a "very british" mystery series

[to_love_a_rose]

A while back my friend recommended to me a mystery series. I can't get in touch with her right at the moment, so I was hoping maybe you guys could help me figure out the series.

Your clues:
- The detective is a woman (I'm pretty sure she's not an official detective with the police).
- I believe they're fairly recent. They may even still be coming out with new ones.
- They're contemporary, not historical.
- It's all "very British", whatever that means.

Hopefully this can help narrow it down a little. I'm not much of a mystery fan and don't know much about the genre, so it's possible that what I've described is half the books on the market. I would like to track these down if I can, because I've been in the mood for something like this, and I trust her judgement when it comes to books. (Our book collections are so much alike it's scary.)

Any help is very much appreciated. :)

Edit: I think I found her. It was P.D. James.

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[scifisentai]

No worries. ^.^