The Northumbria Mysteries

About The Northumbria Mysteries

Set on Northumberland's coast, the series follows unlikely partners Joe Ruby, a jack-of-all-trades marked by regrets, and Oxford-educated DI Rose O'Connell, a brilliant intellectual, as they solve crimes together.

The Northumbria Mysteries is a crime and mystery series made for BBC One. Robson Green leads the cast as Joe Ruby, Simon Callow as Father David Rutherford, Liz White as DI Rose O'Connell, and Gurjeet Singh as DS Raj Singh.

It has run to one season of 8 episodes since October 2026.

Shelv files it under mysterious and detective.

Spider-Noir, Murder, She Wrote, and Grotesquerie make useful companions to The Northumbria Mysteries.