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British Television Mystery Series: The Madame Blanc Mysteries

This is yet another new (2021) British Cozy Mystery television series that my husband and I enjoy. It’s very Cozy — so if you’re looking for gratuitous violence, sex, language, and/or action-filled car chases — then this isn’t the TV series for you. We just happen to prefer Cozy Mystery television series…

Sally Lindsay (Jean White, the main character) and Sue Vincent (Gloria, a secondary character) are the creators and owners of the production company that makes The Madame Blanc Mysteries. The series features a British antiques dealer who moves to a quaint French village after the death of her husband. Her husband had been sort of stationed in this antiques mecca village for their business – with her living in England. Jean (Madame Blanc) comes to the village to sell their “cottage”. Unfortunately Jean finds out that her husband has depleted all their money and has been living a life that Jean was not at all aware of.

Luckily, Jean hires a taxi driver to get her around (Dom – played by Steve Edge) and he becomes her crime-solving sidekick. Jean starts her sleuthing in order to find out just how her husband died. It turns out that Jean’s attention to detail from her years of antiquing helps her become a very good amateur sleuth!

And, of course, since this is a true Cozy TV series, the village is full of friendly, eccentric people. The French village setting is beautiful. It was filmed in Malta – an archipelago in the Mediterranean Sea, so expect to see beauty all around.

Each 45-minute episode is self-contained – with an arc line that goes through the entire first season. I’m not crazy about ongoing plot arcs – so I am happy the main mysteries are solved during each episode. However, there is a background arc that runs through the entire first season.

I not only enjoyed the characters, scenery, plots, acting, & wardrobe – I also enjoyed hearing about the antiques featured in the shows. The show didn’t ramble on and on about antiquing, but it did include just enough facts to make it interesting.

I recommend The Madame Blanc Mysteries to those of you who are looking for a true Cozy Mystery TV series. It is available on Acorn TV.

Comments

  2. Thanks for this info! My son knows I love British shows so he signed me up for acorn! It’s good to know that there is a series without violence, sex or foul language. I had read Agatha Raisin books written by M. C. Beaton, a mystery writer and was happy when I saw the books had been made into a series but it seems there is more sex in each episode and I’m not crazy about the murder scenes either.
    Doc Martin is also on Acorn. I love this series which is also filmed in England. I’m waiting for season 10.

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    • Loraine, you’re welcome! It’s good that you have a son who will do those sort of things for you – I know I wouldn’t have access to most of the “tech stuff” like Acorn if my husband weren’t so good with it.

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    • If you read books, you should get the Emily Organ’s three series. Loved them. They are set in late 1800s England, which led to many other Amazon suggestions for English cozy mysteries. Then it led to many 1920s England cozies.
      RA Wallace’s series “Goldie Weston Historical Mysteries are set in the 1920s.

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  3. Yes I love the series too. I was hoping that you were announcing another season. I really enjoyed the characters.

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  4. I also enjoyed this series. No word on whether it will be continued, though. Watched the first new ep of McDonald and Dodds (on Britbox, not Acorn as I previously mentioned). Very good, and I liked the new supervisor much better than the one in the last set.

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  9. Yes. I’ve thoroughly enjoyed this series, to my surprise. And, was so excited that it was just picked up for a 2nd season! Yay.

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  10. I just finished watching this series a few days ago, getting the DVR from the library. I really enjoyed it and hope that there is a series 2.

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  16. Thank you for recommending this series. I just checked it out and I love it! Any more cozy mystery TV shows to recommend?

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  17. My husband and I find that cozy mysteries are a perfect compromise for us. They have enough drama and action for him and enough comedy and quirkiness for me. And we both love a good mystery. We now have subscriptions to both Brit Box and Acorn and joke about the actors’ “funny accents” when we watch U.S. shows. Our favorites are Death in Paradise, Shakespeare, and Hawthorne, Brokenwood Mysteries, My Life is Murder, and, of course, Midsomer Murders. For U.S. shows we are enjoying Only Murders in the Building but there is not much to choose from in the current series. Hallmark has no new mystery movies coming up that I’ve heard of. I hope they won’t stop making them.

    Thank you, Danna, for the recommendation on Madame Blanc. I’ll add it to our list.

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  18. Thank you for mentioning that. I’m in the middle of episode one and I think I will like this series.

    And thank you for mentioning The sister Boniface mysteries. They were really good too.

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  19. Thanks for turning me onto this. I am really enjoying it. As you mentioned a true cozy, quirky characters, lovely setting. I needed this escape right now.

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  20. Thank you for telling us about this wonderful series! My husband and I just started watching and we love it!

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