Humour me. When I become the next big thing in crime fiction...

[SodOffbacktoaibu]

Just had a lovely bath listening to my guilty pleasure that is LJ Ross's DCI Ryan books. ...

I'm thinking it'd be a lovely retirement gig writing detective novels.... So where can I set my fictional detective series...?

Everywhere is taken isn't it?

L j Ross has nicked my home area of Durham to Northumberland

We've got Vera too.

Shetland is taken obviously.

Grace has covered Brighton.

Edinburgh is Rebus

There's that other one in the fens..

Help me fill in the blanks and I'll see where's left for me to move to for research before I knock out my million selling bestsellers and take the crime fiction world by storm

Mo Hayder has Bristol/South Glos covered.

Luton!?

The Scottish Highlands has been covered by Margaret Kirk and her DI Lukas Mahler.

Reginald Hill's Sixsmith novels are set in Luton!

Oxford is Morse of course and Cara Hunter's Adam Fawley, and Simon Mason's Ryan Wilkes (amongst others)

The Fens have gone as well but I’m buggered if I can remember the author.

I bet no one has done Kettering

Elly Griffith's Ruth Galloway is set in Norfolk but I think more coastal than fens

Daziel and Pascoe ?

Dick Francis had the Berkshire Downs. Damien Boyd's got Somerset.

Reading?
Basingstoke?
Crawley?

Soho

Even Luton! (Though I'm definitely not moving there)

Suburbia

Hay on Wye. Death between the shelves at the booksellers.

Ahhh Kettering. I only know it as a stop on the east coast mainline I think?

I'll start my research... Is it nice?

Dudley

Barnsley

Nuneaton

Telford

Genius!! Omg.... I LOVE Hay .... Totally doing it...

Wallingford or Folkestone. Very different.

Bognor Regis

Bournemouth?
Scilly Isles!

Holmes has London covered

(Marple? Poirot? Technically global domination)

FYI...I've got a map on the go plotting these places with pins and bits of string 😁 in my head

Id love to go to the Scilly isles but it'd be worse than midsommer (that's The west country taken too) with a teeny population 🤔