|
| Paul Adam |
| • |
Mike McLean: freelance journalist in England |
| Jane (A.) Adams |
| • |
Naomi Blake: blind ex-policewoman
in the Midlands of England |
| • |
Mike Croft: detective
inspector in Norfolk, England |
| • |
Ray Flowers: former police sergeant, private investigator, in England |
| • |
Rina Martin: retired actress, who played a private investigator in a television series, in Frantham, England |
| Susan Wittig Albert |
| • |
Beatrix
Potter: author and illustrator in the Lake District in 1900s
England |
| Peter Alding (Roderic Jeffries) |
| • |
Constable John
Kerr: and inspector Robert Fusil in the fictious seaside Fortrow,
England |
| Ted Allbeury |
| • |
Tad Anders: Polish-British
agent in England |
| Michael David Anthony |
| • |
Richard Harrison:
retired intelligence officer, now working for Canterbury Cathedral,
in England |
| David Armstrong |
| • |
Frank Kavanagh:
detective inspector, and later, detective constable Jane Salt, in
Birmingham, England |
| Margot Arnold |
| • |
Penny Spring:
60-something anthropologist, and Sir Toby Glendower,
a 60-something archaeologist, in Cambridge, England |
| Maureen Ash |
| • |
Bascot de Marins: Templar
Knight recovering from imprisonment in the holy lands, in the early
1200s, in England |
| Lindsay Ashford |
| • |
Dr. Megan Rhys:
forensic psychologist in Birmingham, England |
| Nancy Atherton |
| • |
Aunt Dimity: romantic
ghost in England |
| Kate Atkinson |
| • |
Jackson Brodie: ex-cop,
ex-husband, and private investigator, in the UK |
| Ray Banks |
| • |
Callum “Cal” Innes:
an ex-con working as an unlicensed private investigator, in Manchester,
England |
| Robert Barnard |
| • |
Charlie Peace: young black Scotland Yard detective first in London
and then in Leeds, England |
| Stephanie Barron (Francine Mathews) |
| • |
Jane Austen:
famous author in England |
| Simon Beaufort with Beau Riffenburgh (Susanna Gregory) |
| • |
Sir Geoffrey Mappestone:
knight during the time of the Crusades |
| M.C. Beaton |
| • |
Agatha Raisin:
a London advertising retiree living in the Cotswolds, England |
| Alan Beechey |
| • |
Oliver Swithin: children’s book author in Great Britain |
| Francis Beeding |
| • |
Alistair Granby:
Colonel, later General, in the British Intelligence
Service in England and occasionally on the Continent |
| • |
George Martin:
police inspector in England |
| • |
Wilkins:
police inspector in England |
| Pauline Bell |
| • |
Benny Mitchell: brash
detective constable in Cloughton, Yorkshire, England |
| George Bellairs |
| • |
Thomas Littlejohn:
police inspector, later Superintendent, mostly
in England |
| Ron and Janet Benrey |
| • |
Nigel Owen: director of the Royal Tunbridge Wells Tea Museum, and
curator Flick Adams, in England |
| John Bingham |
| • |
John “Badger” Brock:
police superintendent in Melford, England |
| • |
Kenneth Ducane (also
called Vandoran), chief of the Secret Intelligence Service, in England |
| Veronica Black |
| • |
Sister Joan: investigative
nun in Cornwall, England |
| John Blackburn |
| • |
Bill Easterand and
Peggy Tey, agents for hire, based in England |
| • |
Charles Kirk: a
general, head of British Foreign Office Intelligence, mostly in England |
| J.M.C. Blair |
| • |
Merlin: scholar, doctor,
and advisor to King Arthur of legendary medieval Britain, in the
Merlin Investigations |
| Victoria Blake |
| • |
Samantha (Sam) Falconer:
world judo champion turned private investigator at the Gentle Way
investigation agency in London, working in Oxford, England |
| Janie Bolitho |
| • |
Ian Roper: Detective
Chief Inspector, in Rickenham, England |
| • |
Rose Trevelyan:
painter and photographer in Cornwall, England |
| Kyril Bonfiglioli |
| • |
Charlie Mortdecai:
dishonest art dealer who consorts with international crooks, and
his sidekick Jock Strapp, in England |
| Stephen Booth |
| • |
Detective Constable Ben
Cooper: trying to fill his
police sergeant father’s shoes, and new partner, Diane Fry,
recently transferred to Edendale’s force, in the Peak District
in England |
| David Bowker |
| • |
Billy Dye: struggling
author, and Rawhead, an assassin and Dye’s
childhood friend, in Manchester, England |
| Alan Bradley |
| • |
Flavia de Luce: an
11-year old sleuth and aspiring chemist in 1950, in the small village
of Bishop’s Lacey, England |
| Gyles Brandreth |
| • |
Oscar Wilde: poet, wit, and playwright, friend of Arthur Conan Doyle, and Robert Sherard, great-grandson of Wordsworth, investigate murders in Victorian England, Scotland, and France |
| Simon Brett |
| • |
Blotto, the
Honourable Devereux Lyminster, and his sister Twinks, in 1920s England |
| • |
Melita Pargeter:
widow of a thief in England |
| • |
Charles Paris:
charming alcoholic actor in England |
| William Brodrick |
| • |
Father Anselm:
lawyer turned monk, in Larkwood Priory, England |
| Lizbie Brown |
| • |
Elizabeth Blair:
American widow quilt shop owner in Bath, England |
| Alison Bruce |
| • |
Gary Goodhew: detective
constable at Parkside Station, in Cambridge, England |
| Leo Bruce |
| • |
Sergeant Beef: a beer-and-darts
loving common man in England |
| • |
Carolus Deene: ex-commando
turned schoolmaster in England |
| John Buchan |
| • |
Richard Hannay: an ordinary fellow caught up in extraordinary events
in England and Scotland |
| Pat Burden |
| • |
Henry Bassett:
retired Detective Chief Superintendent in Herefordshire,
England |
| W.J. Burley |
| • |
Henry Pym: zoologist
cum amateur detective at Huntley-May Grammar School |
| • |
Charles Wycliffe: the
area CID superintendent in West Country, England |
| Miles Burton (John Rhode) |
| • |
Desmond Merrion:
military intelligence officer who becomes a private
detective, and Henry Arnold, a Scotland Yard inspector, in England |
| Dorothy Cannell |
| • |
Ellie Haskell,
an interior decorator, Ben Haskell, a writer and chef, and occasionally
Hyacinth and Primrose Tramwell, a pair of dotty sisters and owners
of the Flowers Detection Agency |
| Maureen Carter |
| • |
Bev Morriss: lippy
but loveable detective sergeant in Birmingham, England |
| Tania Carver (Martyn and Linda Waites) |
| • |
Philip Brennan:
detective inspector in the Major Incident Squad, and Marina Esposito,
a psychologist, in Colchester, England |
| Sarah Caudwell |
| • |
Hilary Tamar: medieval
law professor in Oxford, England |
| Mary Challis (Sara Woods) |
| • |
Jeremy Locke:
attorney in England |
| Paul Charles |
| • |
Christy Kennedy:
the Irish-born Detective Inspector of Camden CID in England |
| Marion Chesney (M.C. Beaton) |
| • |
Captain Harry Cartwright:
wounded, bitter survivor of the Boer War, now a “fixer,” and
Lady Rose Summer, in Edwardian England |
| G.K. Chesterton |
| • |
Father Brown: gentle,
quiet little cleric in England |
| Alys Clare |
| • |
Abbess Helewise and Sir
Josse d’Acquin:
French knight, at
the Hawkenly Abbey in England during the 12th century |
| • |
Lassair: a 14-year-old
girl with special gifts training to be a healer in a Fenland village,
in 11th century England |
| Cassandra Clark |
| • |
Hildegard: wealthy
recent widow who becomes an abbess in late 14th century York, England,
in the Abbess of Meaux mysteries |
| Ann Cleeves |
| • |
George Palmer-Jones:
retired civil servant and amateur bird watcher, and his wife Molly,
a retired social worker, in Surrey, England |
| • |
Stephen Ramsey: impulsive
police inspector in Northumberland, England |
| Rory Clements |
| • |
John Shakespeare:
investigator and older brother of Will, in Elizabethan (1580s-1590s)
England |
| V.C. Clinton-Baddeley |
| • |
Dr. R.V. Davie: of St. Nicholas College, Cambridge, England |
| Michael Clynes (Paul Doherty) |
| • |
Sir Roger Shallot:
agent of Cardinal Wolsey in England |
| Chris Collett |
| • |
Tom Mariner: detective
inspector in Birmingham, England |
| John Connor |
| • |
Karen Sharpe: detective
constable, later detective sergeant, in 1990s Yorkshire, England |
| Sara Conway |
| • |
Lord Godwin: bailiff
in Hexham in 13th century England |
| Judith Cook |
| • |
John Latymer: former
copper and literary tour guide for groups of American Tourists in
Great Britain |
| Lesley Cookman |
| • |
Libby Sarjeant: middle-aged actress and private investigator,
in Kent, England |
| Natasha Cooper |
| • |
Trish Maguire: barrister specializing in child-abuse cases in
England |
| John Creasey |
| • |
Department
Z and tales of British counterespionage |
| Edmonds Crispin |
| • |
Gervase Fen: professor
of English in Oxford, England |
| Clare Curzon |
| • |
Mike Yeadings, a
police superintendent, and Angus Mott, a police sergeant, in Thames
Valley, England |
| Judith Cutler |
| • |
Fran Harman: Detective Chief Superintendent nearing retirement, in Kent, England |
| • |
Kate Power: former
London Metropolitan Police detective now in Birmingham, England |
| • |
Sophie Rivers: a
college lecturer and amateur singer in Birmingham, England |
| • |
Lina Townend:
an orphan, and her mentor Griffith (Griff) Tripp, an antique dealer,
in England |
| • |
Josie Welford: new owner of the White Hart Pub in Kings Duncombe, a West Country village, and Nick Thomas, a Food Standards Agency inspector, in England |
| Jeanne M. Dams |
| • |
Dorothy Martin:
American schoolteacher retired in England |
| Anna Dean |
| • |
Miss Dido Kent: 35-year-old
amateur sleuth, starting in 1805 Regency England |
| Michael Delving |
| • |
Dave Cannon: Connecticut Yankee, in rural Gloucestershire, England, and in Wales |
| • |
Bob Eddison: Cherokee Indian, Dave Cannon’s partner, in rural Gloucestershire, England |
| Mary Devlin |
| • |
Geoffrey Chaucer: poet
and detective in the late 1300s, in England |
| Carter Dickson (John Dickson Carr) |
| • |
Colonel March: head of Scotland Yard’s fictitious
Department D-3, the Department of Queer Complaints |
| • |
Sir
Henry Merrivale: holder of one of the oldest
baronetcies in England, physician, barrister, and head of military
intelligence for the war office in England |
| David Dickinson |
| • |
Lord Francis Powerscourt: ex-Indian army intelligence officer
and Irish peer, working as an investigator in the late Victorian
period, in England and elsewhere |
| Paul (P.C.) Doherty |
| • |
Nicholas
Chirke: young lawyer in medieval England, in the
Canterbury Tales mysteries |
| • |
Hugh Corbett:
spy for King Edward I in England |
| • |
Matthew Jenkyn:
15th century soldier and double agent spy, in England |
| Ruth Downie |
| • |
Gaius Petreius Ruso: recently divorced Roman army physician,
in second century Roman Britain |
| Margaret Duffy |
| • |
Ingrid Langley:
a novelist and British Agent, and Patrick Gillard, a British army
major |
| • |
Joanna McKenzie:
former CID turned PI in Bath, England |
| Ann Dukthas (Paul Doherty) |
| • |
Nicholas Segalla:
time-traveling scholar in England |
| Carola Dunn |
| • |
Daisy Dalrymple: journalist
in Hampshire, England |
| • |
Eleanor Trewynn:
a plucky widow running a charity shop in the fictional village of
Port Mabyn, in 1960s Cornwall, England, in the Cornish Mysteries |
| Dorothy Dunnett |
| • |
Johnson Johnson: British agent and yachtsman on the “Dolly” |
| Marjorie Eccles |
| • |
Gil Mayo: police
detective in Midlands, England |
| Martin Edwards |
| • |
Harry Devlin: solicitor
in Liverpool, England |
| • |
Daniel Kind: retired
Oxford historian, and Detective Chief Inspector Hannah Scarlett of
the Cold Case Squad, in the Lake District of England |
| Ruth Dudley Edwards |
| • |
Robert Amiss: retired civil servant in England |
| Clive Egleton |
| • |
Peter Ashton: secret agent in the British SIS |
| • |
Dave Garnett: resistance fighter in Soviet-occupied Britain |
| Anthony Eglin |
| • |
Lawrence Kingston:
retired botany professor in England, in the English Garden mysteries |
| Lance Elliot (Keith McCarthy) |
| • |
Lance Elliot:
doctor in 1975 Thornton Heath, England |
| Kate Ellis |
| • |
Wesley Peterson: detective
sergeant, and Gerry Heffernan, his boss, in South Devon, England |
| • |
Joe Plantagenet:
detective inspector in Eborby, North Yorkshire, England |
| Kathy Lynn Emerson |
| • |
Susanna Appleton:
herbalist noblewoman in Elizabethan England |
| Margaret Erskine |
| • |
Septimus Finch:
large, bland detective inspector, later Chief Inspector, in England |
| Liz Evans |
| • |
Grace Smith: private
investigator in Seatoun, England |
| Martin Fallon (Jack Higgins) |
| • |
Paul Chavasse:
globe-trotting spy for Britain in the 1960s |
| Jasper Fforde |
| • |
Thursday Next:
agent of the Special Operations Network, Literary Division, in Great
Britain a funny sci-fi, alternate history series |
| • |
Detective Jack Spratt: investigator in the Nursery Crimes Division,
in Reading, England |
| Ian Fleming |
| • |
James Bond: master spy for Great Britain |
| Raymond Flynn |
| • |
Robert Graham: detective
inspector in Eddathorpe, England |
| Colin Forbes |
| • |
Tweed: British Secret Service second in command, and agents Paula
Grey and Bob Newman |
| Dick Francis |
| • |
Kit Fielding:
jockey in England |
| • |
Sid Halley:
injured steeplechase jockey turned private eye in England |
| Ariana Franklin |
| • |
Adelia:
(Vesuvia Adelia Rachel Ortese Aguilar of Salerno), a “doctor for the dead” working for King Henry II in 12th century England |
| Anthea Fraser |
| • |
Rona Parish: biographer
and amateur sleuth, in England |
| • |
David Webb: detective
chief inspector in Wiltshire, England |
| Margaret Frazer (Monica Ferris and Gail Frazer) |
| • |
Sister Frevisse:
nun in the 1400s in Oxfordshire, England |
| Reg Gadney |
| • |
Alan Rosslyn: private
investigator in England and elsewhere in Europe |
| John Gardner |
| • |
James Bond:
master spy for Great Britain (Ian Fleming series continued) |
| • |
Herbie Kruger:
senior staffer in British Intelligence |
| • |
Boysie Oakes:
squeamish government assassin in England |
| Jonathan Gash |
| • |
Clare Burtonall:
hospital physician in England |
| • |
Lovejoy:
antiques expert and forger in East Anglia, England |
| Barbara Reichmuth Geisler |
| • |
Dame Averilla:
the infirmaress at the Benedictine abbey near Shaftesbury in 12th
century Norman England |
| Jane R. Goodall |
| • |
Briony Williams:
rookie police officer, later a detective, in London, later Oxford,
England |
| Philip Gooden |
| • |
Thomas Ansell:
London attorney who travels to British cathedral towns during the
Victorian era |
| J.G. Goodhind |
| • |
Honey Driver: owner
of the Green River Hotel and amateur sleuth, in Bath, England |
| Dolores Gordon-Smith |
| • |
Jack Haldean:
former Royal Flying Corps pilot and mystery writer, in early 1920s
England |
| C.L. Grace (Paul Doherty) |
| • |
Kathryn Swinbrooke:
physician, apothecary, and death investigator in 15th century Canterbury,
England |
| Caroline Graham |
| • |
Tom Barnaby: chief
inspector in England |
| Ann Granger |
| • |
Jess Campbell: a police
inspector, and Ian Carter, the new superintendent, in the Cotswolds,
England, by Ann Granger |
| • |
Alan Markby: detective
inspector, and Meredith Mitchell, a Foreign Service officer, in the
Cotswolds, England |
| Lesley Grant-Adamson |
| • |
Jim Rush:
American on the run from British police in England |
| Malcolm Gray (Ian Stuart) |
| • |
Alan Craig: ex-Scotland
Yard detective, now a private enquiry agent, in England |
| Christine Green |
| • |
Kate Kinsella:
nurse and medical examiner in England |
| • |
Connor O’Neill:
chief inspector, and Fran Wilson, detective sergeant, in Fowchester,
England |
| • |
Thomas Rydell:
Village Chief Inspector, and Sergeant Denise “Denni” Caldecote,
in Marston, England |
| John Greenwood (John Buxton Hilton) |
| • |
Inspector
Mosley:
Lancashire and Yorkshire border country in England |
| Susanna Gregory |
| • |
Matthew Bartholomew:
brother and forensic sleuth in the 14th century Cambridge, England |
| Elly Griffiths |
| • |
Dr. Ruth Galloway:
forensic archaeologist, and Harry Nelson, a detective chief inspector,
in the Saltmarsh area near Norfolk, England |
| Lucretia Walsh Grindle |
| • |
H.W. Ross: detective
superintendent in England |
| Peter Guttridge |
| • |
Robert Watts:
disgraced chief constable in mid-1930s Brighton, England, in the
Brighton trilogy |
| M.R. Hall |
| • |
Jenny Cooper: small-town
lawyer appointed Severn Vale District Coroner, in Gloucestershire,
England |
| Patricia Hall |
| • |
Laura Ackroyd:
reporter, and Michael Thackeray, a police inspector,
in Yorkshire, England, in the Yorkshire mysteries |
| Sophie Hannah |
| • |
Simon Waterhouse:
detective constable, and Charlie Zailer, a detective sergeant, in
rural England |
| Mollie Hardwick |
| • |
Doran Fairweather: antiques seller, married to vicar Rodney
Chelmarsh, in Kent, England |
| Roy Hart |
| • |
Douglas Roper: detective
superintendent in Dorset, England |
| John Harvey |
| • |
Frank Elder: an ex-cop
from Nottingham, now retired and relocated to Cornwall, England |
| • |
Will Grayson:
detective inspector, and Helen Walker, detective sergeant, in Cambridge,
England |
| • |
Scott Mitchell:
private investigator in England |
| • |
Charlie Resnick: jazz-loving
police detective in Nottingham, England |
| Patricia Harwin |
| • |
Catherine Penny:
60-something divorced librarian, who leaves New York City to join
her daughter in Far Wychwood, England |
| James Hawkins |
| • |
David Bliss: Detective
Inspector in the C.I.D. in Hampshire, England |
| S.T. Haymon |
| • |
Ben Jurnet: detective
inspector, raised a Unitarian, perhaps of Jewish descent, in Norfolk,
England |
| Tony Hays |
| • |
Malgwyn ap Cuneglas:
one-armed soldier and counselor to Arthur, in 5th century Britain |
| Peter Helton |
| • |
Chris Honeysett: artist
and private investigator, in and around Bath, England |
| • |
Liam McLusky: detective
inspector transferred from Southampton to Bristol, England |
| Mick Herron |
| • |
Zoë Boehm: 40-something
private investigator in Oxford, England |
| Georgette Heyer |
| • |
Superintendent Hannasyde:
police superintendent, and Inspector Hemingway, Hannasyde’s
subordinate in England |
| Patricia Highsmith |
| • |
Tom Ripley:
charming forger and psychopath in England |
| Kaye C. Hill |
| • |
Lexy Lomax: an accidental
private detective, and Kinky, her Chihuahua attack dog, in Clopwolde-on-Sea,
on the Suffolk Coast of England |
| Suzette A. Hill |
| • |
Rev. Francis Oughterard:
the vicar of Molehill and a flustered murderer and blackmail victim,
along with Bouncer the dog and Maurice the cat, in 1950s Surrey,
England |
| John Buxton Hilton |
| • |
Thomas Brunt:
CID inspector in the hill country of Northern England |
| Teri Holbrook |
| • |
Gale Grayson: American
expatriate historian in England |
| Hazel Holt |
| • |
Sheila Malory: writer of literary criticism in Taviscombe, England |
| Lesley Horton |
| • |
John Handford: Detective
Inspector, and Detective Sergeant Khalid Ali, in Bradford, Yorkshire,
England |
| Lis Howell |
| • |
Suzy Spencer: a working
mother and part-time television producer, in the village of Tarnfield
in the north of England, in the Norbridge Chronicles |
| Alan Hunter |
| • |
George Gently: police
inspector, later Chief Superintendent, based in East Anglia, England |
| Graham Hurley |
| • |
Joe Faraday: detective inspector in Portsmouth, England, recently promoted to the elite Major Crimes Team |
| Bill James |
| • |
Simon Abelard: mixed
race intelligence officer in Great Britain |
| • |
Colin Harpur, detective
chief superintendent, and Desmond Iles assistant chief constable
in an English seaport |
| • |
Kerry Lake:
detective in England |
| Dean James |
| • |
Simon Kirby-Jones: gay American writer who became a vampire in
Houston, now living in Snupperton Mumsley, a small village in England |
| Peter James |
| • |
Roy Grace: Detective Superintendent of the CID, in Sussex, England |
| Michael Jecks |
| • |
Simon Puttock:
medieval West County bailiff, and Sir Baldwin Furnshill,
ex-Templar Knight, in Devon, England |
| Selwyn Jepson |
| • |
Eve Gill: young sleuth frequently dealing with problems caused
by her liquor-smuggling father, in England |
| Jennifer Jordan |
| • |
Barry Vaughan:
history lecturer and spoofy crime writer, and Dee
Vaughan, an office temp wife, in Woodfield, England |
| Morag Joss |
| • |
Sara Selkirk: renowned
cellist in Bath, England |
| Brian Kavanagh |
| • |
Belinda Lawrence: young Australian who inherited a cottage near
Bath, England |
| H.R.F. Keating (written as Evelyn Hervey) |
| • |
Martens, Harriet:
detective superintendent in Greater Birchester, England |
| Jim Kelly |
| • |
Philip Dryden: newspaper reporter in Cambridgeshire, England |
| • |
Peter Shaw, detective
inspector, and George Valentine, detective sergeant, in Norfolk,
England |
| Susan B. Kelly |
| • |
Alison Hope: software
designer, and Nick Trevellyan, a detective inspector, in Hop Valley,
England |
| • |
Gregory Summers:
police superintendent in the Thames Valley, England |
| Rebecca Kent (Kate Kingsbury) |
| • |
Meredith Llewellyn:
headmistress of Bellehaven House, a finishing school in the Cotswolds,
and her two cohorts, no-nonsense Felicity Cross and timid ex-socialite
Esmerelda Pickard, in Edwardian England |
| Sarah Kemp (Michael Butterworth) |
| • |
Dr. Tina
May: television celebrity pathologist and amateur sleuth, in
England |
| Diana Killian |
| • |
Grace Hollister:
American schoolteacher and literary scholar visiting
her favorite poets’ old haunts in England’s Lake District,
in the Poetic Death mysteries |
| Bernard Knight |
| • |
Sir John de Wolfe:
the crowner (coroner), in 12th century Devon,
England, in the Crowner John series |
| • |
Richard Pryor:
a pathologist, and Angela Bray, a biologist, running a private forensic
practice in 1950s Britain, in the Forensic Mystery series |
| Ronald A. Knox |
| • |
Miles Bredon: insurance
investigator for the Indescribable Insurance Company, in England |
| Sarah Lacey (Kay Mitchell) |
| • |
Leah Hunter: 25-year-old
tax inspector, in England |
| Hilary Landon (George Bellairs) |
| • |
Timothy Dewer:
police inspector in England |
| Janet Laurence |
| • |
Darina Lisle: caterer-chef
and food writer in West Country, England |
| Frank Lean |
| • |
David Cunane: private
investigator, and son of a cop, in Manchester, England |
| Michael Z. Lewin |
| • |
The Lunghi family:
three-generation private eye family in Bath, England |
| Robert Lewis |
| • |
Robin Llewellyn: Welsh
private investigator with a fondness for drink, in Bristol, England,
and Swansea, Wales |
| Roy H. Lewis |
| • |
Matthew Coll: antiquarian
bookseller and former British military intelligence agent, in Dorset,
England |
| Roy Lewis (b.1933) |
| • |
John Crow: police inspector
in England |
| • |
Arnold Landon: medieval
architecture expert and researcher in Northumberland, England |
| • |
Eric Ward: policeman
turned solicitor in England |
| Gillian Linscott |
| • |
Nell Bray:
British suffragette |
| Phillip MacDonald |
| • |
Anthony Ruthven Gethryn:
sleuth and sometime intelligence officer,
son of an English squire and a Spanish actress |
| Donald MacKenzie |
| • |
John Raven: tough
Scotland Yard detective inspector, later an unlicensed private investigator
living on a houseboat, mostly in England |
| G.M. Malliet |
| • |
Max Tudor: former MI-5
agent, now vicar at St. Edwold’s in the idyllic village of
Nether Monkslip, England |
| Ngaio Marsh |
| • |
Roderick Alleyn:
second son of a baronet and police inspector in London, England and
elsewhere |
| Edward Marston |
| • |
Ralph Delchard,
a soldier, and Gervase Bret, a lawyer, in 11th century England, in
the Domesday Series |
| Andrew Martin |
| • |
Jim Stringer: railroad worker and amateur sleuth in the early 1900s, in England |
| Faith Martin |
| • |
Hillary Greene: detective
inspector with the Thames Valley Police, in Oxfordshire, England |
| Priscilla Masters |
| • |
Joanna Piercy:
detective inspector in Staffordshire, England |
| • |
Martha Gunn:
coroner in Shrewsbury, England |
| Lew Matthews |
| • |
Horatio T. Parker:
crime reporter for the weekly Explorer, in Hampstead, England |
| Keith McCarthy |
| • |
Dr. John Eisenmenger:
former forensic pathologist in charge of St. Benjamin’s Museum
of Anatomy and Pathology, and Helena Flemming, a solicitor, in England |
| Nigel McCrery |
| • |
Mark Lapslie: detective
chief inspector, and his sergeant, Emma Bradbury, in Essex, England |
| V.L. McDermid (Val McDermid) |
| • |
Kate Brannigan: private
eye in Manchester, England |
| Iain McDowall |
| • |
Frank Jacobsen: detective
chief inspector, and detective sergeant Ian Kerr, in Crowby, in the
Midlands of England |
| Andy McNab |
| • |
Nick Stone: SAS (special forces) agent, for England |
| James Melville |
| • |
Ben Lazenby: British
Council official in England |
| Jennie Melville (Gwendoline Butler) |
| • |
Charmian Daniels:
police detective in Deerham Hills, England |
| Kay Mitchell |
| • |
John Morrissey: chief
inspector and family man in Malminster, England |
| Aly Monroe |
| • |
Peter Cotton: British
economic warfare agent in the mid to late 1940s |
| Margaret Moore |
| • |
Richard Baxter:
chief inspector in Cambridge, England |
| Philippa Morgan (Philip Gooden) |
| • |
Geoffrey Chaucer:
acting as an agent for Edward III in the late 1300s in England and
on the continent |
| Ian Morson |
| • |
William Falconer: 13th
century university regent master in Oxford, England |
| Fiona Mountain |
| • |
Natasha Blake: genealogist in the Cotswolds, in England |
| Amy Myers |
| • |
Jack Colby: car
detective, in England |
| • |
Peter Marsh: wheelchair-bound ex-policeman, and his daughter
Georgia, who investigate unsolved murders in Kent, England |
| Charles O’Brien |
| • |
Anne Cartier:
ex-vaudeville actress, then a tutor for deaf children, in England
and France on the eve of the French Revolution |
| Ed O’Connor |
| • |
John Underwood: a detective
inspector, and Alison Dexter, a detective sergeant, in New Bolden,
Cambridgeshire, England |
| Nick Oldham |
| • |
Henry Christie: a hard-drinking
detective inspector, later DCI, in Blackpool, England |
| Anthony Oliver |
| • |
Mrs. Lizzie Thomas:
a Welsh widow, and her friend, John Webber, a retired, arthritic
police inspector, in Flaxfield, Suffolk, England |
| Roger Ormerod |
| • |
Philipa Lowe:
amateur sleuth, and Oliver Simpson, a Detective Inspector, in England |
| • |
David Mallin
and sometimes George Coe, private detectives in England |
| • |
Richard Patton:
retired Detective Inspector in England |
| Charlie Owen |
| • |
D Group: ensemble
cast of police in a fictional 1970s town north of Manchester, England |
| Emma Page |
| • |
Kelsey: detective inspector,
later chief inspector, and detective Lambert, in a village somewhere
in England |
| Robin Paige (Susan Wittig Albert) |
| • |
Kathryn
Ardleigh: American author who moves to
Victorian Dedham, England, and Sir Charles Sheridan, a landed peer
and amateur scientist |
| Frank Parish (Roger Erskine Longrigg) |
| • |
Don Mallett:
thief and poacher in Medwell Fratorum, England |
| S.J. Parris |
| • |
Giordano Bruno: monk,
philosopher, and astronomer on the run from the Roman Inquisition,
serving as an agent for Queen Elizabeth I, in late 16th century England |
| Jill Paton Walsh |
| • |
Imogen Quy: nurse in St. Agatha’s College, in Cambridge,
England |
| Stuart Pawson |
| • |
Charlie Priest: art
school graduate turned police detective in Yorkshire, England |
| Sharon Kay Penman |
| • |
Justin de Quincy:
bastard son of a bishop in 12th century England |
| John Penn (Palma Harcourt & Jack H. Trotman) |
| • |
Dick Tansey:
Chief Inspector in the Thames Valley police, in England |
| • |
George Thorne:
Detective Superintendent in the Thames Valley police, in England |
| Elizabeth Peters |
| • |
Amelia Peabody:
Victorian feminist Egyptologist from Kent, England |
| John Pilkington |
| • |
Thomas Finbow:
master falconer in late 16th century London and Berkshire, England |
| Christine Poulson |
| • |
Cassandra James: professor and administrator at St. Etheldreda’s
College, in Cambridge, England, in the Cambridge mysteries |
| Maurice Procter |
| • |
Philip Hunter:
detective superintendent, in fictional Yoreborough (York), England |
| • |
Harry Martineau:
detective inspector, later Detective Chief Inspector, in fictional Granchester, “Metropolis of the North,” England |
| Ann Purser |
| • |
Ivy Beasley:
a cantankerous spinster, and Gus, a newcomer to the village of Barrington,
England |
| • |
Lois Meade: cleans houses for pin money in the quaint village
of Long Farnden, England |
| Philip Purser |
| • |
Colin Panton: working
in television in England |
| Sheila Quigley |
| • |
Lorraine Hunt: detective
inspector in Houghton-le-Spring, northeast England |
| Ann Quinton |
| • |
Nick Holroyd: detective
inspector in Dorset, England |
| • |
James Roland,
a detective inspector, and Patrick Mansfield, a detective sergeant
in Suffolk, England |
| Sheila Radley |
| • |
Douglas Quantrill,
a detective chief inspector, and Hilary Lloyd, a police sergeant,
in East Anglia, England |
| Dilwyn Rees (Glyn Daniel) |
| • |
Sir Richard Cherrington: archaeologist and Vice President of
Fisher College, in Cambridge, England |
| Nicholas Rhea (Peter Walker) |
| • |
Constable Nick:
policeman in Aidensfield, North Yorkshire, England |
| • |
Mark Pemberton:
Detective Superintendent in North Yorkshire, England |
| • |
Montague Pluke:
Detective Inspector in North Yorkshire, England |
| Phil Rickman |
| • |
Merrily Watkins:
Anglican priest and single mom, near the Welsh border, in northeast
Herefordshire, England |
| Robert Richardson |
| • |
Augustus Maltravers:
journalist turned playwright and novelist, in fictional Vercaster,
England |
| Michael Ridpath |
| • |
Non-series security trading and technological suspense set in England |
| Barrie Roberts |
| • |
Chris Tyroll: off-beat anarchist lawyer who will defend anyone, in the West Midlands of England |
| Imogen Robertson |
| • |
Harriet Westerman,
mistress of Caveley Park manor, and anatomist Gabriel Crowther, in
the 1780s, in West Sussex, England |
| Peter Robinson |
| • |
Alan Banks: Eastvale
detective chief inspector, in Yorkshire, England |
| Rosemary Rowe |
| • |
Libertus: mosaicist
and an expert in puzzles and patterns, living in the ancient Roman
town of Glevum (now Gloucester), England |
| Betty Rowlands |
| • |
Melissa Craig: British
crime novelist in the Cotswolds, England |
| • |
Sukey Reynolds: police
photographer and crime scene investigator, in England |
| Pauline Rowson |
| • |
Andy Horton: detective
inspector, and his sidekick sergeant Barney Cantelli, in Portsmouth,
England, in the Marine mysteries |
| Priscilla Royal |
| • |
Eleanor: Prioress
of Tyndal in 11th century East Anglia, England |
| Fay Sampson |
| • |
Suzie Fewings: genealogist
discovering interesting secrets in her family history, in England |
| Dorothy L. Sayers |
| • |
Montague Egg: unassuming wine salesman, in England |
| Catherine Shaw |
| • |
Vanessa Duncan: schoolteacher in late 19th-century Cambridge,
England |
| Chris Simms |
| • |
Jon Spicer: detective
inspector in Manchester, England |
| Dorothy Simpson |
| • |
Luke Thanet: police
inspector in Sturrenden, England |
| Frank (A.) Smith |
| • |
Neil Paget: crotchety
DCI in Shropshire, England |
| Shelley Smith |
| • |
Jacob Chaos: police
inspector in England |
| Roz Southey |
| • |
Charles Patterson:
determined but impoverished musician in 18th century Newcastle-upon-Tyne,
England |
| Sally Spencer (Alan Rustage) |
| • |
Charlie Woodend:
detective chief inspector in a village in England |
| • |
Monika Paniatowski:
detective chief inspector, Charlie Woodend’s protégé and
successor, in a village in England |
| Michelle Spring |
| • |
Laura Principal: academic turned private investigator in Cambridge,
England |
| Susannah Stacey |
| • |
Robert
Bone:
widowed British police inspector |
| Cath Staincliffe |
| • |
Sal Kilkenn: single-mother
private eye in Manchester, England |
| • |
Janine Lewis:
single mother pregnant with her 4th child and the
first woman Detective Chief Inspector in Greater Manchester, England |
| Veronica Stallwood |
| • |
Kate Ivory:
novelist turned amateur detective in Oxford, England |
| Kelli Stanley |
| • |
Arcturus: the Roman
governor’s doctor and investigator, in 83 AD Londinium, Britain |
| Mel Starr |
| • |
Hugh de Singleton: surgeon
in Bampton, near Oxford, during the reign of Edward III, in 14th
century England |
| Neville Steed |
| • |
Johnny Black: private
detective in 1930s England |
| • |
Peter Marklin: toyshop
owner and antique toy collector in Dorset, England |
| Rosemary Stevens |
| • |
Beau Brummell:
the arbiter of fashion in the Regency era of Great Britain |
| Andrew Taylor |
| • |
William
Dougal: post-grad student and security firm employee in England |
| • |
Lydmouth
series: featuring an ensemble cast, including Richard Thornhill,
a detective inspector, and Jill Francis, a journalist, in Lydmouth,
England, in the 1950s |
| Donald Thomas |
| • |
Alfred Swain: detective
inspector at Scotland Yard in late 19th century England |
| • |
Sonny Tarrant: gangster in 1930s-1940s London, England |
| Scarlett Thomas |
| • |
Lily Pascale: ex-teacher, ex-bartender, and ex-actress, now a professor
of creative writing in Devon, England |
| June Thomson |
| • |
Jack Rudd: detective
inspector in Essex, England |
| Simon Tolkien |
| • |
William Trave: detective
inspector, and Adam Clayton, a detective constable, in late 1950s-1960s
Oxford, England |
| Kerry Tombs |
| • |
Samuel Ravenscroft:
detective inspector with the Whitechapel Constabulary, in the late
1880s in Worcestershire, England |
| Peter Tonkin |
| • |
Tom Musgrave,
the Master of Defense, a sleuth in 1590s Elizabethan England |
| Rebecca Tope |
| • |
Den Cooper: determined
policeman in Devon, England |
| • |
Thea Osborne: house-sitter
in the Cotswolds, in England |
| • |
Drew Slocombe: former
nurse who has become an undertaker in Bradbourne, England |
| Leonard Tourney |
| • |
Matthew Stock:
17th century town constable and clothier in Chelmsford, England |
| M.J. Trow |
| • |
Peter Maxwell:
widowed teacher and golden-hearted cynic in England |
| Peter Turnbull |
| • |
George Hennessey:
chief inspector, and Detective Sergeant Yellich,
with the Vale of York police, in England |
| L.C. Tyler |
| • |
Ethelred Tressider: a
mystery author, and his chocoholic literary agent, Elsie Thirkettle,
in West Sussex, England |
| Nicola Upson |
| • |
Josephine Tey: the
mystery writer in 1930s Britain |
| Martyn Waites |
| • |
Joe Donovan: former
investigative journalist whose son has disappeared, in Newcastle,
England |
| • |
Stephen Larkin:
London tabloid journalist whose wife and baby were
murdered, now back in his hometown of Newcastle, England |
| Peter Walker |
| • |
Carnaby: police detective
with the CID in North Yorkshire, England |
| • |
Jock Patterson: constable
in England |
| Jo Walton |
| • |
Peter Carmichael: Scotland
Yard inspector, in an alternative history starting in 1949 Britain,
where WWII ended with a truce in 1941 |
| Colin Watson |
| • |
Walter Purbrigh:
police inspector in England, in the Flaxborough Chronicles |
| Shirley Wells |
| • |
Jill Kennedy: forensic
psychologist, and Max Trentham, a detective chief inspector and her
ex-lover, in the village of Kelton Bridge, Lancashire, England |
| Barbara Whitehead |
| • |
Robert Southwell:
detective chief inspector in York, England, in the York
Cycle mysteries |
| Stella Whitelaw |
| • |
Jordan Lacey:
ex-cop, start-up private investigator, in Latching, England |
| Charlie Williams |
| • |
Royston Blake:
head doorman at Hopper’s Wine Bar & Bistro, in the town
of Mangel, in the West Country of England |
| Derek Wilson |
| • |
Nathanial Gye: paranormal
investigator based in Cambridge, England |
| • |
George Keene: spy
in William Pitt’s intelligence service during
England's war with France in the 1790s |
| R.D. Wingfield |
| • |
Jack Frost: detective
inspector in Denton, England |
| Pauline Glen Winslow |
| • |
Merle Capricorn:
former vaudeville magician turned police superintendent in England |
| Keith Wright |
| • |
David Stark: police
inspector in England |
| Patricia Wynn |
| • |
Gideon St. Mars:
viscount who becomes the highwayman Blue Satan,
and his friend Mrs. Kean, in early 18th century England |
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