These are mysteries set beyond the usual locales in Great Britain and the United States. Where the Fairfax County Public Library does not own the first in the series, the first volume that we do own is indicated.

Australia

Jon Cleary
Scobie Malone series featuring a Sydney police inspector
First book High Commissioner

Belgium

Nicolas Freeling
Henri Castang series featuring a Brussels policeman
First book Dressing of Diamond

Botswana

Alexander McCall Smith
Precious Ramotswe series featuring Botswana’s answer to Miss Marple
First book No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency

China

Lisa See
Hulan Liu and David Stark series featuring a female detective in Beijing
First book Flower Net – cataloged under fiction instead of mystery

Christopher West
Wang Anzhuang series featuring a Beijing police inspector
First book Death of a Blue Lantern

Egypt

Michael Pearce
Mamur Zapt series featuring Garth Owen as a police inspector during the British occupation of Cairo
First book Mamur Zapt and the Return of the Carpet

Lynda Robinson
Lord Meren series featuring the chief investigator for Tutankhamen
First book Murder in the Place of Anubis

Lauren Haney
Lieutenant Bak series featuring a police detective in the 18th dynasty BC
First book Right Hand of Amon

Elizabeth Peters
Amelia Peabody series featuring an Egyptologist and archaeologist
First book Crocodile on the Sandbank

France

Michael Bond
Messr. Pamplemousse and Pommes Frites series featuring an undercover food critic and his bloodhound
First book Monsieur Pamplemousse

J. Robert Janes
Jean-Louis St.Cyr and Hermann Kohler series featuring a Paris police detective and a Nazi officer collaborating during the WWII occupation
First book Mayhem

Sharan Newman
Catherine Le Vendeur series featuring a former novice and her husband in the 12th century
First book Death Comes as Epiphany

Cara Black
Aimee Leduc series featuring a private investigator in Paris
First book Death in the Marais

Georges Simenon
Jules Maigret series featuring a police inspector in Paris – probably the grand daddy of them all
First book Maigret on the Riviera

Germany

Elizabeth Peters
Vicky Bliss series featuring an art historian
First book Borrower of the Night

Hong Kong

William Marshall
Yellowthread Street series featuring Harry Feiffer as a chief inspector
First book Yellowthread Street

India

H.R.F. Keating
Ganesh Ghote series featuring a police inspector in Bombay
Third book Inspector Ghote Caught in Meshes

Paul Mann
George Sansi series featuring a lawyer in Bombay
First book Season of the Monsoon cataloged as fiction instead of mystery

Israel

Robert Rosenberg
Avram Cohen series featuring an ex-police officer in Jerusalem
First book Crimes of the City

Batya Gur
Michael Ohayon series featuring a policeman in Jerusalem
First book Saturday Morning Murder

Italy

Magdalen Nabb
Marshal Salvatore Guarnaccia series featuring a police office in Florence
Second book Death of a Dutchman

Lindsey Davis
Marcus Didius Falco series featuring a private investigator in ancient Rome
First book Silver Pigs

Elizabeth Eyre
Sigismundo series featuring a courtier in the 15 century
Second book Curtains for the Cardinal

Donna Leon
Guido Brunetti series featuring a policeman in Venice
First book Death at La Fenice

Michael Dibdin
Aurelio Zen series featuring a police inspector in Rome
First book Ratking

Steven Saylor
Gordianus the Finder series featuring a Roman private investigator circa 56 BC
First book Roman Blood

Edward Sklepowich
Urbino Macintyre series featuring an American author in Venice
First book Death in a Serene City

Japan

James Melville
Tetsuo Otani series featuring a Kobe police superintendent
Second book Chrysanthemum Chain

Laura Joh Rowland
Sano Ichira series featuring a 17th century courtier
First book Shinju

Sujata Massey
Rei Shimura series featuring a Tokyo antique dealer
First book Salaryman’s Wife

Kenya

Karin McQuillan
Jazz Jasper series featuring an animal rights activist and safari
company owner
First book Deadly Safari

Mexico

Paco Taibo
Hector Belascoaran Shayne series featuring a half Basque, half Irish Mexico City Private investigator
Third book Some Clouds

Gary Alexander
Luis Balam series featuring a Yucatan Maya private investigator
First book Blood Sacrifice

Netherlands

Janwillem Van de Wetering
Henk Grijpstra and Rims de Gier series featuring Amsterdam policemen who later become private eyes
First book Outsider in Amsterdam

Russia

Stuart Kaminsky
Porfiry Petrovich Rostnikov series featuring a Moscow policeman
First book Death of a Dissident

Martin Cruz Smith
Arkady Renko series again featuring a Moscow policeman
First book Gorky Park cataloged as fiction instead of mystery

Sicily

Andrea Camilleri
Salvo Montalbano series featuring a police inspector
First book Shape of Water

Spain

Roderic Jeffries
Enrique Alvaraex series featuring a Mallorcan policeman
Third book Troubled Water

Caroline Roe
Isaac of Girona series featuring a blind Jewish physician
First book Remedy for Treason

Sweden

Maj and Lindstrom Sjowall
Martin Beck series featuring a Stockholm policeman
First book Roseanna

Henning Mankell
Kurt Wallander series featuring a rural policeman
First book Faceless Killers