Humor, cozy feel, low stakes, comforting
Set in the fictional village of Blossom Vale in the West Midlands during the 1970s, The Hairdresser Mysteries follows Lily Petal, a high-end London hair stylist who trades the competitive city scene for a small salon at the top of a quiet cobbled street.
After a botched sting operation, and denied his imminent retirement, DI Crabbe is suspended from the police and opens his own restaurant. However, his ex-boss, Assistant Chief Constable Freddy Fisher, constantly calls him back on duty.
Set in 1870s Oxford, Young Sherlock follows a disgraced 19-year-old Sherlock Holmes—raw, unfiltered, and lacking discipline—as he finds himself embroiled in a murder investigation that threatens his liberty.
Set in the fictional Cotswold village of Kembleford in the early 1950s, Father Brown follows a slightly rumpled, mild-mannered Catholic priest whose apparent innocence and unassuming manner belie a razor-sharp intellect and profound understanding of human nature.
Henrietta "Hetty" Wainthropp represents a unique figure in British detective fiction—a woman of ordinary means and background who possesses extraordinary observational skills and an unerring instinct for human nature.
Brought together by professional and personal heartache, two plucky ladies plant the seeds for a brighter future. Rosemary Boxer, with a doctorate in plant pathology, and Laura Thyme, a former police constable and avid gardener, discover their shared love of green-thumbness and start a gardening business.
Frank Hathaway, a hardboiled private investigator, and his rookie sidekick Lu Shakespeare form the unlikeliest of partnerships as they investigate the secrets of rural Warwickshire's residents.
Set in the fictional North Yorkshire village of Aidensfield during the 1960s, Heartbeat follows the lives and adventures of rural police constables, medical staff, and village residents in a nostalgic period drama that combines gentle crime stories with community tales.
Beyond Paradise follows Detective Inspector Humphrey Goodman who, after leaving the Caribbean island of Saint Marie, relocates to the fictional coastal town of Shipton Abbott in Devon to be with his fiancée Martha Lloyd.
Set in Slough, Berkshire, Mrs Sidhu Investigates follows the recently widowed Mrs. Sidhu, a high-end caterer with a taste for crime and her own Indian Aunty brand of nosy sleuthing.
Set on the picturesque island of Jersey, Bergerac follows Detective Sergeant Jim Bergerac, a recovering alcoholic and divorced father who works for Le Bureau des Étrangers (The Foreigners' Office), investigating crimes involving non-Jersey residents. Unorthodox and maverick in his methods, Bergerac navigates complex cases among Jersey's wealthy tax exiles and criminals while driving his iconic burgundy 1947 Triumph Roadster.
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.
The Mallorca Files follows the unlikely partnership between Miranda Blake, a serious, by-the-book British detective, and Max Winter, a laid-back, unconventional German detective
Set in the fictional South Devon coastal town of Lighthaven, The Coroner follows Jane Kennedy, a high-flying solicitor who returns to the seaside town she left as a teenager following the breakdown of a relationship, taking up the post of coroner and becoming an advocate for the dead.
Widowed English nurse Joan Kirkhope is on a quest to find answers about her husband's mysterious death, while ex-detective Jack Darby has taken to the open road to escape his past.
Former police detective Jack Grayling, pursuing his dream of becoming a cabaret singer on a luxury Mediterranean cruise ship, investigates a series of murders on board with the help of the ship's first officer, Kate Woods.
Set in the sun-soaked Spanish holiday resort of Benidorm, Benidorm Is Murder follows Dennis Crown, a burned-out former British detective who traded the daily grind of UK policing for a quieter life running a bar, only to find peace short-lived when tourists start turning up dead.
Set in 1920s and 1930s England across country estates, London gentlemen's clubs, and rural villages, Lord Peter Wimsey follows an aristocratic amateur detective
