Sentences with phrase «good police procedural»

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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.

At times, Blood, feels like a slightly - filled - out television police procedural with better cinematography, but the performances have an almost Shakespearean grandeur.

Nerve - rattling in the best way, the sharp, visceral urban police procedural End of Watch is one of the best American cop movies I've seen in a long time.

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

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.

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

A gripping police procedural and a disquieting immersion into a twisted psyche, «The Silence of the Lambs» swept the Academy Awards (best picture, best director, best screenplay, best actress, best actor) and remains a cultural touchstone.

Well, you can't tell from «Alex Cross,» a shockingly incompetent major studio release that strands Perry in a poorly written and poorly executed police procedural.

A good, smart police procedural, set partly at Harvard University, with a homicide cop and forensic scientist (Ricardo Montalban and Bruce Bennett), trying to crack a murder with sexual overtones.

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.

If you're a police procedural / thriller fan and have not yet tried one of Alafair Burke's books, this would be a good time to start!

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.

I felt like Goldilocks - one thriller was too macho, another was too gory - only The Fallen was just right, combining well drawn characters with a solidly told police procedural.

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.

I felt a bit like Goldilocks - one thriller was too macho, another was too gory - only The Fallen was just right, combining well drawn characters with a solidly told police procedural (by which I mean that there are no great leaps of coincidence that lead to the solving of the crime, just sound, time - consuming police - work, following leads up blind allies, and back down again until the right path is explored).

The book was first released in 2010, and it's still Amazon's # 1 best - selling «police procedural» in their Mystery section.

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.

The prolific M.C. Beaton's 22nd novel in the Hamish Macbeth series is one part cozy, one part police procedural and one part psychological thriller - and really rather good!

Sukey's favorite When it comes to police procedurals, nobody does it better than Ed McBain, and nobody gives voice to McBain's street - seasoned cops better than Ron McLarty does.

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.

Jacqui Morrison's book has the right balance of police and legal procedural with a good helping of character development and social commentary thrown in.

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

Anybody that loves police procedurals written tautly, with grit and a healthy dose of noir, will love this one... her Georgia Davis series may just be one of the best crime thriller series being written today.

The police procedural is a wildly well - liked literary, tv, and movie style, however comparatively few sport builders have efficiently captured the fun of cracking a case.

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

Occasionally on police procedurals some well - meaning or otherwise bystander disturbs the absolute sanctity of a crime scene before Our Heroes ™ can perform a CSI montage.

✔ 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