Multiple main characters, team dynamics
2021 · 5 seasons · Disney+
Set in the fictional Arconia, an opulent Upper West Side apartment building in New York City, Only Murders in the Building follows three strangers—washed-up actor Charles-Haden Savage, flamboyant theatre director Oliver Putnam, and mysterious young resident Mabel Mora—who bond over a shared obsession with true crime podcasts, only to find themselves investigating an actual murder within their own building.
2005 · 12 seasons
et in Washington, D.C., Bones follows Dr Temperance "Bones" Brennan, a brilliant but socially awkward forensic anthropologist at the Jeffersonian Institution
2013 · 5 seasons
Set in the goldfields city of Ballarat, Victoria, in the late 1950s, The Doctor Blake Mysteries follows Dr Lucien Blake, who returns home after a thirty-year absence to take over his late father's general medical practice
2014 · 12 seasons
Set in the fictional small North Island town of Brokenwood, this quirky New Zealand whodunit follows Detective Inspector Mike Shepherd, a country-music-loving veteran detective with a colourful romantic history, who investigates an implausibly high murder rate amongst Brokenwood's eccentric residents
2011 · 15 seasons · BBC
Set on the fictional Caribbean island of Saint Marie, Death in Paradise follows a succession of British detectives who, thrown into leading the local police force under very different circumstances, find themselves solving ingenious, locked-room-style murders against a backdrop of shimmering seas and sun-soaked beaches. Each detective brings his own quirks and quirks to the role
2004 · 12 seasons · BBC
When three retired detectives are brought back to form the Unsolved Crime and Open Case Squad (UCOS), their old-school methods clash with modern policing but prove surprisingly effective at cracking cold cases. Led by a determined DCI who must wrangle these stubborn, brilliant mavericks, the team discovers that you can teach old dogs new tricks - even if they resist every step of the way.
2019 · 2 seasons · Channel 4, U
Detective Sergeant Matilda "Mattie" Stone returns to her hometown of Wildemarsh to work for the local constabulary, where she's reunited with her three crime-writing aunts who raised her after her mother's mysterious disappearance. Between investigating murders that range from the curious to the bizarre, the three aunts also attempt to help their perennially single niece find love.
A Remarkable Place to Die is a New Zealand-Australian crime drama in which Detective Anaís Mallory leaves her career with the Sydney police and returns to her hometown of Queenstown on New Zealand’s South Island
2024 · 3 seasons · BBC
Set in the idyllic coastal hamlet of Dolphin Cove on Australia's Illawarra coast, Return to Paradise follows Mackenzie "Mack" Clarke, a golden girl of the London Metropolitan Police whose seemingly unrivalled detective instincts are overshadowed by a career-ending scandal, forcing her to return to the childhood home—and the murky past—she left behind six years earlier.
2025 · 1 season · BBC
England, 1936. After a scandalous celebrity divorce, tennis star Nevile Strange and his ex-wife Audrey make the surprising decision to spend a summer together at Gull’s Point, the clifftop home of Nevile’s formidable aunt, Lady Tressilian, alongside his new wife Kay.
2026 · 1 season · ITV
