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They are cosy and irrelevant, but that’s the point of twee British murder mysteries


The unstoppable Father Brown is back for an 11th season, with plots that swing wildly from foul play to vampires.

Hollyhocks sway, fetes sell iced lollies and churches run chorister competitions and every single time someone innocently sips a lemon barley water, or eats a strawberry in an embroidered napkin, and, seconds later, they’re foaming at the mouth and falling to the ground. By-the-book Chief Inspector Sullivan (Tom Chambers) and his trusty sidekick Sergeant Goodfellow (John Burton) then rush forth with cross faces saying, “Everyone, get back”, as Father Brown (Mark Williams), his black cassock, broad-brimmed saturno hat and unassuming nature concealing a steel-trap mind, glides quietly into view to listen and ruminate. Plots in the new series swing from brooding chaps in tweed suits and conflicted women in cotton dresses hiding foul play, nefarious affairs, belief in vampires and the return of Father Brown’s former nemesis Hercule Flambeau.

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