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

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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

Shitterton in Dorset not made it's mark yet.

Skegness would be good for this.

Has Ayrshire been done? William McIlvanney was from there, but his novels were set in Glasgow.

Ohhh I know Ayrshire a little... Hmmm. Good one.

You could probably do a good Ironbridge Industrial Revolution historical series if you were prepared to do appropriately industrial quantities of research.

@TwoLeftSocksWithHoles would that be a skid mark? I'm ashamed of myself for posting that. 🙈

Guernsey. But maybe more interesting set during the occupation

Exeter?
King’s Lynn?
Stansted (The Budget Airline Murders.)
Grab it while you can!

I don't think the northwest has been covered yet; Manchester, Liverpool or Chester. How about Wales? Anglesey, Cardiff or Swansea?

Dorset is Hardy Country. Great place names there.

Aberystwyth very much covered.

Yes, you do look a little flushed.

Surely it must have been done! 😮

How about my home town of Shropshire?

That’s who I was thinking of. Yes, more coast than fens.

Swindon with a spin off in Slough.

Pauline Rowson has the Solent mysteries, though I couldn't get through the one I tried. Kate Ellis has Devon. Phil Rickman has Herefordshire. The Kent coast - Margate, Ramsgate? Essex? Felixstowe? I feel the more deprived places are less likely to have been covered. Though it might make research trips less fun.

Actually a series set in Heathrow and the surrounding economy could be promising. Drugs, animal smugglers, celebrities, anonymous industrial estates, conference hotels. Again, lots of research needed.

Loads all over Wales already done

Dorset? Yes Hardy wrote about it but I don’t think there are any detective stories.

Very well covered but only for the years 1137-1145.

Kent-lots of apple orchards and unusual hop farm houses.Teapot Island. Tiny old picturesque villages and large towns such as Maidstone, Chatham with its dockyard, the population of Southern English who moved out of London.

Shropshire isn't a town.

the Liverpool murders by Robert McCracken

The Kent coast - Margate, Ramsgate?

The recent Whitstable Pearl series covers a lot of this locality.

What about Rutland?