Murder, She Wrote

Series Similar to Murder, She Wrote

If you enjoyed Murder, She Wrote, these series share similar themes, tone, and quality. Each recommendation is scored on genre overlap, tonal match, and critical acclaim.

1. Frankie Drake Mysteries

   2017 · Drama, Crime, Mystery · ended95% match

   Recommended for similar Crime / Mystery profile.

   Set in Toronto during the 1920s, Frankie Drake Mysteries follows the city's only female private detective as she takes on the cases the police don't want or can't handle. Her gender is her biggest advantage - who would ever think a woman could be a detective? She has a knack for solving cases but she's no cop - her brand of justice doesn't always follow the law. Along with her partner Trudy, Frankie and the Drake Detective Agency take on cases of all shapes and sizes. From airplanes and booze running to American G-men, Communists and union busters, Frankie's fearless sense of adventure gets her into all kinds of trouble, but she always manages to find her way out. In a time of change and hopefulness, Frankie is a woman ahead of everyone. She's a new detective for a new world. But is the world ready for her?

2. Columbo

   1968 · Drama, Crime, Mystery · ended94% match

   Recommended for similar Crime / Mystery profile, highly rated (8).

   This is the detective series that inspired them all. Legendary actor Peter Falk is back in his 4-time Emmy® Award winning role, as the ruffled, cigar-chomping, trenchcoat-wearing police lieutenant who is asking all the right questions.

3. Mistletoe Murders

   2024 · Drama, Crime, Mystery · returning94% match

   Recommended for similar Crime / Mystery profile.

   Emily Lane is a good-natured Christmas shop owner with a secret past. When local murders begin to pop up in Fletcher's Grove, Emily can't help but to use her unique talents from her past life to help solve murders that affect people in her new life. She crosses paths with Detective Sam Wilner who she starts to make a connection with, until he comes to learn there is more to Emily than meets the eye.

4. Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries

   2012 · Drama, Crime · ended94% match

   Recommended for similar Crime profile, highly rated (8).

   Our glamorous lady detective, The Honourable Miss Phryne Fisher, swans into early 1929 Melbourne, fighting injustice with her pearl-handled pistol and her dagger-sharp wit.

5. Rosemary & Thyme

   2003 · Drama, Crime, Mystery · ended94% match

   Recommended for similar Crime / Mystery profile.

   Rosemary Boxer and Laura Thyme are two amateur green-fingered sleuths who came together through a mutual love of plants and troubled social lives. Together they start a gardening business, tackling horticultural problems for anybody who requires help. However, mystery is never very far behind them, and the dynamic and inquisitive duo tries to solve the murderous goings on whilst dealing with problems a little closer to their profession.

6. Ms Fisher's Modern Murder Mysteries

   2019 · Drama, Crime, Mystery · returning94% match

   Recommended for similar Crime / Mystery profile.

   Set in 1964, gorgeously reckless Peregrine Fisher inherits a windfall when the famous aunt she never knew goes missing over the highlands of New Guinea. Peregrine must prove herself brilliant enough to become a world class private detective in her own right.

7. Queens of Mystery

   2019 · Drama, Crime, Mystery · ended93% match

   Recommended for similar Crime / Mystery profile.

   Queens of Mystery follows Matilda Stone, a perennially single female detective, and her three aunts, who are well-known crime writers that help her solve whodunit style murders as well as set her up on blind dates. The Amelie-esque style contemporary murder mystery series will feature quirky characters, fast-paced dialogue and darkly comic murders.

8. My Life Is Murder

   2019 · Drama, Crime, Mystery · returning93% match

   Recommended for similar Crime / Mystery profile.

   Investigator Alexa Crowe, cannot help fighting the good fight – whether it is solving murders or combatting the small frustrations of everyday life. Fearless and unapologetic, Alexa's unique skills and insights into the darker quirks of human nature, allows her to provoke, comfort and push the right buttons as she unravels the truth behind the most baffling of crimes.

9. Miss Scarlet

   2020 · Drama, Crime, Mystery · returning93% match

   Recommended for similar Crime / Mystery profile.

   When Eliza's father dies, he leaves her penniless in a time where marriage is the only option for financial security. But the headstrong Eliza has an ace up her bonnet - her father's business, a detective agency. But it's Victorian London and, to operate in this man's world, she needs a partner.Step forward consummate rogue Detective Inspector William Wellington of Scotland Yard, aka "The Duke".Eliza and Duke strike up a fiery relationship as they team up to solve puzzling crimes in the murkiest depths of 1880s London.

10. Sister Boniface Mysteries

    2022 · Drama, Mystery · returning93% match

    Recommended for similar Mystery profile.

    Entertaining detective drama following the investigations of Sister Boniface of St Vincent's Convent - nun, moped rider, wine maker and part-time forensic scientist.