Sentences with phrase «police procedurals»

While the premise of the film sounds like something you might see on any one of the many police procedural shows on television, it has a decidedly different feel than prime time.

Are you a police officer who could write about all the things that police procedural novels normally get wrong?

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

Some authors excel at crafting compelling historical fiction, others at building, brick - by - brick, gripping mystery / police procedural plots.

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.

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

This wouldn't be a problem if the developers were capable of telling a light - hearted, fun police procedural instead, but they can't quite do that either.

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

The interactive police procedural from Silent Hill veteran Sam Barlow caused quite a splash after its launch last June, later earning several accolades including awards from GDC and BAFTA.

A German Shepherd called Inspector Rex is the star of Austrian Police procedural drama program, which won many awards, where German Shepherd Rex assists the Vienna Kriminalpolizei homicide unit.

CBS's insatiable hunger for police procedurals and TV shows based off of popular films hit another milestone today, with Variety reporting that a TV version of L.A. Confidential is currently in the works.

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.

When not scoping out the newest fiction, Jo can be found teaching professional stretching (aka Pilates) to her (mostly complying) colleagues, performing with her band, dancing, reading or watching police procedurals on Netflix.

I had no specific goals in terms of sales, and only a vague sort of understanding about things like genre — I mean, passing niggling details like police procedural or action / adventure or suspense or psychological thriller seemed silly.

Ostland by David Thomas Equal parts police procedural and courtroom thriller, this novel is based on the horrifying true story of Georg Heuser, one of the Holocaust's worst Nazi war criminals.

The same could not be said when, in 2006, Mann revisited his own first success, Miami Vice, refashioning it into a gritty, would - be realistic police procedural starring Mann loyalist Foxx and a greasy haired Colin Farell.

RB: I think there is so much uncertainty and injustice in the world, so what readers love about police procedurals is that the bad guy (or gal) never gets away with it!

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.

Fans of Rankin's Det. Insp. John Rebus will be disappointed by this so - so police procedural, his second stand - alone since Rebus «retired» (after Doors Open).

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.

In practice, prosecutors are a much bigger check on weak prosecutions suggested by law enforcement than either grand juries or preliminary hearings, but this isn't widely known as these interactions are nearly invisible to the public and often aren't mentioned in police procedural crime dramas.

Now, despite my being somewhat disappointed at that crucial point in the plot, I SEE YOU is still a very good police procedural mystery (with a shocking twist) that the reader just «might» see coming... or not, but (for me) it was just missing that «big wallop» you find in I LET YOU GO

It's like death - by - Rube - Goldberg - device set against the backdrop of a gritty police procedural drama.

In a cleverly told police procedural with a time - travel twist, Kemp pays for his hotel and meals by betting on horses he recalls as winners, and tries to help his younger self to thwart the murders he knows will soon occur.

Detective Trousers In The Beat Goes On is an animated police procedural featuring animal detectives.

Excellent Murder Mystery + Police Procedural $ 1 Deal!

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...

This first spin - off of L&O is more police procedural than lawyer - driven drama, but was still a favorite of our judges.

We have our typical police procedural as Detective Halloran (Callum Keith Rennie) attempts to piece together the impossible puzzle.

Now the Cape Town crime writer returns with Dead Before Dying, a gripping police procedural centered on a serial murder case in which the common denominator is that there is no common denominator.

The interactive police procedural from Silent Hill veteran Sam Barlow caused quite a splash after its...

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.

An opening scene in which Cross literally dodges a bullet a second or more after it's fired kind of sums up the action trajectory, which eventually devolves from bad police procedural into a bad «Dirty Harry» copycat.

So he created a new name and wrote police procedural novels for decades under the name Ed McBain.

The Whites by Richard Price, writing as Harry Brandt Price's take on the classic police procedural crime novel is set in his signature stark, gritty urban landscape, filled with fully imagined characters with pasts and passions that resonate in the present.

An Excellent Detective Thriller + Police Procedural $ 1 Deal!

Fossum leverages her series above the pack of conventional police procedurals by, firstly, taking us deep into the minds of her troubled characters, and secondly, by causing us to ask ourselves difficult questions - such as how society as a whole views those who don't fit the norm - without feeling the need to provide us with answers, easy or otherwise.

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

The difference, I think, from other police procedurals, is my detective is a railroad cop.

The film plays like a Michael Mann police procedural action version of Ridley Scott's The Counselor, and you have no idea how hard that hits my sweet spot.

This month's Whodunit column highlights a nightmarish thriller from Mo Hayder, Peter Robinson's finest police procedural and more.

• The excellent police procedurals about the Dublin Murder Squad by Tana French.

They conclude that the author of the series, J. Mark Bertrand,» is a major crime - fiction talent — one of the best police procedural writers I've come upon in years.»

Police procedurals make policemen into heroes, (and I don't mean real policemen aren't heroic, I mean, heroes like in comic books) and that means the structure and the required beats are much like a super hero story, melded with a mystery.

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.