detective

The first season of The Sinner, released in 2017, was a great piece of self-contained crime drama television that asked the simple question of Why, rather Who, in the case of Jessica Biel's Cora Tannetti, who seemingly, without reason,…

Often crime mysteries use real-world issues as backdrop. The detective trying to uncover a murder, for example, may stumble into a web of corporate or political corruption, a community rife with simmering misogyny and/or a hotbed of racial…

One of my favourite tropes of the golden age of television is that of the murder mystery in a small town. Although so many shows of recent memory rely upon such a plot-line – Twin Peaks, The Killing, The Fall, True Detective, Fortitude –…

Phew. It's a week as busy as the new Dan Deacon album, dear reader, so let's skip the preamble and get right to it. Stay tuned for new turns from Florence + The Machine (or whichever way they style it now), Passion Pit, Everything…

This is the fourth and penultimate chapter of this gripping serial. You can read the preceding chapters here. A faceless monster is terrorising and murdering all the vulnerable lollipop women in the city. Can John Garrison stop him? He's…