From the windswept moors of Yorkshire to the bucolic countryside of Oxfordshire, bodies lie scattered across Great Britain. Well, that’s how it appears if you tune into the bountiful bevy of British detective shows currently on television and the web. While famed sleuths, such as Sherlock Holmes, have made the leap from book pages to screens, as has Miss Marple and Inspector Poirot, some of the best characters can be found in contemporary stories featuring unknown detective inspectors from local police departments. The following are a mere few of the choices available.
Paranoid
This binge-worthy Netflix original premiered in the U.S. on November 18, offering eight episodes of taut, edge-of-your-seat mystery, murder, and conspiracy that saw the police from mythical Woodacre, England, working with a German counterpart in Dusseldorf to unravel intrigue of epic proportion. The top-notch actors include Indira Varma (Game of Thrones), Lesley Sharp (The Full Monty), Danny Huston (American Horror Story), and Kevin Doyle (Downton Abbey). (Netflix Original, 2016)