Sentences with phrase «as police procedural»

Set in Baltimore — the «murder capital,» as many a character notes — the show begins as a police procedural following a group of detectives hoping to bust one of the biggest drug kingpins in the city.

The story kicks off as a police procedural, tracking Nick and his partner as they try to bust a gang smuggling drugs, before heading into standard dirty cop territory.

Award - winning Tana French's novel works perfectly fine as a police procedural, but it's much more than that: the depth of characteris - ation, authentic dialogue, under - standing of human behaviour and sense of inner - city place are as good as you'll find in any novel of any genre.

Released just in time for Easter, Risen retells the resurrection as police procedural, with Roman army tribune Clavius (a miserable - looking Joseph Fiennes) having been tasked to track down the missing body of Christ.

Not exact matches

Troopers don't receive the same rigorous training in implicit bias, urban policing and procedural justice as Albany police, she said.

Of the other top films in the Competition, two invoked driving as a primary motif: Nuri Bilge Ceylan's Grand Jury Prize co-winner Once Upon a Time in Anatolia, an intoxicatingly strange, oblique police procedural in which a caravan of cops spend a very long night winding through the Turkish countryside in search of a dead man's grave; and Nicolas Winding Refn's Drive, a needle drop deep into the groove of a Walter Hill / William Friedkin / Michael Mann neo-noir, starring a terse Ryan Gosling as an unnamed Hollywood stuntman who moonlights as a getaway driver.

Starring Alan Cumming, the police procedural will be the first major network crime drama to have a gay man as its leading character.

Expanding the duo's 2001 short film «Music for One Apartment and Six Drummers», the story lightly spoofs police procedurals as it... Continue reading →

As the lines between good and evil become blurred, the film pushes the concept of revenge to its most extreme limits, effectively transcending the police procedural and serial killer genres in surprising and thrilling new ways.

«Kojak» Another police procedural bound to be rebooted, Telly Savalas starred as the chrome - domed detective in the 1970's series.

«The Third Murder,» a rare foray into police - procedural territory from the great Japanese director Hirokazu Kore - eda, struck me as an equally rare disappointment, measured and meditative to a fault.

This is a very meditative police procedural that spends as much time exploring its setting as it does the characters.

It is also as gripping as any procedural crime thriller, and cops and police doctors do play a role.

T - Men — This fairly early Anthony Mann film is more of a police procedural, than a noir, as it tells the story of the Treasury Department's anti-counterfeiting detectives in a pseudo-documentary style.

Although Mirielle Enos» talents are wasted — she anchors a police procedural on television, but this Hollywood movie is content to cast her as a standard - issue Dutiful Wife — there are some dandy cameos and supporting turns.

Maybe none of this narrative murkiness matters, as perhaps Secret is more psychological drama than police procedural.

This could have been a crime thriller or a police procedural, but Eastwood turns it toward almost Shakespearean tragedy, as each man's character plays out in his fate.

There's a potentially engaging jurisdictional triangle at the heart of his story, but it's largely obscured by what amounts to mediocre amalgam of a basic, post-CSI procedural and a serial killer B movie, in which a devilish antagonist does things like phone the police to taunt them as he's snuffing his latest victim.

The film's only decent male figure is Harvey Keitel's Hal Slocumb, the compassionate Arkansas cop who's hot on the duo's trail, but — as befitting a story that presents testosterone as a dangerous enemy of female independence — he's barely heard from except during police procedural sequences in which he interviews suspects, taps phone lines, and argues with superiors in an unconvincing Southern accent.

Not simply a chronicle of an investigation, Evil Genius also doubles as a psychological portrait of those with unfulfilled «potential,» and director Barbara Schroeder expertly weaves the police procedural aspects with creepy yet touching personal stories.

Both her female detective and FBI profiler series have been praised by those in law enforcement as being accurate and entertaining, leading her to adopt the trademark: POLICE PROCEDURALS RESPECTED BY LAW ENFORCEMENT ™.

For example, The Accusers is probably best described as a courtroom thriller but other books in the series have been written in the style of police procedurals, classic whodunnits and thriller - style adventures.

Edited by the legendary Gary Fisketjon (who has worked with Raymond Carver, Cormac McCarthy, Donna Tartt and many others), Mr. Peanut is part marital drama and part police procedural, and as the opening paragraph demonstrates, it will hook you from page one.

As a bonus, we have Rebecca Senese's ten - story science fiction collection Tales of Possibilities; Thomas K. Carpenter's Revolutionary Magic, a historical fantasy and the first in the Dashkova Memoirs; Annie Reed's A Death in Cumberland, a moody police procedural; Nebula Award finalist Cat Rambo's Neither Here Nor There, a double collection of alt - world and real world fantasy stories; and last but not least, USA Today bestselling author Dean Wesley Smith's The Slots of Saturn, the origin story for his fan - favorite superhero Poker Boy.

On just about every police procedural, you can tell who the main guy is without watching the show, because the casting is a spoiler: just take a look at who is being featured as the «guest» star for that episode.

TIM STEVENS: As a young adult, I loved the police procedurals of Ed McBain and John Sandford, who's still going strong with his Lucas Davenport series of crime thrillers.

For fans of police procedurals: Cop Town by Karin Slaughter Best - selling author Karin Slaughter once again grants women their rightful place at murder scenes and morgues, as two female cops smash major barriers inside Atlanta's police force in this new standalone.

Münster's Case is sure to be a hit with fans of Scandinavian suspense, as well as those who enjoy a first - rate police procedural.

Favorite nonfiction genres include memoirs, biography, and autobiography, while in fiction she particularly enjoys work on mysteries, police procedurals, suspense, and thrillers, and has completed ghostwriting assignments as well.

As a writer of suspense / thrillers with quite a lot of police procedurals, I was bound to come across this kind of question within myself — should I, or should I not, include details of killings such as gory scenes, or torturAs a writer of suspense / thrillers with quite a lot of police procedurals, I was bound to come across this kind of question within myself — should I, or should I not, include details of killings such as gory scenes, or torturas gory scenes, or torture?

Those should give our customs department some thought, as there are books on Forensics, Police Procedurals and How to kill somebody with poison.

As I write this, «Claw Back» is No. 95 on the police procedural bestseller list.

This led to me reconstructing a half - finished sequel to the first novel as an 80K fast - paced police procedural series.

«The latest Commissario Guido Brunetti Venetian police procedural is a super whodunit... Brunetti and Vianello are marvelous as they piece together clues mostly using old fashion shoe leather but also ably supported by the IT gurus Signorina Elettra and Pucetti.»

But it's the living, bleeding humanity of the characters that makes Donna Leon's police procedurals so engaging... In his sensitive dealings with the victims of crime, Brunetti proves as much a psychologist and social worker as a cop... Tagging along after this sleuth is a wonderful way to see Venice like a native.»

«If you like your police procedurals intriguing, solid and well - written, Lovesey's your man — just as he's been for dad and grandad.»

So, fans of police procedurals may be as excited as I was to read on Ed Goreman's blog that Hard Case Crime will be publishing two lost novels by Ed McBain, both of which have been unavailable for over 50 years.

Considering the enduring popularity of police procedurals and legal dramas in popular culture, the formula behind Capcom's Ace Attorney might read like a sure - fire money - maker — a game where you play as a rookie defense attorney named Phoenix Wright who shields his obviously innocent clients from the wrath of increasingly aggressive prosecutors by pointing out the holes in the state's case, inevitably producing the real culprit just in the nick of time.

As the overabundance of police procedurals and supernatural - themed teen lit have demonstrated in the West, a single success can spur an upsurge of copycats.

Intended for more casual audiences, the game promises a short romp through a police procedural drama, as you help out in the hunt for The Trapper, a serial killer with a snappy name and a penchant for convulted murder methods.

There are numerous procedural requirements on statements obtained by the police, such as the famous case of Miranda v. Arizona which requires police to inform a person in custody of their relevant rights.

There are procedural limits as well, because search warrants must be based on probable cause and police do not have unlimited powers.

As the majority explained, if Mr. Penner knew that the police disciplinary proceedings were his only shot at administrative justice, he would presumably have insisted on all of his procedural rights (see paras. 62 - 63).

After comparing procedural fairness to other factors such as the police performance and the distribution of police services, they conclude that «the key antecedent of legitimacy is the fairness of the procedures used by the police.»

The result is very entertaining, inflammatory, and doubtless sells newspapers but does serious violence to the administration of justice and the presumption of innocence — two principles Ms. Blatchford has shown general disdain for on numerous prior occasions (unless the accused happens to be a police officer in which case she becomes a born - again believer in the Charter and all its myriad procedural rights heretofore known as «technicalities»).

✔ Implemented an inventory based innovative system of apprehending and questioning suspects, which was later adopted by other police departments as well ✔ Issued the first written manual of procedural recommendations for facilitation of newly hired personnel ✔ Participated in 3 large scale nationwide crime awareness and citizen self protection campaigns