The 12 Best British Crime Series

Rain-soaked streets, flawed detectives and slow-burn confessions. Some are cozy, some are bleak, and a few are both.

1. 1
   The Fall

   A Belfast-set hunt for a serial killer.
   1000pts
2. 2
   Line of Duty

   A police-corruption thriller about the AC-12 anti-corruption unit.
   908pts
3. 3
   Cracker

   Robbie Coltrane plays a criminal psychologist in the 1990s Granada series.
   659pts
4. 4
   Midsomer Murders

   A long-running English village murder mystery.
   647pts
5. 5
   Happy Valley

   Sarah Lancashire stars as a Yorkshire police sergeant in a tense crime drama.
   647pts
6. 6
   Vera

   Brenda Blethyn plays a Northumberland detective.
   571pts
7. 7
   Sherlock

   A modern take on Conan Doyle's detective starring Benedict Cumberbatch.
   381pts
8. 8
   Broadchurch

   A small-town murder investigation that gripped the nation.
   381pts
9. 9
   Peaky Blinders

   A Birmingham gangster family rises after the First World War.
   381pts
10. 10
    Bodyguard

    A 2018 political thriller starring Richard Madden.
    381pts
11. 11
    Luther

    Idris Elba plays a brilliant but volatile London detective.
    260pts
12. 12
    Inspector Morse

    The Oxford detective who loved opera and crosswords.
    260pts

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