Sentences with phrase «for police procedurals»

It seemed like I might have found a niche market, assuming there were science fiction fans hungry for police procedurals.

Others know King for her police procedurals starring Kate Martinelli (starting with A Grave Talent, 1993) set in modern - day San Francisco.

This is an okay villain for a police procedural, but for a show about a guy with radar sense it feels lacking.

Argento did for the slasher genre with his «supernatural» pictures like Suspiria and Inferno what Sergio Leone did for the Western, making them dirtier, sexier, rhythmic, and more acceptable to the literati; and he does here for the police procedural / neo-noir a similar kind of post-modern hipster reinvention.

Not exact matches

It's clear that today even the best language - parsing engines and related algorithms are no match for the old family connectivity trees built out of bright - colored Post-its tacked to the wall, or the white boards that we see every night on the tube in the police procedural shows like Law and Order.

A blast of fresh air blew into the local congressional race last week in the person of independent candidate Diane Neal of Hurley, a familiar face for constituents who watch primetime police procedurals.

Widely criticized for their depictions of police violence against residents of Rio de Janeiro's favelas, Brazilian director Jose Padilha's wildly successful Elite Squad and Elite Squad: The Enemy Within represented a fascinating diptych, an attempt to tick the boxes of the police procedural while probing rampant corruption and abuse of power.

I'm just so annoyed with both Scott and Crowe for talking shit about the original script's premise for a film told from the Sheriff of Nottingham's perspective, and how this wouldn't work because it played like a medieval police procedural.

There are gritty police procedurals, and there are the «pretty» variety, for lack of a better word that doesn't conveniently rhyme.

Believe it or not, the show — if not quite there yet — is bursting with potential, a police procedural with Hannibal Lecter at its core and assurances from the creators that the grisly nature of the eminent psychologists true culinary proclivities won't be secret for too long (though they have said that the reveal will only arrive if the show gets renewed.)

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

The predecessor to the TNT series The Closer, Major Crimes checks in for its final season on DVD that's a pretty standard Police procedural drama.

Directed by Jane Campion — known for powerful»90s film «The Piano» — this isn't your typical police procedural; it's a seriously smart mystery, with top drawer acting (it also stars Peter Mullan and Holly Hunter) and an unexpected feminist undercurrent.

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.

It is perhaps too straightforward for its own good: a well - executed police procedural but nothing really beneath the surface.

Super-producer Dick Wolf brings his police - procedural pedigree and penchant for ripped - from - the - headlines drama to a scripted adaptation of the true crime story of the Menendez brothers and the murder of their parents in 1989.

The Mysteries of Laura — which fluctuates wildly between mostly serious police procedural and slapstick family comedy — has been picked up for a full season by NBC.

This isn't an easy film, not in any way: its pace is contemplative and deliberate; it's more about puzzling out personality than it is a police procedural; and perhaps most uncomfortably for some viewers, all the major players are female.

Men with names like Tom Builder (from HBO's The Pillars of the Earth) and Dr Jacob Hood (police procedural Eleventh Hour), and Zen, the cool Italian detective from the Michael Dibdin books adapted for the BBC.

Lush Life reads like a giant, sprawling episode of your favorite fast - talking police procedural, with type breaks and metaphors standing in for jump cuts and sweeping crane - mounted pans across the city skyline.

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.

For fans of police procedurals: Read Watching the Dark, Peter Robinson's latest mystery starring Chief Inspector Alan Banks.

Do you think that its more difficult to create suspension of disbelief for an amateur sleuth in a world where we've all been exposed to «CSI» type shows and police procedurals?

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.

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.

For an exciting suspense story set in Ireland, read Tana French's In the Woods, a police procedural that takes place in Dublin.

Karin Slaughter, for example, specializes in muscular, action - packed police procedurals; Alafair Burke does expertly plotted legal mysteries; Val McDermid has invented more than her rightful share of homicidal sociopaths for her psychologist - cop team, Tony Hill and Carol Jordan, to run to ground.

So when the sale ends, I'll have six $ 3.99 ebooks ranked high on the genre bestseller lists (horror, occult, police procedural) and I expect they'll stick there for long enough for me to make up the money I've lost (for the free days, sale days, and ad costs), plus a tidy profit.

For readers who enjoy Robin Burcell and fans of police procedurals.»

NO SIMPLE ANSWERS I have been waiting for another fine suspense novel to come out of Israel since the passing of mystery author Batya Gur in 2005, and it appears my patience has been rewarded with D.A. Mishani's electrifying police procedural, The Missing File.

Those looking for a character - driven mystery with content that goes beyond the standard police procedural will find this one worth perusing, and book clubs in particular will find the novel provides many topics for discussion.

Giving MacBride one star for his work Dark Blood, he [Ellory] wrote last month: «Unfortunately this is another in the seemingly endless parade of same - old - same - old Police procedurals that seem to abound in the UK.»

An agent whose client list consists primarily of cozy mysteries and middle grade novels might not be the best candidate for your gritty, erotic police procedural.

«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.

It's an odd choice for Spooky Doorway's decidedly goofy take on a paranormal police procedural, but Prunty's score adds a layer of eldritch menace to offset the silly dialogue.

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.

The Role of Procedural Justice and Legitimacy in Shaping Public Support for Policing Jason Sunshine and Tom Tyler (2006) This study explores the relative importance of police legitimacy in shaping public support of the police and policing activities and which judgments about police activity determine people's views about the legitimacy of thePolicing Jason Sunshine and Tom Tyler (2006) This study explores the relative importance of police legitimacy in shaping public support of the police and policing activities and which judgments about police activity determine people's views about the legitimacy of thepolicing activities and which judgments about police activity determine people's views about the legitimacy of the police.

These other dimensions include respect for minority rights, reconciliation of Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal interests through negotiations, fair procedural safeguards for those subject to criminal proceedings, respect for Crown and police discretion, respect for the separation of the executive, legislative and judicial branches of government and respect for Crown property rights.

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