Thursday Murder Club

From Midsomer to Jersey: an investigation into cosy crime locales

Satirical novelist Jonathan Coe skewers many peculiarities of modern Britain in his latest book, The Proof Of My Innocence. “I don’t think there’s another country in the world that would take the subject of violent homicide and rebrand it as ‘cosy’,” says one character. “It’s very British, in some indefinable way.”