Sentences with phrase «police procedural thriller»

The original film was a complex psychological drama with the trappings of a police procedural thriller; the update is a smart police procedural thriller with the trappings of a restricted psychological drama.

The movie combines a regular, old police procedural thriller with elements of that so - called «torture porn» subgenre the kids seem to like too much.

Not exact matches

The plot has the obvious trappings of a police procedural but little of the conventional execution; the film is so character - driven that it's unlikely to appeal to thriller fans (evidently the reason Warner Bros. has marketed the film so minimally, a particular surprise given its talent pedigree).

Is it the mid-film move from spectral thriller to police procedural and back?

Other episodes include a police procedural, a military thriller and «an unfolding contemporary nightmare» with no sci - fi element, according to creator Charlie Brooker, who revealed more details to Empire recently.

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

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.

The difficulties with the film spring from the misunderstanding that it somehow adheres to the conventions of a thriller or a police procedural when, in fact, The Caveman's Valentine is a superhero fable that takes on the cause of the homeless (again like McFarlane's Spawn) while attacking the entrenched ruling classes in government and the arts.

Armored Car Robbery (1950) is a superb marriage of gangster getaway thriller and police procedural with gravel - voiced Charles McGraw on the trail of the crook (future Perry Mason co-star William Tallman) who shot his partner.

Melville is quite simply France's master of crime dramas (no disrespect to Chabrol or Clouzot, who tended a bit more toward the mystery / thriller aspect anyway), and this film combines elements of crime drama, police procedural, and heist film together perfectly into an intricate slow burn building to its inevitable climax.

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.

Blending police procedural with psychological thriller, From the Cradle will have every parent checking that their children are safe in their beds... then checking again.

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.

About mysteries and crime novels of all kinds: thrillers, cozies, thrillzies, police procedurals, P.I. novels, Irish crime novels, Scandinavian crime novels, Antarctic crime novels, original e-books, short stories, nonfiction about the mystery, classic novels and graphic novels, and on and on.

The second one is my first police procedural crime thriller with the action taking place in my home country of Costa Rica.

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.

First let's look at genre fiction (thriller, mystery, fantasy, supernatural, paranormal, police procedural, horror, romance, etc.).

If that sounds like a police procedural / thriller that delivers a lot, you betcha it does.

Currently the firm publishes in categories including: history, historical fiction, police procedurals, crime thrillers, horror, steam punk, young adult, children's, current events, science, reference, art history, ANY local / regional history, humor, spiritual / metaphysical, self - help, professional, and memoirs.

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...

Lapidus joins the ranks of superb Scandinavian thrillers with «the antithesis of a police procedural.»

The stories have included «police procedurals», a serial killer hunt, a classic whodunnit with a body in the library, and thriller - style adventures.

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).

Ruth Rendell was a award winning British writer of police procedurals and psychological crime thrillers.

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 torture?

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!

Besides being a great thriller, Hunter brings together aspects from romance, mystery, police procedurals and espionage.

Currently the firm publishes in categories including: history, historical fiction, police procedurals, crime thrillers, horror, steam punk, young adult, children's, current e...

This also means deciding whether your book falls under any of the sub-genre categories, which include: general mysteries, thrillers, police procedurals, and the like.

I liked the mystery list, because it's really broad: children's, YA, cozy, classic Golden Age, British, American, noir, thrillers, spy novels, police procedurals, psychological mysteries...

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Over her eighteen - year writing career, Louise Voss has had eleven novels published — five solo and six co-written with Mark Edwards: a combination of psychological thrillers, police procedurals and contemporary fiction — and sold over 350,000 books.

Annelie Wendeberg is an award - winning author of historical and climate fiction, and has been using AMS ads on three of her books in the past few months: The Devil's Grin (Victorian mystery / thriller), Keeper of Pleas (Victorian mystery / police procedural), and 1/2986 (Climate Fiction / Hard Science Fiction).

These mysteries range from hard - hitting psychological thrillers, through to police procedurals, or the lighter adventure of a cozy mystery.

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.

French serves up an intriguing, genre - bending psychological thriller in the form of a solid police procedural.

Brash Books Brash Books publishes psychological thrillers, murder mysteries, international espionage, and police procedurals.

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.