Where to Start
Six mystery series, 20 books, one question: which one is yours?
Every series stands alone. Pick the one that sounds like your kind of mystery — each Book 1 is a complete story with a proper ending. No cliffhangers, no required reading.
The Woodstock Mysteries
Cosy crime with a sharp edge
Two formidable women — Hester Croft, a sharp-minded former MI5 operative who controls the darkness inside herself, and Gertie Bundle, a bawdy, warm-hearted pub landlady with an instinct for reading pe…
The Fane & Blackwood Mysteries
Traditional country house mystery with literary depth
A celebrated detective, crippled at Ypres in 1915, has become a recluse in a decaying North Oxford villa. The world believes he is dead. A nineteen-year-old woman from a prominent Oxford academic fami…
The Brock & Poole Mysteries
Modern police procedural with heart
An unlikely partnership between a giant, gruff detective chief inspector with a philosophical streak and his anxious, young sergeant who's running from his past. Together they solve murders across the…
The Bingham & Gladstone Mysteries
Wodehouse-style comedic mystery
Lord Hugo Bingham, an amiable but dim aristocrat in the Bertie Wooster mold, constantly stumbles into murder investigations with his brilliant valet Wilberforce Gladstone. While Hugo provides comic re…
The Hammond & Circle Mysteries
Jazz Age mystery with female duo
Flo Hammond, a society columnist for the Daily Herald who dreams of being a crime reporter, and Jessie Circle, a bold American adventurer with a mysterious past, investigate murders in 1920s England. …
The Mary Blake Mysteries
Cosy crime with showbiz sparkle
Mary Blake spent twenty years playing TV detective Susan Law on the hit show 'Her Law.' When the show replaces her with a younger actress, Mary stumbles into a real murder investigation and discovers …
Quick Match
Like Richard Osman?
Start with The Woodstock Mysteries — sharp older detectives, small-town charm, genuine darkness under the surface.
Like Agatha Christie?
Start with Fane & Blackwood — golden-age country house mysteries with a brilliant odd-couple duo.
Like P.G. Wodehouse?
Start with Bingham & Gladstone — Jeeves-and-Wooster-style comedy, but with actual murders.
Like modern police dramas?
Start with Brock & Poole — a giant gruff DI and his anxious young sergeant, five books of partnership and procedure.
Want something completely different?
Start with The Incredible Fontaine — a mediocre magician who stumbles into murders, with a magic trick at the heart of every case.
Prefer your mysteries with showbiz?
Start with Mary Blake — a TV detective actress who discovers she's good at the real thing.
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