UK mystery series, a list by Jef Westerveld

75

/546/

66

/51/

3.3

/2795/

83

/23/

41

58

/9/

2.0

age 14+

A desperate father searching for his runaway daughter gets caught up in a murder case — and stumbles upon secrets which could destroy his family for good.

74

15

6.8

/748/

75

/24/

80

/10/

Set in the mystery-shrouded Peak District, the series follows two mismatched young detectives: affable local Ben Cooper and guarded newcomer Diane Fry. Thrown together to investigate a string of mysterious deaths they must learn to work together to get results. As their personal lives begin to intertwine, a unique friendship begins to form... but it won't always be easy.

NEW

53

49

5.8

/4461/

63

/340/

68

/32/

44

/25/

39

52

/12/

age 15+

A charming tutor infiltrates a wealthy family's life, revealing a sinister agenda.

74

IMDb 19

7.5

/26374/

76

/864/

82

/93/

3.8

/25055/

80

/40/

73

63

/18/

3.0

age 14+

In Chicago, Marissa Irvine arrives at 14 Arthur Avenue, expecting to pick up her young son Milo from his first playdate with a boy at his new school. But the woman who answers the door isn't a mother she recognizes. She isn't the nanny. She doesn't have Milo. And so begins every parent's worst nightmare.

69

IMDb 89

7.0

/11175/

68

/824/

67

/65/

79

/57/

59

71

/23/

age 15+

When a child goes missing in the aftermath of a house explosion, a concerned neighbor teams up with a private investigator to find them. As secrets unravel and a military conspiracy emerges, all hell is unleashed on South Oxford's sleepy suburbs.

71

IMDb 93

7.3

/40456/

74

/1693/

70

/140/

3.7

/10354/

67

/63/

81

63

/24/

age 15+

A rising-star restaurateur is forced into New York's criminal underworld when his chaotic brother returns to town with loan sharks on his trail.

65

45

6.2

/2725/

64

/102/

73

/15/

70

/10/

59

/8/

A man in the midst of a mid-life crisis moves his family to a remote Scottish village, only to find himself entangled in a dangerous friendship with a sinister neighbour.

48

?

5.3

/538/

59

/25/

32

/9/

A mum’s fresh start with her son takes a dark turn when a chilling rumour spreads through the town.

64

31

6.2

/1448/

66

/126/

64

/22/

3.2

/539/

age 15+

When Joni was 14, her best friend Gracie Darling disappeared during a séance. Some 27 years on, the local kids in a small town get their kicks with a game of 'Playing Gracie Darling' – but the seemingly innocent game turns sinister when another girl disappears. Joni, by then a child psychologist, returns to the town and partners with a police sergeant Jay to uncover the truth, while Gracie's sister Ruth faces a mother's worst nightmare when her own daughter vanishes under hauntingly similar circumstances.

66

?

7.0

/886/

74

/30/

56

/3/

The enigmatic Isabelle moves into a small seaside cul-de-sac where her obsessive drive to solve a mystery casts suspicion on four neighbouring families. Based on bestselling Australian author Sally Hepworth's novel.

62

6.3

/5261/

65

/451/

67

/54/

74

/19/

44

61

/9/

Secluded on a remote Greek island, retired assassin Julie has a somewhat thorny reunion with her estranged son, Edward, visiting from England. Armed with questions around new information on his paternity, Edward battles to find the right time to speak to his frustratingly distant mother. But, when the moment finally presents itself, things take a deadly turn as Julie’s dangerous past catches up with her and they are forced to flee the island and go on the run together.

76

62

6.8

/2880/

68

/200/

67

/22/

100

/11/

78

/7/

Gabriel Book, proprietor of an antiquarian bookshop, relies on his vast collection to unravel baffling cases. He nurtures a group of lovable yet troubled individuals, providing informal protection and guidance.

70

?

6.6

/976/

68

/24/

77

/7/

Based on the books by Parnell Hall, The series sees Cora, who recently moved to the sleepy English town of Bakerbury with her niece, asked to help the local police with a strange murder where a crossword puzzle is left on the body.

74

6.6

/8388/

70

/641/

67

/62/

3.4

/2633/

100

/15/

70

age 15+

Fifteen years ago, the loss of three young people tore this sleepy seaside town apart. Now, the mysterious death of a young woman dredges up the past.

81

IMDb 77

8.1

/103623/

79

/4206/

80

/323/

88

/59/

90

69

/22/

age 13+

A brash but brilliant cop becomes head of a new police department, where he leads an unlikely team of misfits in solving Edinburgh's cold cases.

70

59

7.0

/3511/

68

/125/

64

/26/

75

/12/

79

66

/6/

Thrown together by the murder of John's neighbour, John and Janie are an odd, yet hilarious duo with opposing instincts. Every week, they get to the bottom of gripping murders, with various stunning Welsh locations providing a backdrop to their investigations.

78

69

7.1

/4412/

72

/202/

68

/23/

100

/24/

77

80

/9/

A deaf catering worker who is struggling to make ends meet is called upon by a police detective superintendent to lip-read the conversations of criminals.

73

63

7.1

/3152/

66

/164/

55

/23/

100

/8/

81

70

/6/

Explosive events unfold after Wright family patriarch Jack is discovered dead from a supposed suicide, leaving his immediate family utterly devastated.

64

6.4

/6347/

68

/755/

61

/62/

3.0

/2958/

87

/15/

40

66

/9/

age 14+

Mother of two, Elisa, allows her daughter, Lucia, to go on an impromptu sleepover with her new best friend Josephine after meeting Josephine's mother, Rebecca, at her beautiful home. But when Elisa arrives to collect Lucia the next day, the house turns out to be an empty luxury rental and Lucia has been abducted.

76

?

7.1

/975/

68

/56/

66

/8/

100

/10/

77

/6/

Recently released prisoner Daniel Brennan embodies the struggle of a man caught between two worlds, unable to fully integrate into the hearing world and shunned by his closest friends and the wider deaf community following his heinous crime. Amidst this isolation, Brennan's only meaningful relationship is with his estranged daughter Carly, who he has not had any contact with since his arrest over a decade ago.

69

48

7.0

/2377/

64

/77/

71

/9/

78

/9/

70

62

/5/

age 13+

A mystery that touches on family matters, motherhood and those women whose legacy defines the generations that blossom after them.

56

27

5.9

/1334/

63

/103/

52

/10/

50

/6/

Excited to make a fresh start away from London, Martyn and Rebecca move into a beautiful house in Glasgow with their two young children. At first, the new home seems idyllic, but when their neighbour Jan makes unnerving comments to Rebecca it turns out to be the start of something far more intimidating.

73

46

6.6

/1989/

68

/67/

59

/18/

100

/6/

Ex-cop Jim Bergerac is forced to confront a troubling past case when a wealthy woman is murdered, pushing him to overcome personal demons and reignite his investigative prowess to navigate family tensions and law enforcement scrutiny.

61

35

6.4

/1708/

62

/94/

56

/17/

63

/8/

A Bradford cop with his personal life in chaos must hunt down a killer targeting the Asian community.

69

33

7.0

/1959/

70

/64/

68

/5/

70

/6/

A farmer is confronted with dark forces seeping into his rural community, leading to an investigation into the county lines drug cartel.

71

59

6.8

/4141/

67

/157/

72

/18/

88

/8/

65

71

/6/

DCI Jeanette Kilburn and eminent psychotherapist Dr. Sophia Craven join forces to hunt the killer of young men. The investigation takes Jeanette and Sophia into a dangerous world of historic abuse and murder.

61

?

6.1

/713/

62

/25/

60

/4/

Kat Crichton is a young Family Liaison Officer assigned to investigate the brutal murder of the wife of a local tycoon at a remote island mansion. The murder investigation unravels on the island of Lewis and Harris, from where Kat mysteriously fled ten years previously.

75

7.2

/72676/

75

/3362/

71

/349/

92

/72/

64

78

/31/

age 15+

When a spy posing as a politician's wife learns her lover has been murdered, an old assassin friend joins her on a quest for truth — and vengeance.

78

61

7.4

/4022/

68

/132/

75

/16/

100

/10/

73

/4/

age 14+

Susan has left publishing and is living in Crete with her long-time boyfriend, Andreas. But her idyll is disturbed by the shadow of a murder committed at a British country hotel eight years ago. Alan Conway visited the hotel and wrote a novel based on what happened there. Cecily MacNeil, the young woman who helps run the hotel, read the book and believed the wrong man had been arrested. Now she has disappeared. Can Susan uncover the secret hidden in the book and find Cecily before it is too late?

79

8.1

/123704/

80

/5664/

81

/902/

4.1

/38017/

85

/54/

77

72

/28/

age 14+

An unrivalled and highly elusive lone assassin, the Jackal, makes his living carrying out hits for the highest fee. But following his latest kill, he meets his match in a tenacious British intelligence officer who starts to track down the Jackal in a thrilling cat-and-mouse chase across Europe, leaving destruction in its wake.

65

53

7.5

/3887/

70

/166/

60

/32/

57

/5/

DCI Ellis, a tenacious cop, is parachuted into failing investigations alongside her partner DS Harper. Each case will bring her to a different police station where she'll have to not only immerse herself in the case, but also win over the local police.

66

26

6.8

/2101/

67

/65/

63

/12/

The shocking murder of a nurse opens old wounds in a small-town community, throwing a historic conviction into doubt, raising the horrifying prospect of a copycat killer and reuniting two former lovers tasked with finding the killer.

74

7.5

/41793/

72

/1613/

74

/255/

3.7

/38391/

76

/102/

65

70

/32/

3.5

age 16+

When an intriguing novel appears at the bedside of a journalist whose career has been built on revealing transgressions, she is horrified to realize she's a key character in a long-buried story—one that exposes her darkest secret.

NEW

83

8.1

/20504/

78

/855/

76

/89/

97

/33/

87

78

/20/

age 13+

John Taylor lives in quiet solitude, designing puzzles for a living, under the nom-de-plume of 'Ludwig'. When his identical twin, James, disappears off the face of the earth, John takes over his brother's identity in a quest to discover his whereabouts.

NEW

65

?

5.2

/537/

60

/13/

71

/6/

Mystery drama following the explosive unravelling of a family during one hot summer in the Med.

59

43

7.0

/2226/

67

/167/

68

/23/

60

/5/

34

DI Mackenzie Clarke is forced to leave London under a cloud of suspicion and return to the last place she ever wanted to be, her hometown of Dolphin Cove, Australia where her tenacity and work ethic helps her solve murder mysteries.

72

6.8

/23517/

71

/1423/

74

/269/

83

/42/

68

69

/20/

age 14+

Five years after the death of schoolgirl Andie Bell, Pippa Fitz-Amobi sets out to uncover what really happened to her. Sal Singh, Andie's boyfriend, admitted to the murder before taking his own life, but Pip doesn't believe he's responsible and teams up with Sal's brother Ravi to uncover the truth. If Sal Singh isn't a murderer and the real killer is still out there, how far will they go to keep Pip from finding out the truth?

65

6.9

/41356/

69

/1667/

70

/270/

3.5

/31113/

72

/78/

57

61

/32/

2.5

age 15+

A desperate father, alongside a tenacious cop, battles his own demons on the streets of 1980s New York as he searches for his missing nine-year-old son.

51

35

6.2

/1803/

60

/112/

61

/21/

44

/9/

29

50

/6/

Emma a successful woman fears of losing her mind after suffering from sleep deprivation two weeks before turning 40. Only by investigating the truth of her painful past, can she find the answers to her present.

73

?

7.1

/260/

73

/13/

76

/7/

Who is Arthur Knight? A bookish nice guy just woken up from a coma? Or Nicholas Rossi in disguise - a sexually aggressive narcissist and one of America's most wanted?

71

68

6.8

/4802/

66

/288/

67

/48/

81

/27/

75

70

/14/

age 14+

The year is 1536. Lawyer Matthew Shardlake finds his life turned upside down when Thomas Cromwell sends him to investigate a suspicious death at the remote monastery of Scarnsea. Deception, deceit, and corruption are rife as it soon becomes clear that the murder is not the first. Shardlake is drawn into a web of lies that threatens not only his integrity but his life.

69

41

6.7

/1616/

65

/81/

65

/16/

78

/4/

age 15+

Smart, capable and by the book Grace Narayan was flying high as an inner-city police sergeant before being forced into a 'punishment posting' on the small, antiquated island of St. Jory. Confronted by the forgotten and unsolved case of missing teenage boy Cai, Grace quickly discovers that she must overcome scarce evidence, extraordinary local characters, and the island's strange cult history to uncover the truth.

61

IMDb 50

7.1

/10260/

70

/628/

71

/91/

38

/19/

61

59

/6/

age 14+

London police officer DC Hana Li is escorting Dr Matthew Nolan back to Beijing where he has been accused of a crime. However, on board flight 357, she finds herself embroiled in an escalating conspiracy and a growing number of murders.

63

50

5.8

/2372/

58

/107/

56

/23/

67

/9/

68

73

/7/

A close-knit community is sent spinning on its axis following a series of strange and unnatural crimes.

65

34

7.0

/2568/

68

/116/

58

/17/

When detective Andrea 'Andie' Whitford is transferred to the Victorian High Country, she is thrust into a baffling mystery of five missing persons who have vanished into the wilderness. Through an edge-of-the-seat, high-stakes investigation, Andie uncovers a complex web involving murder, deceit and revenge.

66

50

7.2

/4318/

68

/116/

63

/26/

61

/11/

age 13+

Retired archaeologist Judith Potts lives alone in a faded mansion in the peaceful town of Marlow, filling her time by setting crosswords for the local paper. During one of her regular wild swims in the Thames, Judith hears a gunshot coming from a neighbour's garden and believes a brutal murder has taken place.

66

?

6.3

/656/

57

/39/

78

/4/

5 years ago, Elliot came home to find his soulmate Peter had vanished—with nothing left behind but his finger in a puddle of blood. Still living with Peter's twin Jess, they don't know if he ran away, was kidnapped or worse. Elliot tries moving on, and after a magical date with wonderful Will, that seems possible. But when shit hits the fan, Elliot and Jess know they need to find out the truth.

NEW

66

6.7

/21589/

66

/1580/

70

/329/

72

/53/

62