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British Mysteries
Mysteries set in England, Scotland, or Wales.
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Authors & Titles
- Aird, Catherine: CD Sloan series

- The Religious Body

- Henrietta Who?

- The Stately Home Murder

- A Late Phoenix

- His Burial Too

- Slight Mourning

- Parting Breath

- Some Die Eloquent

- Passing Strange

- Last Respects

- Harm's Way

- A Dead Liberty

- The Body Politic

- A Going Concern

- After Effects

- Stiff News

- Little Knell

- Amendment of Life

- Hole in One

(short stories) Injury Time 
(short stories) Chapter and Hearse 
- Airth, Rennie: John Madden series

- River of Darkness

- The Blood-Dimmed Tide

- Anderson, James: Inspector Wilkins series
- The Affair of the Bloodstained Egg Cosy

- The Affair of the Mutilated Mink

- The Affair of the 39 Cufflinks

- Armstrong, Vivien: Smile Now, Die Later

- Arnott, Jake: Tony Meehan series

- The Long Firm

- He Kills Coppers

- Truecrime

- Ashford, Jeffrey: An Honest Betrayal

- Ashford, Jeffrey: Illegal Guilt

- Ashford, Jeffrey: Looking-Glass Justice

- Ashford, Jeffrey: A Truthful Injustice

- Atkinson, Kate: Case Histories

- Baker, Donna: Painted Lady

- Bannister, Jo: Castlemere series
- A Bleeding of Innocents

- Charisma

- A Taste for Burning

- No Birds Sing

- Broken Lines

- The Hireling's Tale

- Changelings

- Bannister, Jo: Clio Rees and Harry Marsh series
- Striving With Gods

- Gilgamesh

- The Going Down of the Sun

- The Fifth Cataract

- Bannister, Jo: Brodie Farrell series
- Echoes of Lies

- True Witness

- Reflections

- The Depths of Solitude

- Breaking Faith

- Requiem for a Dealer

- Flawed

- Bannister, Jo: Fathers and Sins

- Bannister, Jo: The Tinderbox

- Barnard, Robert: Charlie Peace series

- Death and the Chaste Apprentice

- A Fatal Attachment

- A Hovering of Vultures

- The Bad Samaritan

- The Corpse at the Haworth Tandoori

- Unholy Dying

- The Bones in the Attic

- The Mistress of Alderley

- The Graveyard Position

(related title) A City of Strangers (features Mike Oddie, a character from the Charlie Peace series) 
- Barnard, Robert: A Cry From the Dark

- Barnard, Robert: A Murder in Mayfair

- Beaton, M.C.: Hamish Macbeth series
- Death of a Gossip

- Death Of a Cad

- Death of an Outsider

- Death of a Perfect Wife

- Death of a Hussy

- Death of a Snob

- Death of a Prankster

- Death of a Glutton

- Death of a Travelling Man

- Death of a Charming Man

- Death of a Nag

- Death of a Macho Man

- Death of a Dentist

- Death of a Scriptwriter

- Death of an Addict

- A Highland Christmas

- Death of a Dustman

- Death of a Celebrity

- Death of a Village

- Death of a Poison Pen

- Death of an Outsider

- Death of a Bore

- Death of a Dreamer

- Death of a Maid

- Death of a Gentle Lady

(DVD) Hamish Macbeth Season One 
(DVD) Hamish Macbeth Season Two 
- Bolitho, Janie: Rose Trevelyan series
- Snapped in Cornwall

- Framed in Cornwall

- Buried in Cornwall

- Betrayed in Cornwall

- Plotted in Cornwall

- Killed in Cornwall

- Bonner, Hilary: Karen Meadows & John Kelly series

- When the Dead Cry Out

- No Reason to Die

- A Moment of Madness

- Booth, Stephen: Ben Cooper & Diane Fry series
- Black Dog

- Dancing With the Virgins

- Blood on the Tongue

- Blind to the Bones

- One Last Breath

- Bowen, Rhys: Constable Evans series
- Evans Above

- Evan Help Us

- Evanly Choirs

- Evan and Elle

- Evan Can Wait

- Evans to Besty

- Evan Only Knows

- Evan's Gate

- Evanly Bodies

- Brett, Simon: Charles Paris series
- Cast, In Order of Disappearance

- So Much Blood

- Star Trap

- An Amateur Corpse

- A Comedian Dies

- The Dead Side of the Mike

- Situation Tragedy

- Murder Unprompted

- Murder in the Title

- Not Dead, Only Resting

- Dead Giveaway

- What Bloody Man is That?

- A Series of Murders

- Corporate Bodies

- A Reconstructed Corpse

- Sicken and So Die

- Dead Room Farce

- Brett, Simon: Fethering series
- The Body on the Beach

- Death on the Downs

- The Torso in the Town

- Murder in the Museum

- The Hanging in the Hotel

- The Witness at the Wedding

- The Stabbing in the Stables

- Death Under the Dryer

- Broadbent, Tony: The Smoke

- Bruce, Leo: Sergeant Beef series

- Case for Three Detectives

- Case Without a Corpse

- Case With Four Clowns

- Case With No Conclusion

- Case With Ropes and Rings

- The Case For Sergeant Beef

- Neck and Neck

- Cold Blood

- Bruce, Leo: Carolus Deene series

- At Death's Door
- Death of a Cold
- Death for a Ducat
- A Louse for the Hangman
- Dead Man's Shoes

- Our Jubilee is Death

- Jack on the Gallows Tree

- Furious Old Women

- A Bone and a Hank of Hair

- Die All, Die Merrily

- Nothing Like Blood

- Such is Death

- Death in Albert Park

- Death at Hallows End

- Death on the Black Sands
- Death of a Commuter

- Death at St. Asprey's School

- Death on Romney Marsh
- Death With Blue Ribbon

- Death on Allhallowe'en

- Death by the Lake

- Death of a Bovver Boy
- Death in the Middle Watch

- Butler, Gwendoline: Coffin series
- Dead in a Row
- The Dull Dead

- The Murdering Kind
- Death Lives Next Door

- Make Me a Murderer

- Coffin in Oxford
- A Coffin for Baby

- Coffin Waiting

- A Nameless Coffin

- Coffin Following

- Coffin's Dark Number

- A Coffin From the Past

- A Coffin for the Canary

- Coffin on the Water

- Coffin in Fashion

- Coffin Underground

- Coffin in the Black Museum

- Coffin in the Museum of Crime

- Coffin and the Paper Man

- Coffin on Murder Street

- Cracking Open a Coffin

- A Coffin for Charley

- The Coffin Tree

- A Dark Coffin

- A Double Coffin

- Coffin's Game

- A Grave Coffin

- Coffin's Ghost

- Carter, Maureen: Bev Morriss series

- Working Girls

- Dead Old

- Baby Love

- Hard Time

- Chan, Cassandra: Gibbons and Bethancourt series

- The Young Widow

- Charles, Paul: Inspector Christy Kennedy series
- Last Boat to Camden Town

- I Love the Sound of Breaking Glass

- Fountain of Sorrow

- The Ballad of Sean and Wilko

- The Hissing of the Silent Lonely Room

- I've Heard the Banshee Sing

- The Justice Factory

- Sweetwater


- Chesney, Marion: Rose Summer & Harry Cathcart series (aka Edwardian Murder Mystery series)
- Snobbery With Violence

- Hasty Death

- Sick of Shadows

- Our Lady of Pain

- Cook, Judith: John Latymer series
- Dead Ringer

- Worm in the Bud

- Cooper, Natasha: Willow King series
- A Common Death

- Poison Flowers

- Bloody Roses

- Bitter Herbs

- Rotten Apples

- The Drowning Pool

- Sour Grapes

- Corley, Elizabeth: Andrew Fenwick series
- Fatal Legacy

- Coward, Mat: Don Packham & Frank Mitchell series
- Up and Down

- In and Out

- Over and Under

- Open and Closed

- Cracker series (various authors)
- Cracker: To Say I Love You by Molly Brown

- Cracker: The Mad Woman in the Attic by Jim Mortimore

- Cracker: One Day a Lemming Will Fly by Liz Holliday

- Cracker: To Be a Somebody by Gareth Roberts

- Cracker: Best Boys by Gareth Roberts

- Craig, David: Sally Bithron series

- Hear Me Talking To You

- Tip Top

- Crombie, Deborah: Duncan Kincaid & Gemma James series
- A Share in Death

- All Shall Be Well

- Leave the Grave Green

- Mourn Not Your Dead

- Dreaming of the Bones

- Kissed a Sad Goodbye

- A Finer End

- And Justice There Is None

- Now May You Weep

- In a Dark House

- Water Like a Stone

- Curzon, Clare: Thames Valley series (aka Mike Yeadings series)
- I Give You Five Days

- Masks and Faces

- The Trojan Hearse

- The Quest for K

- Three-Core Lead

- The Blue-Eyed Boy

- Cat's Cradle

- First Wife, Twice Removed

- Death Prone

- Nice People

- Past Mischief

- Close Quarters

- All Unwary

- Cold Hands

- Don't Leave Me

- The Body of a Woman

- A Meeting of Minds

- Last to Leave

- Cutler, Judith: Kate Power series
- Power on Her Own

- Staying Power

- Davies, Freda: Keith Tyrell series
- A Fine and Private Place

- Bound in Shallows

- Davison, Philip: Harry Fielding series
- The Crooked Man

- McKenzie's Friend

- Deere, Dicey: Torrey Tunet series
- The Irish Cottage Murder

- The Irish Manor House Murder

- The Irish Cairn Murder

- The Irish Village Murder

- Dewhurst, Eileen: Phyllida Moon series
- Now You See Her

- The Verdict on Winter

- Alias the Enemy

- Roundabout

- Closing Stages

- No Love Lost

- Dexter, Colin: Inspector Morse series
- Last Bus to Woodstock

- Last Seen Waiting

- The Silent World of Nicholas Quinn

- Service of All the Dead

- The Dead of Jericho

- The Riddle of the Third Mile

- The Secret of Annexe 3

- The Wench is Dead

- The Jewel That Was Ours

- The Way Through the Woods

- Morse's Greatest Mystery and Other Stories

- The Daughters of Cain

- Death is Now My Neighbor

- The Remorseful Day

- Dunn, Hilda: The Hanged Man

- Eccles, Marjorie: Superintendant Gil Mayo series
- Cast a Cold Eye

- Death of a Good Woman

- Requiem for a Dove

- More Deaths Than One

- Late of This Parish

- The Company She Kept

- An Accidental Shroud

- A Death of Distinction

- A Species of Revenge

- Killing Me Softly

- The Superintendent's Daughter

- A Sunset Touch

- Untimely Graves

- Eccles, Marjorie: Tom Richmonds series
- Echoes of Silence

- Edwards, Martin: Daniel Kind series
- The Coffin Trail

- The Cipher Garden

- The Arsenic Labyrinth

- Edwards, Martin: Harry Devlin series

- All the Lonely People

- Suspicious Minds

- I Remember You

- Yesterday's Papers

- Eve of Destruction

- The Devil in Disguise

- The First Cut is the Deepest

- Waterloo Sunset

- Edwards, Martin: Take My Breath Away

- Edwards, Ruth Dudley: Robert Amiss series

- Corridors of Death

- The Saint Valentine's Day Murders

- The English School of Murder

- Clubbed to Death

- Matricide at St. Martha's

- Ten Lords A-Leaping

- Murder in a Cathedral

- Publish and Be Murdered

- The Anglo-Irish Murders

- Carnage on the Committee

- Murdering Americans

- Ellis, Kate: Wesley Peterson series
- The Merchant House

- The Armada Boy

- An Unhallowed Grave

- The Funeral Boat

- The Bone Garden

- Etchells, Olive: No Corners for the Devil

- Evans, Geraldine: Casey & Catts series
- Up in Flames

- Evans, Geraldine: Rafferty & Llewellyn series
- Dead Before Morning

- Down Among the Dead Men

- Death Line

- The Hanging Tree

- Absolute Poison

- Dying for You

- Forbes, Elena: Die With Me

- Forsythe, Malcolm: Millson & Scobie series
(Note: the order of titles in this series is unconfirmed.)
- Only Living Witness

- Last Known Address

- The Book Lady

- Fatal Reunion

- Death of a Secretary

- Fowler, Christopher: Arthur Bryant & John May series
- Full Dark House

- The Water Room

- Seventy-Seven Clocks


- Ten Second Staircase

- Francis, Clare: A Dark Devotion

- Fraser, Anthea: Rona Parish series
- Brought to Book

- Person or Persons Unknown

- Fraser, Anthea: Chief Inspector Webb series
- A Shroud for Delilah

- A Necessary End

- Pretty Maids All in a Row

- Death Speaks Softly

- The Nine Bright Shiners

- Six Proud Walkers

- The April Rainers

- Symbols At Your Door

- The Lily-White Boys
- Three, Three, The Rivals

- The Gospel Makers

- The Seven Stars

- One is One and All Alone

- The Ten Commandments

- Eleven That Went Up to Heaven

- Fraser, Anthea: Jigsaw

- Gardner, John: Suzie Montford & Tommy Livermore series
- Bottled Spider

- The Streets of Town

- George, Elizabeth: Thomas Lynley & Barbara Havers series
- A Great Deliverance

- Payment in Blood

- Well-Schooled in Murder

- A Suitable Vengeance

- For the Sake of Elena

- Missing Joseph

- Playing For the Ashes

- In the Presence of the Enemy

- Deception on His Mind

- In Pursuit of the Proper Sinner

- A Traitor to Memory

- With No One as Witness

(short stories) I, Richard 
(related title) What Came Before He Shot Her

- Graham, Caroline: Chief Inspector Barnaby series
- The Killings at Badger's Drift

- Death of a Hollow Man

- Death in Disguise

- Written in Blood

- Faithful Unto Death

- A Place of Safety

- A Ghost in the Machine

- Granger, Ann: Mitchell and Markby series
- Say It with Poison

- A Season for Murder

- Cold in the Earth

- Murder Among Us

- Where Old Bones Lie

- A Fine Place for Death

- Flowers For His Funeral

- Candle for a Corpse

- A Touch of Mortality

- A Word After Dying

- Call the Dead Again

- Beneath These Stones

- Shades of Murder

- A Restless Evil

- That Way Murder Lies

- Granger, Pip: No Peace for the Wicked

- Granger, Pip: Rosie series
(prequel) Trouble in Paradise

- Not All Tarts Are Apple

- The Widow Ginger

- Green, Christine: Fatal Cut

- Green, Christine: Fire Angels

- Gregson, J.M.: Lambert & Hook series
- Murder at the Nineteenth

- For Sale -- with Corpse

- Bring Forth Your Dead

- Dead on Course

- The Fox in the Forest

- Stranglehold

- Watermarked

- Death of a Nobody

- Accident by Design

- Body Politic

- Girl Gone Missing

- Malice Aforethought

- Death on the Eleventh Hole

- Just Desserts

- Gregson, J.M.: Percy Peach series (in order by publication date)
- Who Saw Him Die?

- Missing Presumed Dead

- To Kill a Wife

- A Turbulent Priest

- The Lancashire Leopard

- A Little Learning

- Murder at the Lodge

- Wages of Sin

- Dusty Death

- Grimes, Martha: Richard Jury series
- The Man with a Load of Mischief

- The Old Fox Deceiv'd

- The Anodyne Necklace

- The Dirty Duck

- Jerusalem Inn

- Help the Poor Struggler

- The Deer Leap

- I Am the Only Running Footman

- The Five Bells and Bladebone

- The Old Silent

- The Old Contemptibles

- The Horse You Came In On

- Rainbow's End

- The Case Has Altered

- The Stargazey

- The Lamorna Wink

- The Blue Last

- The Grave Maurice

- The Winds of Change

- The Old Wine Shades

- Dust

- Hall, Patricia: Yorkshire series (aka Thackeray & Ackroyd series)
- The Poison Pool

- The Coldness of Killers
- Death By Election

- Dying Fall

- The Dead of Winter

- Perils of the Night

- The Italian Girl

- Dead on Arrival

- Skeleton at the Feast

- Deep Freeze

- Death in Dark Waters

- Dead Reckoning

- Hammond, Gerald: Grail for Sale

- Hammond, Gerald: Loving Memory

- Harrison, Sarah: A Dangerous Thing

- Harrod-Eagles, Cynthia: Bill Slider series
- Orchestrated Death

- Death Watch

- Death to Go

- Grave Music

- Blood Lines

- Killing Time

- Shallow Grave

- Blood Sinister

- Gone Tomorrow

- Harvey, John: Frank Elder series
- Flesh and Blood

- Ash and Bone

- Darkness and Light

- Harvey, John: Gone to Ground

- Harwin, Patricia: Far Wychwood series

- Arson and Old Lace

- Slaying is Such Sweet Sorrow

- Heley, Veronica: Abbot Agency series

- False Charity

- Heley, Veronica: Ellie Quicke series
- Murder at the Altar

- Murder by Suicide

- Murder of Innocence

- Murder by Accident

- Murder in the Garden

- Murder by Committee

- Murder by Bicycle

- Murder of Identity

- Murder in the Park

- Helton, Peter: Chris Honeysett series

- Headcase

- Slim Chance

- Herron, Mick: Zoe Boehm series
- Down Cemetery Road

- The Last Voice You Hear

- Why We Die

- Hill, Pamela: The Small Black Knife

- Hill, Reginald: Andrew Dalziel and Peter Pascoe series
- A Clubbable Woman

- An Advancement of Learning

- Ruling Passion

- An April Shroud

- A Pinch of Snuff

- A Killing Kindness

- Deadheads

- Exit Lines

- Child's Play

- Underworld

- Bones and Silence

- One Small Step
- Recalled to Life

- Pictures of Perfection

- The Wood Beyond

- On Beulah Height

- Arms and the Women

- Dialogues of the Dead

- Death's Jest-Book

- Good Morning, Midnight

- Death Comes for the Fat Man

(short stories) Pascoe's Ghost 
(short stories) There Are No Ghosts in the Soviet Union 
(short stories) Asking for the Moon 
- Hill, Reginald: Joe Sixsmith series
- Blood Sympathy

- Born Guilty

- Killing the Lawyers

- Singing the Sadness

- Hill, Susan: Simon Serrailler series

- The Various Haunts of Men

- The Pure in Heart

- Ison, Graham: Brock & Poole series

- Working Girl

- Light Fantastic

- Whiplash

- Ison, Graham: Hardcastle series

- Hardcastle's Spy

- Hardcastle's Armistice

- Hardcastle's Conspiracy

- James, Bill: Between Lives

- James, Bill: Harpur and Iles series
- You'd Better Believe It

- The Lolita Man

- Halo Parade

- Protection

- Come Clean

- Take

- Club

- Astride a Grave

- Gospel

- Roses, Roses

- In Good Hands

- The Detective is Dead

- Top Banana

- Panicking Ralph

- Lovely Mover

- Eton Crop

- Kill Me

- Naked at the Window

- The Girl with the Long Back

- Easy Streets

- Wolves of Memory

- Girls

(short stories) The Sixth Man and Other Stories 
- James, Bill: Middleman

- James, P.D.: Adam Dalgliesh series
- Cover Her Face

- A Mind to Murder

- Unnatural Causes

- Shroud for a Nightingale

- The Black Tower

- Death of an Expert Witness

- A Taste for Death

- Devices and Desires

- Original Sin

- A Certain Justice

- Death in Holy Orders

- The Murder Room

- The Lighthouse

- James, P.D.: Cordelia Gray series
(prequel) Unnatural Causes 
(prequel) The Black Tower 
- An Unsuitable Job for a Woman

- The Skull Beneath the Skin

- Jamesson, Peter: Chief Inspector St. George series
- Unplayable Lie

- Jardine, Quintin: Oz Blackstone series
- Blackstone's Pursuits

- A Coffin for Two

- Wearing Purple

- Screen Savers

- On Honeymoon With Death

- Poisoned Cherries

- Unnatural Justice

- Alarm Call

- For the Death of Me

- Jardine, Quintin: Robert (Bob)Skinner series
- Skinner's Rules

- Skinner's Festival

- Skinner's Trail

- Skinner's Round

- Skinner's Ordeal

- Skinner's Mission

- Skinner's Ghosts

- Murmuring the Judges

- Gallery Whispers

- Thursday Legends

- Autographs in the Rain

- Head Shot

- Fallen Gods

- Stay of Execution

- Lethal Intent

- Dead and Buried

- Death's Door

- Joss, Morag: Sara Selkirk series
- Funeral Music

- Fearful Symmetry

- Fruitful Bodies

- Keating, H.R.F.: Harriet Martens series
- The Hard Detective

- A Detective in Love

- A Detective Under Fire

- The Dreaming Detective

- A Detective at Death's Door

- One Man and His Bomb

- Kelly, Susan: Gregory Summers series
- The Lone Traveller

- Killing the Fatted Calf

- Little Girl Lost

- Kernick, Simon: London Gangland series
- The Business of Dying

- The Murder Exchange

- The Crime Trade

- A Good Day to Die

- Lawrence, David: Stella Mooney series
- The Dead Sit Round in a Ring

- Nothing Like the Night

- Cold Kill

- Down Into Darkness

- Lawton, John: Inspector Troy series (in order of publication)
- Black Out

- Old Flames

- A Little White Death

- Bluffing Mr. Churchill
(aka Riptide
)
- Flesh Wounds

- Layton, Clare: Clutch of Phantoms

- Lewis, Roy: Arnold Landon series
- A Gathering of Ghosts

- Most Cunning Workmen

- A Trout in the Milk

- Men of Subtle Craft

- The Devil is Dead

- A Wisp of Smoke

- A Secret Dying

- Bloodeagle

- The Cross Bearer

- A Short-Lived Ghost

- Angel of Death

- Dead Secret

- Headhunter

- Grave Error

- Litt, Toby: Corpsing

- Longworth, Gay: Detective Inspector Jessie Driver series
- Dead Alone

- The Unquiet Dead

- Lovesey, Peter: Peter Diamond series
- The Last Detective

- Diamond Solitaire

- The Summons

- Bloodhounds

- Upon a Dark Night

- The Vault

- Diamond Dust

- The House Sitter (also features Henrietta Mallin, see below)

(related title) Peter Diamond appears in The Circle 
- Lovesey, Peter: Henrietta ("Hen") Mallin series

- The House Sitter

- The Circle

- The Headhunters

- Lovesey, Peter: The Reaper

- Lyons, Genevieve: The Drowning of Alison Alyward

- MacDonald, Marianne: Dido Hoare series
- Death's Autograph

- Ghost Walk

- Smoke Screen

- Road Kill

- Blood Lies

- Die Once

- Magson, Adrian: Riley Gavin & Frank Palmer series

- No Peace for the Wicked

- No Help for the Dying

- No Sleep for the Dead

- No Tears for the Lost

- Maitland, Barry: Kathy Kolla and David Brock series
- The Marx Sisters

- The Malcontenta

- All My Enemies
