Shows Like Midsomer Murders

The Short Answer

1. 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. (BritBox)
2. Miss Marple — Joan Hickson's definitive Miss Marple pieces together village secrets with quiet, unassuming brilliance — essentially the genre's founding template, decades before Midsomer arrived. (BritBox)
3. 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. (BritBox)
4. 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. (Acorn TV)
5. 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. (BritBox)
6. 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. (BritBox)
7. Shakespeare & Hathaway — 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. (BritBox)