Walk Where Morse Walked. Wander the Villages of Midsomer. Make the Trip Real.

The travel memoir and guide for fans of Inspector Morse, Midsomer Murders, Miss Marple, and more — bundled with The Inspired Itinerary Planner so you can design your own travel adventure with a complete itinerary.

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You know the feeling.

Imagine you're watching Endeavour — again! — and Morse walks alone through the rain-slicked streets of Oxford, the spires rising behind him, opera playing softly in the background. And somewhere between one episode and the next, a thought takes root that won't quite leave:

I want to be there.

Not on a tour bus. Not following a guide holding a small flag. Just standing there, in the actual place, feeling what it feels like when fiction becomes real stone beneath your feet.

That feeling. This yearning. It all started on our sofa as we watched another episode where someone dies suspiciously in a churchyard or an immense library by a vicar or a professor in a beautiful village where the quiet but opulent life is disrupted by gossip and villains.

That's where this started. And that's exactly where this book, The Great British Murder Mystery Tour, will take you.

The Book That Began as a Pilgrimage

My wife and I spent years watching British murder mysteries the way devoted fans do — obsessively, loyally, learning the streets of Oxford and the lanes of the Cotswolds from a television screen.

Endeavour led to Inspector Morse, which in turn led to Lewis. Then Midsomer Murders, Father Brown, Miss Marple, Agatha Raisin, The Chelsea Detective, McDonald & Dodds...

The places had become as familiar as characters. Oxford's Radcliffe Camera. The honey-colored village lanes of Gloucestershire. The grand Georgian crescents of Bath. We had seen them so many times that we could anticipate camera angles.

We can pick out actors and recount, "Wait, wasn't she in..." Or "Wasn't he the killer in..."

And familiarity, it turns out, eventually becomes insufficient.

So, we planned a two-week trip built entirely around the shows we loved. No rental car. No packaged tours. Just trains, buses, and the ancient footpaths that connect one cozy crime village to the next — walking the same streets as Morse and Endeavour, lingering in the same Oxford pubs, hiking through the Cotswolds countryside that has served as the backdrop for more fictional murders than anywhere else on earth. (The current body count in 25 seasons of Midsomer Murders is about 388.)

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Oxford University, UK

What You're Getting

In other words, this was a dream trip for us. Dream trips only happen when they are well planned and executed with as much intention as possible.

For us, the result is The Great British Murder Mystery Tour. It is the story of that journey. It serves two purposes:

  1. Your complete guide to follow our exact trip and immerse yourself in the cozy murders of the U.K., or
  2. Inspiration for you to design your own dream trip and take action to get off the sofa.
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Our Great Murder Mystery Map

The Great British Murder Mystery isn't a dry guidebook. It's an invitation to tag along.

The book follows a clean, replicable loop through England's murder mystery heartland:

London → Oxford → The Cotswolds → Bath → London

Along the way, we share the filming locations with the context that makes them meaningful — where Morse's red Jaguar pulled to the curb outside the Ashmolean, which Cotswolds villages provided the backdrop for Midsomer and Father Brown, how Bath's Georgian elegance frames McDonald & Dodds, and which London neighborhoods feel purpose-built for crime drama.

We share the practical lessons: how we booked, what we'd do differently, when to reserve in advance, and when to stay flexible. And we share the thing guidebooks almost never capture — what it actually feels like when a place you've watched for years suddenly becomes real around you.

The crimes are fictional. The places are very real. And once you see them, you'll find yourself wanting to visit them too.

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David & Charlsa at the ancient Yew tree doors in Stow-on-the-Wold. Tolkien used these as the model for the Doors of Durin.

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But what if you're not enamored with the latest murder in a small village in Gloucestershire? That's alright. We want to inspire you to take your dream trip to create unforgettable memories.

The book brings a trip to life. The Inspired Itinerary Planner turns inspiration into an actual itinerary.

Charlsa is usually the planner, but I took the responsibility for this trip, using artificial intelligence to help me create the perfect itinerary. Then, I began looking for lodging, food, activities, and much more.

Budget is always a concern, but this tool gives you a ballpark range for your trip. For example, our estimated budget for the British Murder Mystery Tour was between $5,200 and $7,800. Our actual spend was about $6,000.

The organization of all this took a couple of weeks. There had to be a better way to create an inspirational itinerary based on any idea in just a matter of minutes. 

That's why I built this planning tool after our trip, specifically for travelers who want to design their own themed journey — whether that's a British murder-mystery tour or any travel experience built around a passion. It's the tool we wished we'd had when we were planning.

With The Inspired Itinerary Planner, you can build a custom itinerary organized by region and theme, map locations alongside practical logistics, track where you've been and what you want to see, plan around your favorite obsessions, at your pace and your travel style, and share your itinerary with whoever's coming with you.

Together, the book and the planner form a complete system. The book gives you the story, the context, and the proof that a themed trip is extraordinary. The planner gives you the framework to build your own dream trip.

We've bundled the Planner with the book because we want readers to actually take the trip, not just dream about it. The book inspires the journey. The Planner builds it. Separating them felt like handing someone a map with no compass. At some point we'll sell them separately — the Planner on its own is $97 — but for now, buy the book and you get both.

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At Some Point, Watching the World from the Sofa Isn't Enough. You've Got to Get Up and Go. We'll Help You Get Started...

Life has a way of filling up. The trip you keep meaning to take has a habit of continuing to be something you mean to take. At some point, that isn't enough.

Time runs out.

Like us, you may go where the detectives walked — stand in the Morse Bar at The Randolph Hotel, hike the footpaths between Cotswolds villages, and feel the weight of Oxford's ancient stone under your feet.

Your dream trip doesn't have to involve a single fictional murder. It might be Civil War battlefields in Virginia, your grandmother's village in County Clare, a slow week in Provence learning to order wine properly, or a ridge walk in the Swiss Alps with nothing but altitude and silence.

All of these things are possible. This book will show you what a similar trip is like.

But the Inspired Itinerary Planner will help you build, price, and book it.

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