can you suggest anything similar to miss marple /agatha christie?

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Miss M is my fave, but am now also coming to the end of the omnibus set of 4 books per decade by AC. hoping somebody can suggest a similar author? I do also enjoy stuff like the morse books, but love AC mysteries. TIA.

Partrica Cornwell?

forensic stuff it is.....

Ngaio Marsh is a similar Golden Age detective novelist (from roughly the same period - cosy, complex plots, country houses etc)
Margery Allingham also similar -her detective is Albert Campion.
Or Dorothy L Sayers, slightly more intellectual but featuring the lovely Lord Peter Wimsey.
I'd read every single one!

also there are series written now but set in 20s/30s:- David Roberts has written a series with Verity Browne, Charles Todd has a series with Inspector Rutledge, Jacquelien Winspeare has a series with Maisie Dobbs

From golden age - Josephine Tey, ?Edmumnd Crispin.

Georgette Heyer wrote some mysteries that I thought had a similar style to Agatha Crisie.

Love Josephine Tey and, if you can get them from the library or second-hand, the excellent Colin Watson Flaxborough series. Unbelievable that these gems are currently out of print!
This is a cracker too
and as well as being brilliant in its own right this also has several of Aloha's and totalchaos' suggestions in its "also bought" list...

I really like the Miss Seeton books. She's rather bumbling but in a sweet way.

Mary Daheim - 2 cousins like sisters again solving mysteries.

Marcia Muller - Sharon McCone - PI central character

Mary Higgins Clark - few with Alvirah Meehan as the central character unravelling mysteries.

have women as central characters - mysteries.

wow! thanks so much everybody, I'd forgotten I'd managed to post this and just came on to send it now (sleep deprived, waht can i say?!!) how exciting, amazon here i come.
cheers everybody, happy reading.

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My mum likes the Agatha Raisin books by CM Beeton (she who wrote Hamish McBeth), I've read a couple but they are a bit lightweight, and in places just silly.
I like the Agatha Christie, but Poirot is my favourite of her detectives.