Sentences with phrase «latest police thriller»

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Quentin Tarantino's favourite film of 2013, Big Bad Wolves is an Israeli comedy - thriller about a series of brutal murders and the three men whose lives are on a collision course as a result: the father of the latest victim now out for revenge, a vigilante police detective operating outside the boundaries of law, and the main suspect in the killings - a religious studies teacher who was arrested and then released due to a police blunder....

FROM HELL (Grade: B --RRB-: It's never hugely suspenseful and not much of a slasher thriller, but this latest movie evocation of the Jack the Ripper myth — starring Johnny Depp as a psychic London police inspector on the trail — is morbidly fascinating and sumptuously atmospheric.

Carr's first novel was a surprise best - seller when it was published in 1994, but savvy trendspotters should have recognized all the ingredients that sometimes launch a literary thriller into the limelight: a mainstream crime - fiction plot (cops and shrinks track psycho killer) overlayed with some vivid history (late - nineteenth - century New York), and a famous hero (Teddy Roosevelt as the city's police chief).

In this latest atmospheric thriller, Kurt Wallander and his daughter Linda, just graduated from the police academy, join forces to search for a religious fanatic on a murder spree and soon find themselves forced to confront a group of extremists bent on punishing the world's sinners.