Book series

Sahdhamn Murders -Stockholm Viveca Sten
Or for a little light relief, the Cadillac Series -Texas, by Carolyn Brown

Rebecca Tope has a series set in the Cotswolds and another set in the Lake District.

Thanks TerriBull I will take your advice 👍

My son lives near Brighton Chardy so I too like books set there as I know the area quite well. Have you tried the great Elly Griffiths books set in Brighton in the 1950s/1960s can highly recommend. Need to read them in order.

NanKate

I’ve just been recommended to Peter James books being set in Brighton. Any fans here ? Don’t know where to start with his books.

I live near Brighton, so was quite excited as I love my crime books. Maybe I got a particularly violent one, but not for me.

I would always say, start with the first one where the author spends time on the personality of the main characters.

Hi NanKate, I mentioned the Roy Grace books up thread, but forgot to say they were written by Peter James. A couple have been dramatised on tv with John Simm. There is an unfolding personal story relating to Roy Grace which is revealed little by little in successive books, so to get the best out of the development of the characters, read them in order. It's hard to remember which is which because they all have "Dead" in the title, but if you Google them they'll be in published order somewhere.

Peter May, the Lewis Trilogy (amongst others). Set in Scotland.

I’ve just been recommended to Peter James books being set in Brighton. Any fans here ? Don’t know where to start with his books.

Iris Gower Swansea

Donna Leon - Guido Brunetti

Louise Penny - Inspector Gamache

Don’t forget Thomas Hardy’s books all set in the West Country, mostly Dorset.

Peter Diamond detective series by Peter Lovesy set in Bath
Ann Cleeves also has a new detective series set in North Devon

Val Wood - lots of books set in East Yorkshire. (Catherine Cookson style historical stories.)

Marcia Willett Devon

Quintin Jardine's Skinner series - Edinburgh.

Cynthia Harrod-Eagles' Dynasty series - Yorkshire (35 books covering the time from the Wars of the Roses to the 1930s, but well worth the effort.)

Susie Steiner, has written some good crime featuring DI Manon Bradshaw, only 3 in the series but I think they're all good, set in and around Cambridgeshire.

Imogen Quy series by Jill Paton Walsh. Imogen is a nurse in a Cambridge College.
My favourite is A Piece of Justice, like the best detective mysteries, you learn something along the way, and this one brings mathematics, quilting and women's history together.
And I love the Aelf Fen mysteries by Alys Clare, set in the reign of William 11.
There is an old-fashioned website (but they do keep it reasonable up to date): www.stopyourekillingme.com/
where you can search mystery series by location, era and occupation!

Not forgetting Inspector Morse in Oxford.

Denzil Meyrick`s books, set in Kintyre, Western Scotland.

Kate Ellis:Wesley Peterson books in Tradmouth (Dartmouth)

Angela Thirkell: Barchester (fictitious but using the area and families created by Trollope)
Daphne du Maurier Cornwall
Janie Bolitho Cornwall

Peter May books- Lewis Man, Coffin Road- set in Lewis and Harris.

Melvyn Bragg.....A time to Dance. The soldiers return, about Soldiers returning home from WW2 to Cumbria.

Oh I forgot, Cormoran Strike for central London, he's often in a pub somewhere in the west end downing Doom Bar! although he did go home to Cornwall in one of the books and Robyn goes back home to Yorkshire in several of them.

Ann Cleeves new series featuring her Detective Inspector Matthew Venn set in North Devon, around Barnstaple are very descriptive of the area, although I don't think they're as good as Vera (Northumberland) or Jimmy Perez (Shetland). All her books give good descriptions of the various landscapes.

I know what you mean about enjoying the setting, Ellie Griffiths' Ruth Galloway books really gave us the impetus to visit North Norfolk, I love the way she evokes not only the salt marshes but her home there, almost as good as the plot imo.

There's always Roy Grace's Brighton of course and his home, in the book, Henfield, mid Sussex often gets a mention, as well as the Sussex coastline adjacent to Brighton. Crimes can be a bit on the grisly side at times.

DCI Banks, Peter Robinson - North Yorkshire

DI Harry Virdee, A A Dhand - Bradford

Roy Grace, Peter James - Brighton

Ian Rankin - Edinburgh.