The Best Mystery Series to Watch

The Best Mystery Series Out There… Or So I Think!

My confession: I love crime shows. My favourite are true crime shows where they follow an investigation or explain how they caught a killer. When we stay in a hotel and the kids are in bed, my guilty pleasure is to watch an evening of true crime shows!

My husband and I also enjoy watching fictional crime mini-series, especially from the UK.

Here are some of our favourites that we recommend checking out:

The Bridge – This is a Danish/Swedish series with subtitles. There is an American version, but I hear it’s not as good! There are two series.
Crime drama in which a bi-national police team is put together to investigate when the body of a woman is found in the middle of the Oresund Bridge between Sweden and Denmark.

Broadchurch – Set on the Dorset coast, it centres on the death of an eleven-year-old boy, and the search for his murderer by detectives Alec Hardy (Tennant) and Ellie Miller (Colman)

Life on Mars – Drama about a present-day Manchester detective who, after suffering near-fatal injuries in a car-crash, awakes to find himself living in 1973

Luther – Crime drama series starring Idris Elba as Luther, a near-genius murder detective whose brilliant mind can’t always save him from the dangerous violence of his passions

Sherlock – Sherlock Holmes and Dr John Watson’s adventures in 21st Century London. A thrilling, funny, fast-paced contemporary reimagining of the Arthur Conan Doyle classic

Wallander – Drama series starring Kenneth Branagh as Swedish detective Kurt Wallander, investigating a series of violent and terrifying murders in the beautiful setting of Skane, southern Sweden.

What other crime series do you recommend?