Looking for good British mysterys. Have read many and just love them.
Looking for good British mysterys. Have read many and just love them.
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Looking for good British mysterys. Have read many and just love them.
The English Wife by Lauren Willig and The Death of Mrs. Westaway by Ruth Ware.
Do you know Kate Ellis? One of my favourite writers. So is Ellis Peters (medieval mysteries). Stephen Boot has a series about detectives in Derbyshire.
Ann Cleeves. She has 4 different series.
Shetland ?
Caroline Graham has written some really good mysteries that take such odd twists and turns with the characters. Her books became the basis for “Midsomer Murders” on PBS
Jacqueline Winspear. WWI mysteries.
MC Beaton’s Agatha Raisin is the best imho
@Denise and can be laugh out loud funny in addition to a good mystery!
Roy Grace series is brilliant its by Peter James.
Elizabeth George writes detailed, beautiful British mysteries.
MC Beaton mysteries about Hamish MCBeth are the best!
The Lewis Trilogy by Peter May – excellent Skye, Lewis & Harris
Anything by PD James
Martha Grimes
Anne Perry
Agatha Christie
Dorothy l sayers
Peter Wimsey. <3
Susan Elias McNeal’s Maggie Hope mysteries are terrific!
Ruth Ware is a British Author and her mysteries are fantastic!
writing down all these suggestions and off to the library today!
Set in Scotland…great characters and brilliant plots. This is gritty and gripping – edge of your seat – but the author has a sensitive approach which makes it an easy read. His dry humour really lifts it. This is not even my preferred genre but I’m addicted!!!Need I say more!!!
http://author.to/OwenMullen
Ooh, I just recently got Games People Play as a kindle daily deal. I got it bc it was set in Scotland. Now I’m really looking forward to it… but have a few others to finish up first. I usually have a couple books going at once, but can’t get TOO many!
You’ll love it Micki… Let me know!
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My Mom is a huge Anne Perry fan. Give Anne a try.
I have been enjoying the Flavia DeLuce series (Alan Bradley)
Christopher Flowler the May and Bryant series. Great characters and plots and that wonderful Brit humor.
Ruth Rendell,Jacquiline Windspear , Alexander McCall( he’s Scottish),the Inspector Rutledge and Bess Crawford by a mother and son team…
YES!!!
M.C. Beaton’s Agatha Raisin. Cozy mysteries at their best.
Peter Robinson, Faith Martin (especially her Hillary Greene books), Ian Rankin, I could go on and on, but this should help get you started!
Peter James..has several series, but my favourite ones are the the Roy Grace series. He is a British Inspector they are great books set in the UK
Hate to sound obvious but have you tried Agatha Christie?
Catherine Cookson is great for Historical fiction books.
GM Malliet’s Max Tudor series, Anne Cleeves’ Shetland or Vera series, Caroline Graham’s Barnaby series. Louise Penny’s Three Pines series actually takes place in Canada but has the same sort of feel.
Shetland ?! And Louise Penny is awesome but the misery of having to wait a whole year for each next title is terribly unfair ?
@Linda, I’m actually reading Kingdom of the Blind now because I finally got it from my library. I was number 20 something in the hold queue.
@Shanna I just finished it, had to wait a long time too. Now what to do until August?? ?
@Linda, did you read the acknowledgements at the end of Kingdom of the Blind? Did you get the impression there might not be another one?
@Shanna Yes & it wasn’t clear to me. I thought she said she’d expected to quit after her husband died, but didn’t. But she dispensed with Jean-Guy, then sent him & Annie to Paris, so now both Gamache kids live there plus grandkids. That might be a new setup…?
However there’s this,
due out in August, but don’t know what’s up.
@Linda, agreed. I was sad when she moved Jean-Guy to Paris. He wasn’t always a likeable character, but he was always there. Maybe a new second in command? Also, do you think Isabelle is going to make a full recovery?
Ooh, I didn’t know there was one due out in August!
@Shanna Isabelle will be totally fine! I love Jean-Guy because of his conflictedness…
Yes, more mysteries lie ahead. ?
Shanna Allen I asked at the library if I could request A Better Man & they rolled on the floor laughing ?…I forgot it’s only March.
@Linda, maybe just a bit early for pre-sales ?
Miss Seeton mysteries
Lord Peter Wimsey books by Dorothy L. Sayers.
Brother Cadfael mysteries by Ellis Peters.
Adam Dalgliesh books by P.D. James.
If you like Ellis Peters, you’ll love Candace Robb!
Sergeant Cribb books by Peter Lovesey.
Marcus Didius Falco books by Lindsey Davis.
Sorry–also not British! I got on a roll and couldn’t stop myself. ?
Classic Mystery: Jaqueline Winspear, Patricia Wentworth, Margery Allingham, Dorothy Sayers, George Bellairs
Modern Mystery: PD James, Deborah Crombie, Barry Maitland, Agatha Christie, Elizabeth George
Gordianus the Finder books by Steven Saylor.
Oh, sorry–that one is not a British mystery series!
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Martha Grimes, Father Brown
P.D. James!
Carola Dunn’s Daisy Dalrymple Mysteries.
Elizabeth George. Peter James.
Elly Griffiths has a great series set in England.
The Butterfly conspiracy, The Silent in the Grave series by Deanna Raybourn also the Veronica Speedwell series. The Lady Sherlock series by Sherry Thomas, and the Miss Silver series by Patricia Wentworth.
The Silent Patient by Alex Michailides
Just finished I Found You by Lisa Jewell and it was hands down my favorite suspense/mystery genre I’ve read in ages.
https://www.ashley-weaver.com/
https://www.alyssamaxwell.com/ladys-maid-books
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/7814110.D_E_Ireland
Although the authors are American, the series listed above take place in Britain.
https://ellygriffiths.co.uk/my-books/the-ruth-galloway-novels/
http://yslee.com/
http://sheilaconnolly.com/county-cork-mysteries.php
Look up http://stopyourekillingme.com/ to see lists of the works of just about every mystery writer. Either bt name or character.
Try Jacqueline Windspear, first book in the series is Maisie Dobs. Great read and series!
I do love Maisie Dobs.
Hamish mcbeth is it (?) Love those ones and the Agatha raisin ones
I think its M.C.Beaton that writes them
Kinda unrelated but does anyone know where to find
Inspector Dekok novels
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Lugardia-Steel-Damian-OConnor-ebook/dp/B01MG9FFOJ/ref=sr_1_12?keywords=damian+o%27connor&qid=1553722245&s=gateway&sr=8-12
Tana French is a wonderful Irish author
I am reading a book by Peter Robinson right now, it is about a British police officer, Alan Banks. It is the most recent one in the series. The title is Careless Love. Anne Cleeves also writes good British mysteries.
Me too. I’ll look back and list some I’ve loved.
William Monk series by Anne Perry is good.
@Joanna Most definitely!
Rhys Bowen Her royal Spyness series. Light 1930’s, with references to actual royal family history. She also has another series set in Wales that I haven’t read yet.
Am half-way thru one called A Killer Ball at Honeychurch Hall by Hannah Dennison. Have never read her before, just grabbed it at the library. She also has the Vickt Hill series the front page says. Will read her again.
Daisy Chain by Mark Montgomery
Any Agatha Christie novel
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows.
Sibel Hodge “Look Behind you” Good and suspenseful mystery.
Catherine Aird, Pat Burden, Patricia Wentworth. Also J.K. Rowling writing phenomenal detective fiction as Robert Galbraith. And of course Dorothy L. Sayers
Loved jkr/Robert Galbraith books.
Jacqueline Winspear’s Maisie Dobbs series, Charles Todd’s Inspector Ian Rutledge series, Alan Bradley’s Flavia de Luce series.
DC BANKS series are awesome
Well I thought so…
Sorry I forget authors ..
I love the Vera series.
I love Stephen Booths police series.
Tana French.