Cherringham series by Matthew Costello and Neil Richards

The Author

Neil Richards has worked as a producer and writer in TV and film, creating scripts for BBC, Disney, and Channel 4, and earning numerous Bafta nominations along the way.

He’s also written script and story for over 20 video games including The Da Vinci Code and Starship Titanic, co-written with Douglas Adams, and consults around the world on digital storytelling.

His writing partnership with NYC-based Matt Costello goes back to the late 90’s and the two have written many hours of TV together. Cherringham the series is their first crime fiction as co-writers.

An American and an Englishman writing crime stories with an American and an English hero – what took us so long?

The Books

Cherringham – a quiet town in the Cotswolds.

Nothing ever happens there, or so it seems – until one morning a woman’s body is found in the river. A terrible accident, according to the police. But is this true? Sarah believes there must be more to it. In Jack, a former NYPD homicide detective, she finds a partner who is willing to start investigating with her. They soon find out that things are not as clear as the police want them to be … This first – of many cases brings Sarah and Jack together in an unlikely partnership. Cherringham is a serial novel à la Charles Dickens, with a new mystery thriller released each month. Set in the sleepy English village of Cherringham, the detective series brings together an unlikely sleuthing duo: English web designer Sarah and American ex-cop Jack. Thrilling and deadly – but with a spot of tea – it’s like Rosamunde Pilcher meets Inspector Barnaby. Each of the self-contained episodes is a quick read for the morning commute, while waiting for the doctor, or when curling up with a hot cuppa.

For fans of Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple series, Lilian Jackson Braun’s The Cat Who series, Caroline Graham’s Midsomer Murders, and the American TV series Murder She Wrote, starring Angela Lansbury. Co-authors Neil Richards (based in the UK) and Matthew Costello (based in the US), are known for their script work on major computer games.

The Cherringham crime series is their first fictional transatlantic collaboration.

The books in suggested reading order
Murder on Thames
The Body in the Woods
Murder by Moonlight
Thick as Thieves
Last Train to London
The Curse of Mabb’s Farm
The Body in the Lake
Snowblind
Playing Dead
A Deadly Confession
Blade in the Water
Death on a Summer Night
A Lesson in Murder
The Secret of Combe Castle
A Fatal Fall
The Last Puzzle
Final Cut
The Vanishing Tourist
Ghost of a Chance
Follow the Money
Murder Most Wild
The Song Never Dies
A Bad Lie
A Death in the Family
Dead in the Water
Death on a Moonlit Night
Scared to Death