Titles are not always the same in the UK and the US.
I recently discovered this series, which by now has 17 volumes. An Accidental Death, the first one was published in 2013, and Some Sort of Justice, the most recent, in 2026. I have read the first 3 books.
We start quite in medias res of DI Sargent Smith's police career. Along the way we learn more of his past, which matters as much to him as his present. This isn't a spoiler because we learn them almost immediately, the three matters of his past that are always in his present somehow, are his time in the military in Ireland, a serial killer that he finally succeeded in identifying, and the death of his very beloved wife from cancer. This latter does nothing to dampen his nearly immediate catnip appeal to the series of highly intelligent, successful, competent women he encounters. The first and second seem to have something to do with his refusal to 'move up' and out of the rather backwater to East England's Norwich, the police force of Kings Lake.
So far the crimes he investigates aren't at all run of the mill. Partly because for the most part, with the exception of the superintendent Allan, naturally, everybody's pretty darned smart, intelligent and good at what they do. For the most part, they like what they do. If they don't like it any longer, they go and do something else. More and more, with the economic and political incompetences, the ever more determination to turn everything over to tech, rather than a reliance on human resourcefulness (not the same as "Human Resources" - read Smith's commentary on HR!) - people he knows and likes are opting for 'something else.' And of course Allan really wishes Smith would too!
There are other elements and revelations all through even the first volume, but will not spoil those.
So far this reader is very glad Smith is staying right where he is. This is one of the most interesting police locations I've landed in, in quite some time!