The Grantchester Mysteries is a series of cosy mystery crime fiction books of short stories by the British author James Runcie,[1] beginning during the 1950s in Grantchester, a village near Cambridge in England.The first volume in the series, Sidney Chambers and the Shadow of Death, was published in 2012.[2][3] The book comprises six short standalone mysteries.The second, Sidney Chambers and the Perils of the Night, was published in 2013.[6] Filmed on location in Grantchester, Cambridge, and London, the initial six-part series was shown in the UK in Autumn 2014.