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

Dover - the Nigel Chronicles

You're just yanking my chain

@NancyJoan so my protagonist will run a crime fiction bookshop... just running with this a bit. I like it.... Could take in Monmouth, Hereford.... Ohhh yess.... This is good 😊

No one knows where Rutland is. I’m not convinced it’s real.

Joy Ellis

Cambridge?
North Wales?
Hull?

@OutOfTheHouse , it's sort of in the area between Leicester and Peterborough.

Stevenage.

Brentwood — the nail salon murders.
(Or Bodies in the Tanning Booth. )

Love it

Peter Grainger has covered Kings Lynn and the Fens too.
Ann Cleeves’ latest series has pinched part of Devon.
Dorothy Simpson has Kent.
Peter Lovesey took Bath.
Frost was Oxfordshire - Didcot?
I think Peter Robinson has North Yorkshire.

How about the Lakes or Lancaster?
can’t think of any in Chester !

Surely someone has taken the Lakes?!

Ooh, how about Northern Ireland??

Leicester? Milton Keynes? Stamford?

Id read something set in Rutland.

I can only think of a series of cosies - Rebecca Tope, perhaps, and I think amateur detective.
there’s probably room for more!

Ohhh that'd be a good one. Not for me as an English lass but I'd enjoy that. Someone with local knowledge needs to do that one and I'd read/watch it!

It'd have to be adapted for telly because I love a northern Irish accent 👍🏻

Within the series, there might be a poisoning at the Abergavenny Food Festival, a terrible flute accident at Brecon Jazz. A tent peg to the eye at Green Man. The festival killer must be stopped!

(Not that I have ever written a book and this is entirely my fantasy retirement plan 😆)

Loads, for obvious reasons. Stuart Neville, Adrian McKinty, Eoin McNamee, Claire McGowan, Brian McGilloway, Steve Kavanagh, Anne Marie Neary etc etc.

Rachel Lynch has the Lakes covered.

Nancy you're too good! I love this.

Oh definitely Swindon, or Milton Keynes. A plucky middle aged IT worker must hack the local council’s archives to catch the Swindon Strangler, or the Roundabout Rapist.

Leicester? Milton Keynes? Stamford?

Stamford would be great. They have a Georgian Festival there where everyone dresses up - a tailor-made Jane Austen tie-in. Perfect for a sleuth who runs a bookshop.

Ooh yes and you have the disused coal mines in the Forest of Dean (weird somewhat lawless place) for disposing of bodies...

Superb! I would so read these!