Shows Like Midsomer Murders

Father Brown

A mild-mannered Cotswolds priest with an uncanny gift for unmasking murderers — the same gentle, high-body-count comfort formula as Midsomer, just swap the detective's badge for a clerical collar.

Miss Marple (1984)

Joan Hickson's definitive Miss Marple pieces together village secrets with quiet, unassuming brilliance — essentially the genre's founding template, decades before Midsomer arrived.

Sister Boniface Mysteries

A Vespa-riding, forensically-minded nun solves murders in the fictional Cotswolds village of Great Slaughter — a spin-off from Father Brown that leans even harder into cozy, quirky charm.

Agatha Raisin

A sharp London PR exec retires to the Cotswolds and keeps stumbling into murders — funnier and breezier than Midsomer, but built from the same village-full-of-secrets DNA.

This one's ended — four series, complete.

McDonald & Dodds

An unassuming, overlooked detective in genteel Bath keeps quietly solving the cases his flashier colleagues miss — gentle, feature-length mysteries very much in Midsomer's mould.

This one's ended — four series, complete.

Beyond Paradise

A Death in Paradise spin-off that trades the Caribbean for a sleepy English coastal village — the closest thing here to Midsomer's own setting, with the same warm, low-stakes charm.

Shakespeare & Hathaway: Private Investigators

An oddball pair of private detectives investigate murder and mischief in postcard-pretty Stratford-upon-Avon — light, funny, and packed with the same quirky village characters Midsomer fans love.