Sentences with phrase «so police procedural»

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).

So his police procedural came partly from his own memories of Houston...

So Police procedurals are weird ducks.

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).

I'm just so annoyed with both Scott and Crowe for talking shit about the original script's premise for a film told from the Sheriff of Nottingham's perspective, and how this wouldn't work because it played like a medieval police procedural.

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.

I have written a series of mystery novels that seem to be somewhere between cozy mystery and police procedural, but I don't follow strict procedure so I tend to call my stories cozy mysteries.

Haven't read this one yet, but since police procedurals are one of my guilty pleasures I may need to find time to do so...

So when the sale ends, I'll have six $ 3.99 ebooks ranked high on the genre bestseller lists (horror, occult, police procedural) and I expect they'll stick there for long enough for me to make up the money I've lost (for the free days, sale days, and ad costs), plus a tidy profit.

But it's the living, bleeding humanity of the characters that makes Donna Leon's police procedurals so engaging... In his sensitive dealings with the victims of crime, Brunetti proves as much a psychologist and social worker as a cop... Tagging along after this sleuth is a wonderful way to see Venice like a native.»

So, fans of police procedurals may be as excited as I was to read on Ed Goreman's blog that Hard Case Crime will be publishing two lost novels by Ed McBain, both of which have been unavailable for over 50 years.