Best Murder Mystery Shows You Can’t Miss (Ranked 30 to 1)

30. Lady in the Lake

This is 1960s Baltimore where two mysteries are tangled in the city’s shadows, two lives cut short. Natalie Portman is mesmerizing as a housewife who abandons domesticity to chase the truth as a journalist. Moses Ingram stuns as a bartender whose death sparks questions no one dares answer. Together, their stories bleed into each other, creating a haunting portrait of ambition, race, and violence that will not let you go.

28. A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder

Don’t underestimate Pip Fitz-Amobi. Emma Myers plays the British teen detective with razor-sharp determination as she reopens the cold case of Andie Bell’s disappearance. Five years have passed, the boyfriend accused has long been dead, but Pip is certain the truth is buried deeper. With her final-year school project as a cover, she digs into the town’s secrets and uncovers more than she ever bargained for.

27. Death and Other Details

Luxury, power, and murder sail together on a glittering cruise ship, but beneath the champagne flutes lies a ghost from the past. Imogene lost her mother in a fiery explosion years ago, a crime that the “world’s greatest detective” (Mandy Patinkin) failed to solve. Now, reunited on this opulent voyage, another murder throws them back into the unsolved case that shaped her life. On the open sea, there’s nowhere to hide and every secret is about to surface.

23. Under the Banner of Heaven

Andrew Garfield gives a soul-stirring performance as Detective Jeb Pyre, a devout Mormon forced to question his entire faith when confronted with the savage murder of Brenda Lafferty (Daisy Edgar-Jones) and her child. Based on Jon Krakauer’s true-crime book, this series strips religion bare, showing how devotion can become salvation, or a weapon. It is as heartbreaking as it is horrifying.

20. The Residence


Murder in the White House—what could be more deliciously scandalous? ‘The Residence’ turns the world’s most famous home into a crime scene when Chief Usher A.B. Wynter collapses dead in the middle of a state dinner. Uzo Aduba’s Cordelia Cupp, eccentric and sharp as broken glass, is called in to untangle the mystery while staff scramble to hide the chaos from international dignitaries and Kylie Minogue herself. With Giancarlo Esposito, Susan Kelechi Watson, and Jane Curtin in the mix, this is murder mystery with a wicked, satirical edge.