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

Dudley - Angela Marsden writes about Black Country . It may be Kim Stone - I read so many different series !

Ashby-De-La-Zouch. Great sounding name and you could link it to Adrian Mole or that Pandora!

Simon McLeave's DI Ruth Hunter Snowdonia series is set across North Wales - and I've read a couple of other series based in wales too . Ive read a series based on the Wirral . I'm sure I've read one based around Manchester too .

Northern Ireland specifically the Causeway coast...you're welcome!

Rachel McLean writes a series based in Dorset . She's also done one based in Birmingham with a new off spin in Scotland somewhere .

I think k I may have misunderstood the point of this thread !

Shropshire had Ellis Peters Cadfael novels (medieval detective).

Someone mentioned Scilly Isles but there is quite a recent series set there about a former Met detective who moves home. Surprisingly murdery for such a small place.

Don't recall reading any set in Manchester but I imagine that there must have been some.

Has the Peak District been done? Murder in Matlock?

Well that’s just greedy.

Ummmm... Croydon? No lack of crime there.

Or West London.. I nearly committed murder last night/early morning when some drunk stood outside whistling for hours. Hate whistling anyway but especially when I am trying to sleep and then doing an early shift!

Just thinking about Manchester, Cath Staincliffe's Scott and Bailey series was set in Manchester. So that's another off the map.

You didn't. I'm amused by how many detectives set in specific geographic areas there are. Seems to be a winning combination. There's loads here I've never heard of.... !

Whistling Murder.... I can see the book jacket now

Ooh, which is the Wirral
series, please?

PD James had a serial killer called the Whistler in one of her novels, the one set in and around a nuclear power plant, I think in Norfolk?

I don't think anyone has taken Mansfield.

Luca Veste writes about Liverpool and sometimes crosses over to the Wirral.

The Hampshire Hacker
New Forest
Winchester
Southampton

The Enfield Executioner
Ponders End
Palmers Green
Edmonton

The Stansted Slasher
Bishop’s Stortford
Great Dunmow
Sawbridgeworth

Wolverhampton?

Even more parochial than Jersey and I never understood how it took Jim Bergerac 55 minutes to get his man.
Sorry, I've lowered the bar to include tv

Loving this thread, I also love her books but was cross that she'd laid claim to the area where I grew up. My future best selling crime novels are therefore going to be profession based - and no I'm not saying which one!

Jessica Daniels series by Kerry Wilkinson is Manchester area

Stephen Booth has done the Peak District.

Harry Bingham has a great series about Fiona Griffiths and the South Wales Police. Really gripping but he hasn't published one in a while.

As for Wales in general, Jasper Fforde has done various fantasy versions of Wales in his novels.

Actually, maybe you could do an alternative universe version of any of the regions mentioned above OP? That would give you huge opportunities to abandon all fact-checking and authenticity, which would make life much easier for you as an author😁 Good luck!

Done on TV. "Murder in Suburbia" was brilliant.

Come back Ash and Scribs (& Boss), we miss you!