gascoigne Mysteries (Caron Allan) England, 1960s. Diana ’Dee’ Gascoigne is an amateur detective who stumbles over dead bodies almost as often as your average dog-walker. Between jobs and with a penchant for solving a mystery, she is aided and abetted by her brother Rob, a trainee barrister.
The Miss Lamb Mysteries (Gertrude Lynley)
The Miss Marple Mysteries (Agatha Christie) This sweet little old lady is the archetype of the cozy amateur sleuth.
The Miss Merrill and Aunt Violet Mysteries (Anita Davison) Working in the dusty bookshop that her Aunt Violet mysteriously inherited, Hannah Merrill is accustomed to finding twists in every tale.
The Miss Morton Mysteries (Catherine Lloyd)
The Miss Riddell Mysteries (P. C. James) Northern England, 1953. Pauline Riddell has grand ambitions for her future at the armament factory. So, when her closest workmate reveals a salacious affair with a married man, Pauline refuses to risk her career by listening to the scandal.
The Miss Seeton Mysteries (Heron Carvic) Miss Emily D. Seeton is every inch an eccentric English spinster and the most lovable and unlikely master of detection. Originally written by Heron Carvic, the series was taken over by Hampton Charles and then Hamilton Crane.
The Miss Silver Mysteries (Patricia Wentworth)
The Miss Underhay Mysteries (Helena Dixon) June 1933. Kitty Underhay is a modern, independent woman from the top of her shingle bob to the tip of her t-strap heels. She prides herself on the reputation of her family’s ancient hotel on the blustery English coast.
The Mitford Murder Mysteries (Jessica Fellowes) It’s 1920, and Louisa Cannon takes a position within the Mitford household at Asthall Manor, in the Oxfordshire countryside. There she will become nursemaid, chaperone and confidante to the Mitford sisters.
The Monty Dog Detective Mysteries (Louisa Bennet) If you think dogs can’t understand us… think again! Monty is a perfectly rational animal (apart from his obsession with cheese). So when his beloved master is murdered, Monty decides to use his formidable nose to track the killer down.
The Most Unusual Mysteries (Katherine Black) Retired librarian and bookshop owner May Morrigan lives in the affluent village of Blackheath with Fletcher, her best friend since they met decades ago, and May’s two dogs. What could be more normal?
The Motts Cold Case Mysteries (Dahlia Donovan)
The Mr. Quayle Mysteries (Anthony Slayton) England, 1925. When a strange young woman is found murdered on the grounds of Unsworth Castle, the Earl and his family are astounded at first, but quickly become enraged when the police begin asking all sorts of impertinent questions.
The Mrs Imogene Lynch Mysteries (Hannah Ivory) England, 1895. Mrs Imogene Lynch is a willy-nilly detective who talks too much and eats too little.
Mrs. Hudson of Baker Street (Barry S. Brown)
The Mrs. Jeffries Mysteries (Emily Brightwell) Mrs. Jeffries keeps house for Inspector Witherspoon…and keeps him on his toes. Everyone’s awed by his Scotland Yard successes—but they don’t know about his secret weapon.
Mrs. Lillywhite Investigates (Emily Queen) If one more person gives Rosemary Lillywhite unwanted advice on when to stop mourning the loss of her beloved husband, she fears she will lose control of her sensibilities. But when Grace Barton knocks on the door of her dead husband’s investigative office, Rosemary faces a choice: come out of hiding or turn away someone in need of help.
The Mrs. Malory Mysteries (Hazel Holt)
The Mrs. Morley Mysteries (Laura Walker) Mrs Rita Morley is the widow of an ex-police inspector and is a dab hand at sleuthing herself, picking up many tips from her husband when he was alive as they used to work on cases together. She also has a lot of high-up connections in the police force, including inspector Hadley of Scotland yard with whom she has worked closely in the past.
The Murder Mysteries (T. M. Goble)
Murder Most British (P. B. Kolleri)
The Murder on Location Mysteries (Sara Rosett) Location scout and Jane Austen aficionado, Kate Sharp, is thrilled when the company she works for lands the job of finding locations for a new film adaptation of Pride and Prejudice, but then her boss fails to return from a scouting trip to England.
The Museum Mysteries (Jim Eldridge)
The Mycroft Holmes Mysteries (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar) The Mycroft Holmes series, starring Sherlock Holmes’ lesser known but far more talented older brother, is co-written by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Anna Waterhouse.
The Mydworth Mysteries (Costello and Richards) Sussex, England, 1929. Mydworth is a sleepy English market town just 50 miles from London. But things are about to liven up, when young Sir Harry Mortimer returns home with his unconventional American wife – Kat Reilly. These are novellas written by Matthew Costello and Neil Richards.
The Mystic Brews Mysteries (Alyn Troy) Barista April Storm jumps at the chance to help her quirky Aunt Rose open a hip café in the rural area near the Welsh and English border. But she gets an extra shot of strife when a famous deceased cricketer wants her to spill the coffee beans on his killer.
Netty and Constance Investigate (C. P. Verity)
The Nick Lawrence Mysteries (Deryn Lake)
The Nosey Parker Mysteries (Fiona Leitch) Still spinning from the hustle and bustle of city life, Jodie ‘Nosey’ Parker is glad to be back in the Cornish village she calls home.
The Olivia Steel Mysteries (Lexi Parker)
The Open Book Mysteries (Margaret Loudon)
The Ordinary Mysteries (D. D. Drew)
The Oxford Dog Walker Mysteries (Annie Dalton) Anna Hopkins survived. By day she is a part-time admin assistant at an Oxford college. By night she is obsessed with solving the sixteen-year-old murder of her entire family. Her rescue dog, Bonnie, is her companion and saviour.
The Oxford Key Mysteries (Lynn Morrison)
The Oxford Magic Kitten Mysteries (Rosemary A. Johns) Welcome to Oxford’s Magic Kitten Shelter for Familiars! Astra is a witch whose demon cat has more magical ability in his paw, than she has in her entire body.
The Oxford Tearoom Mysteries (H. Y. Hanna)
The Paranormal Investigation Bureau (Dionne Lister)
The Perkins & Tate Mysteries (Marian Babson)
The Pevensey Bay Mysteries (Diane Ezzard)
The Phyllida Bright Mysteries (Colleen Cambridge) When a dead body is found during a house party at the home of Agatha Christie and her husband Max Mallowan, it’s up to the famous author’s head of household, Phyllida Bright, to investigate.
The Plain Jane Mysteries (Trisha J. Kelly) No sooner had Jane Ingham begun to move her things into Chapel Cottage, than an incident happened in the village.
The Poison Ink Mysteries (Beth Byers) July 1936. When Georgette Dorothy Marsh’s dividends fall along with the banks, she decides to write a book. The problem is that she has so little imagination she uses her neighbors for inspiration.
The Posie Parker Mysteries (L. B. Hathaway) London 1921. When Posie Parker’s childhood friend is robbed of a priceless jewel and becomes a suspect in a cold-blooded murder case, budding detective Posie vows she will clear his name.
The Potting Shed Mysteries (Marty Wingate) Pru Parke always dreamed of living in England. And after she moves to London, she can’t imagine ever leaving. Determined to stay in her beloved adopted country, Pru takes small, private gardening jobs throughout the city.
The Pratford-upon-Avon Bookshop Mysteries (Hannah Clemson) Shakespeare lover, bookshop owner and now amateur sleuth, Beatrice Hathaway finds herself searching for answers to life’s great questions when she accidentally buys a bookshop in England.
The Prior’s Ford Mysteries (Evelyn Hood)
The Redmond and Haze Mysteries (Irina Shapiro)
The Relentless Society Mysteries (Ronda Gibb Hinrichsen)
The Renie Brien Mysteries (T. E. Scott)
The Reverend Shaw Mysteries (Hugh Morrison) England, 1930. An antiques dealer is found robbed and murdered in a train compartment on a remote branch line. A passenger on the train, the Reverend Lucian Shaw, country parson and former army chaplain, is concerned that the police have the wrong man.
The Rex Graves Mysteries (C. S. Challinor)
The Rose Simpson Mysteries (Margaret Addison) When Sir William and Lady Withers invite friends and family to a weekend house party at their country home, Ashgrove House, they are faced with the arrival of both invited and uninvited guests, the consequence of which is murder.
The Royal Spyness Mysteries (Rhys Bowen) London, 1932. Lady Victoria Georgiana Charlotte Eugenie, 34th in line for the English throne, is flat broke. She’s bolted Scotland, her greedy brother, and her fish-faced betrothed. London is a place where she’ll experience freedom.
The Ruth Morgan Mysteries (Peter Jay Black) As a freelance food consultant, Ruth Morgan travels Britain, advising restaurants, cafes, and hotels on their menus and recipes. So when she’s hired to work on board the Ocean Odyssey, she looks forward to gaining her sea legs.
The Sarah Vane Mysteries (Alice Castle)
The Seaside Bookshop Mysteries (Emily Selby)
The Shell House Detectives Mysteries (Emylia Hall)
The Shilpa Solanki Mysteries (Marissa De Luna)
The Shires Mysteries (Anna Legat)
The Silver and Simm Mysteries (Cynthia E. Hurst) Oxfordshire, 1860s. A Jewish clock repairer and a thief-turned-housemaid form an unlikely but effective team of detectives.
The Silver Lake Mysteries (Hugo James King) Join travel writer Evelyn Green in the luscious green hills of the Cotswolds as her rescue beagle keeps stumbling upon dead bodies. Read about how Eve solves murders with her small dog, Charlie, and best friend, Ruth. Written by Hugo James King and Jessica Lancaster.
The Silver Lake Mysteries (Jessica Lancaster) Join travel writer Evelyn Green in the luscious green hills of the Cotswolds as her rescue beagle keeps stumbling upon dead bodies. Read about how Eve solves murders with her small dog, Charlie, and best friend, Ruth. Written by Hugo James King and Jessica Lancaster.
The Simon Kirby-Jones Mysteries (Dean James) Amateur sleuth, Simon Kirby-Jones is looking forward to settling into his new home in the quaint British village of Snupperton—despite a few challenges. Not only is Simon an American, but he’s also a gay vampire who controls his vampiric urges and sun sensitivity with an effective medication.
The Simon Turing Mysteries (Jack Treby)
The Sleuthing Starlet Mysteries (Camilla Blythe)
The Soap Star Mysteries (C. Farren) Barbara Lucci has it all; a star on the Hollywood walk of fame and a starring role in the long-running American soap opera. But, Barbara’s soap is canceled, and she returns to her native England to stay with her mother, who runs a bed and breakfast.
The Solent Island Mysteries (A. S. McClatchie)
The Sophie Sayers Village Mysteries (Debbie Young)
The Spinsters’ Sewing Circle Mysteries (Emily Clare) The beloved new curate turns up dead the night before Valentine’s Day, stabbed through the heart with Miss Lydia Shrewsbury’s own knitting needle. But Lydia can’t shake the feeling that this crime was somehow personal. The clues suggest the curate was murdered for some terrible purpose, and everyone at the house party seems to have a motive.
The Stella and Lyndy Mysteries (Clara McKenna) Stella Kendrick takes adventure by the reins when she’s asked to attend a mysterious wedding in rural England. When she arrives, her ambitious father reveals he has arranged to give away his daughter as bride to the Earl of Atherly’s financially strapped son.
The Stephanie Rhodes Mysteries (J. L. Robinson)
The Stickleback Hollow Mysteries (C. S. Woolley)
The Sugar House Ladies Mysteries (Frank Holdaway) Permelia decided long ago that she is content being alone. She doesn’t need to be anchored to a man. And she certainly wants nothing to do with the neighborhood ladies who keep begging her to join their social club.
The Sugar Martin Vintage Mysteries (Shea MacLeod) Cocktails, capers, and corgis 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. However, everything is not as it seems, and Sugar finds herself stuck in England for the foreseeable future.
The Swaddlecombe Mysteries (Joanna Sheen) After inheriting a cottage from her aunt, Victoria West leaves her stressful London life behind and moves to the tranquil backwaters of rural Devon.
The Tea? Coffee? Murder! Mysteries (Ellen Barksdale) Cottages, English roses and rolling hills: that’s Earlsraven. Not only does young Nathalie Ames unexpectedly inherit this cosy inn from her aunt, she also falls heir to her aunt’s secret double life!
The Theodora Braithwaite Mysteries (D. M. Greenwood)
The Tom Wasp Mysteries (Amy Myers)
The Tommy & Evelyn Christie Mysteries (Catherine Coles)
The Trengillion Cornish Mysteries (Daphne Neville)
The Trixie Dolan & Evangeline Sinclair Mysteries (Marian Babson) Dame Cecile Savoy is on the way to a taxidermist’s shop, accompanied by her friends Trixie and Evangeline—and her recently departed Pekingese. When they arrive, they discover a dead body, a spreading fire, and a helpless Japanese bobtail cat in a cage.
The Utterly Crime Mysteries (Pauline Manders)
The Vampire Knitting Club: Cornwall Mysteries (Nancy Warren) Fascinated by the magic and myths in Cornwall, Boston-bred witch Jennifer Cunningham is falling in love with her new home. However, when she’s exploring a rocky beach one morning, she discovers a dead body.
The Verity Meadows Mysteries (A. J. Ford)
The Very Vintage Bride Mysteries (Julie Davenham)
The Victorian Mysteries (Robin Paige)
The Victorian Book Club Mysteries (Callie Hutton) Bath, England, 1890. Mystery author Lady Amy Lovell receives an anonymous letter containing shocking news: her fiancé, Mr. Ronald St. Vincent, has been dabbling in something illegal, which causes her to promptly break their engagement.
The Victorian Bookshop Mysteries (Kate Parker) Georgia Fenchurch is a demure Victorian spinster and part of the secretive investigative group the Archivist Society. She is both a quiet antiquarian bookseller and adventurous hunter of killers and thieves.
The Village Mysteries (Margaret Mayhew)
The Village Flower Shop Mysteries (Nancy Warren) Peony Bellefleur runs Bewitching Blooms, the charming flower shop in a picture-perfect Cotswold village in England. Her flowers seem to make the sick improve, wedding days happier, and birthdays more special because she infuses her bouquets with a little magic.
The Vita Carew Mysteries (Fran Smith) Cambridge, England, 1903. Bookish, bespectacled Vita Carew longs to be left to her scientific studies. But, to her chagrin, she cannot avoid the event of the season, a gala at Pemberton Hall.
Viviane’s Adventures (Vikki Walton)
The Walker Mysteries (Andrew White)
The Waterwheel Café Mysteries (Victoria Tait)
The We Sit Pets Mysteries (Matthew Ross) An ambitious high-achieving young woman, her brother – a charming slacker getting by on good looks and charisma, an out-of-control unstoppable terrier called Winkle, and a popular social media star bludgeoned to death. Who ever said pet-sitting would be a walk in the park?
The Westford Bay B&B Mysteries (Nic Roberts) Leaving London behind, Ally Wescott finds herself running the B&B her grandfather left her in his will. The small village of Westford is quiet, quaint and picturesque and the locals seem to all know each other.
The Whitstable Pearl Mysteries (Julie Wassmer)
The Wicked Witches of Coventry (Sara Bourgeois)
The Wimsey & Vane Mysteries (Jill Paton Walsh) Lord Peter and Lady Harriet Wimsey are British detectives who solve mysteries for their amusement. The characters were created by Dorothy L. Sayers in her original Wimsey series, and Jill Paton Walsh used her notes to continue the story.
The Winterbourne Witches Mysteries (Suzy Turner)
The Witch P.I. Mysteries (Adele Abbott) Jill Gooder is a private investigator, having taken over the family business some years ago when her adoptive father died. When Jill gets a call to say that her birth mother was dying, and Jill dashed to her bedside just in time to hear her dying words: You’re a witch.
The Wodehouse Mysteries (Trisha J. Kelly)
The Women of World War II Mysteries (Tessa Arlen) England, 1942. Poppy Redfern is her remote English village’s Air Raid Warden and her family farm has been requisitioned as a new airfield for the American Air Force. The mistrust and suspicion of their new American partners in war threatens to tear their village apart.
The Wonky Inn Mysteries (Jeannie Wycherley)
The Woodford Mysteries (Kathy Morgan)
The Zee Town Mysteries (K. E. O’Connor) Welcome to Zee Town, Cornwall’s haven for placid zombies. The tourists love to visit this beautiful British seaside paradise. And the friendly zombies who live here enjoy the sunshine, beach, and ice cream too!