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Lewis (TV series)
Lewis (Inspector Lewis) is an ITV British crime drama, 2006–2015, a spin-off sequel to Inspector Morse: DI Robert Lewis (Kevin Whately) and DS James Hathaway (Laurence Fox) solve Oxford murders across 9 seasons and 33 episodes.
Marcella (TV series)
Marcella is a British noir crime drama created by Hans Rosenfeldt and Nicola Larder, starring Anna Friel as London detective Marcella Backland. It premiered on ITV in April 2016, streams on Netflix, and ran three series, moving to an undercover Belfast plot.
McDonald & Dodds
McDonald & Dodds is an ITV Bath-set detective drama (2020–2024) created by Robert Murphy, starring Tala Gouveia as DCI McDonald and Jason Watkins as DS Dodds, produced by Mammoth Screen in four series.
Messiah (British TV series)
Messiah is a British BBC One crime drama (2001 to 2008) of five serials following detectives investigating staged serial murders, starring Ken Stott and Marc Warren.
Midsomer Murders
Midsomer Murders, also known as Inspector Barnaby in several markets, is ITV's long-running detective drama based on Caroline Graham's Chief Inspector Barnaby novels, airing since 1997, set in a murder-prone fictional English county, and exported to over 200 territories.
Mrs Sidhu Investigates
Mrs Sidhu Investigates: British crime comedy drama (Acorn TV, 2023), 4 episodes, created by Suk Pannu, starring Meera Syal as a Slough caterer-sleuth with DCI Burton; adapted from the BBC Radio 4 series; 92% Tomatometer; ended after one season.
Murder Before Evensong
Murder Before Evensong is a 2025 six-part British cozy crime drama from Richard Coles's Canon Clement novel, starring Matthew Lewis as Canon Daniel Clement, premiered on Acorn TV and Channel 5, also staged at the Watermill Theatre.
Murder in Provence
Murder in Provence is a 2022 BritBox crime drama, its first pan-territory original, adapted from M.L. Longworth's Verlaque & Bonnet novels; three 88-minute episodes starring Roger Allam and Nancy Carroll, set in Aix-en-Provence, ended after one season.
Murder Most Puzzling
Murder Most Puzzling, aka The Puzzle Lady, is a 2025 three-part Channel 5 cosy crime series adapted from Parnell Hall's Puzzle Lady Mysteries, starring Phyllis Logan as crossword sleuth Cora Felton in fictional Bakerbury.
Partners in Crime (British TV series)
Partners in Crime is a 2015 six-part BBC One drama adapting Agatha Christie's The Secret Adversary and N or M?, starring David Walliams and Jessica Raine as Tommy and Tuppence Beresford in 1950s Cold War Britain.
Patience (TV series)
Patience is a British Channel 4 crime drama (2025), adapted by Matt Baker from Astrid et Raphaëlle, starring autistic actress Ella Maisy Purvis as York police archivist Patience Evans opposite Laura Fraser's DI Bea Metcalf; renewed for an eight-episode second series with Jessica Hynes.
Professor T. (British TV series)
Professor T. is a British crime drama starring Ben Miller as Cambridge criminologist Jasper Tempest, an eccentric professor with OCD who advises police, premiering in 2021.
Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased)
Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased), aka My Partner the Ghost, is a 1969-70 ITC British detective series in which murdered private eye Marty Hopkirk returns as a ghost visible only to partner Jeff Randall; 26 episodes, remade by the BBC in 2000 with Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer.
Rosemary & Thyme
Rosemary & Thyme is a British ITV cozy mystery series (2003–2007, 22 episodes, 3 series) starring Felicity Kendal as plant biologist Rosemary Boxer and Pam Ferris as ex-police officer Laura Thyme, gardening partners who solve murders.
Shakespeare & Hathaway: Private Investigators
Shakespeare & Hathaway: Private Investigators is a British cosy mystery comedy-drama set in Stratford-upon-Avon, created by Paul Matthew Thompson and Jude Tindall, starring Mark Benton and Jo Joyner, first broadcast on BBC One in 2018, with six series and sales to over 200 countries.
Sherlock (TV series)
Sherlock, also known as BBC Sherlock, is a British crime drama series created by Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss for the BBC, reimagining Sherlock Holmes in present-day London.
Shetland (TV series)
Shetland is a British crime drama series, first broadcast on BBC One in 2013, following Detective Inspector Jimmy Perez and his team investigating crimes on the Shetland Islands.
Silent Witness
Silent Witness is a long-running BBC crime drama created by Nigel McCrery, first broadcast 21 February 1996, following forensic pathologists; 29 seasons and 268 episodes, led in recent series by Emilia Fox as Dr Nikki Alexander.
Taggart
Taggart is a Scottish television detective drama created by Glenn Chandler for STV and ITV, set in Glasgow's Maryhill CID. It ran 1983 to 2010 across 27 series and 110 episodes, survived Mark McManus's 1994 death, and sold to over 140 territories.
The Coroner
The Coroner is a British crime drama created by Sally Abbott for BBC One. It aired from 2015 to 2017, following Jane Kennedy in the fictional South Devon town of Lighthaven.
The Fall (TV series)
The Fall is a BBC Two crime drama (2013–2016), created by Allan Cubitt, starring Gillian Anderson as DSI Stella Gibson hunting Jamie Dornan's serial killer Paul Spector in Belfast; 3 seasons, 17 episodes, Artists Studio production.
The Five (TV series)
The Five is a 2016 ten-episode British Sky1 crime drama created by Harlan Coben as his first original TV story, written by Danny Brocklehurst, starring Tom Cullen, O.T. Fagbenle, Lee Ingleby, and Sarah Solemani; DNA of a boy missing 20 years reappears at a murder scene.
The Gone
The Gone is a New Zealand–Irish crime drama series about an Irish couple who vanish in a small North Island town, airing on TVNZ and RTÉ from 2023.
The Hairdresser Mysteries
The Hairdresser Mysteries is a 2026 British cosy crime drama on BBC One and iPlayer, created by Jim Cartwright and starring Sally Phillips as 1970s-obsessed hairdresser Lily Petal, who solves murders in the fictional village of Blossom Vale through salon gossip.
The Inspector Lynley Mysteries
The Inspector Lynley Mysteries is the BBC One crime drama (2001–2008, 24 episodes) adapting Elizabeth George's novels, starring Nathaniel Parker as DI Thomas Lynley and Sharon Small as DS Barbara Havers, later reimagined as Lynley.
The Loch (TV series)
The Loch (Loch Ness in the US) is a 2017 six-part ITV crime drama written by Stephen Brady, starring Laura Fraser, Siobhan Finneran, and Don Gilet, set near Loch Ness; it topped the UK Netflix chart in 2025.
The Madame Blanc Mysteries
The Madame Blanc Mysteries is a British cosy crime drama created by Sally Lindsay and Sue Vincent, starring Lindsay as antiques dealer Jean White in fictional Sainte Victoire, France, filmed on Gozo and Malta, airing on Channel 5 and Acorn TV since 2021.
The Suspicions of Mr Whicher
The Suspicions of Mr Whicher is Kate Summerscale's 2008 Samuel Johnson Prize-winning true-crime book on the 1860 Road Hill House murder of Saville Kent, Inspector Jonathan Whicher's failed investigation, and the case's influence on detective fiction; adapted for ITV (2011–2014) and stage (2023).
The Tunnel (TV series)
The Tunnel is a British-French bilingual crime drama (2013-2017, Sky Atlantic/Canal+), adapted from Bron/Broen (The Bridge), starring Stephen Dillane and Clémence Poésy as detectives on the Channel Tunnel border, three series.
Unforgotten
Unforgotten: British ITV cold-case crime drama (2015– ) created by Chris Lang; Sanjeev Bhaskar's DI Sunny Khan with DCI Cassie Stuart (Nicola Walker), later DCI Jess James (Sinéad Keenan), solving one decades-old murder per six-episode series.