There never seems to be a shortage of good crime shows on TV, and network television is teeming with detectives who think -- and act -- differently. As a scholar of popular culture, I've long been ...

The prolific and multi-talented Anthony Horowitz is back with a very readable third novel featuring the full-time professional editor and part-time amateur sleuth Susan Ryeland and the legendary ...

It was a pleasure becoming reacquainted with “Magpie Murders” over the last three Sunday nights on PBS. Each evening featured two episodes of the six-episode series as a lead-up to the premiere next ...

Adapted from Jo Nesbo's Norwegian thriller Harry Hole novels, Netflix's urban crime series “Detective Hole” is quite an ...

The "gripping" new detective drama Under Salt Marsh has been given a first look. The series stars Yellowstone's Kelly Reilly and takes place in a fictional Welsh town called Morfa Halen, where the ...

Do great recurring characters in mystery novels you love become old friends? You learn so much about their strange quirks and their haunted pasts and root for them every time they face danger. In his ...

On the screen and on the page, today we are accustomed to seeing fictional representations of women detectives kicking in doors, taking down names and sleuthing out villains. From Olivia Benson ...

You know how the story goes: A ruggedly handsome, lone wolf detective meets a beautiful yet mysterious damsel in distress. In between one-handed push-ups, whisky shots and defusing bombs over his ...