Sentences with phrase «police procedural set»

Two new Swedish suspense thrillers lead off this month's selections, followed by an eerie English tale of revenge and a taut police procedural set in Brazil.First up, a debut novel — Alexander Söderberg's The Andalucian Friend, a tale of cutthroat mob bosses and the extraordinary lengths to which they will go to one - up one another...

Arnaldur Indridason has a superb series of police procedurals set mostly in Reykjavik.

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Filled with questions that can only be answered by the theory that he's in an alternate reality, Tyler becomes part of a procedural police drama whose distinguishing feature is its period setting.

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

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.

The volatile culture of the setting enriches the procedural but it's the partnership of American homicide detective Sonya Cross (Diane Kruger), an obsessive, brilliant, by - the - book cop with borderline Asperger's symptoms, and Chihauhau State Police detective Marco Ruiz (Demian Bichir), a moral cop in an amoral system who latches on to this cross-jurisdictional case because it may allow him to do real police work unencumbered by corrupt bosses, that defines thePolice detective Marco Ruiz (Demian Bichir), a moral cop in an amoral system who latches on to this cross-jurisdictional case because it may allow him to do real police work unencumbered by corrupt bosses, that defines thepolice work unencumbered by corrupt bosses, that defines the show.

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

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

Never Look Back is a London - set police procedural about a stalker who is hunting young women.

There have been any number of exceptional mysteries set in southern Africa over the years, from James McClure's cracking police procedurals featuring Inspector Kramer and his Bantu assistant, Mickey Zondi, to Alexander McCall Smith's whimsical Botswana novels.

Nothing wrong with sticking with one of the originals, Mankell has a number of non-Kurt Wallander novels — this is one of them, and it's not a police procedural either, more an international thriller set in Sweden, China, America and Africa.

One United States court observed that the Convention does not «permit reviewing courts to police every procedural ruling made by the arbitrator and to set aside the award if any violation of the -LSB-...] procedures is found.

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.