Please recommend me a murder mystery

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That lies between cosy mystery and gory murder with gratuitous details.

Cosy mysteries are too cheesy and gory murders too disturbing! Help me on my Goldilocks quest to find the perfect murder series.

Preferably with a female lead. Like Kinsey or VI Warshawski but not them as I’ve read them all and loved them.

🙏🏼 thank you.

The lady hardcastle mysteries arent bad. Set in the country, cosy and nice. Not really gory though so not sure if they'd be too twee for you.

I’ll give them a go! Thank you.

Harriet Vane?
I went on a Dorothy Sayers mystery novels binge earlier this year and loved it...