Ever since CSI: Crime Scene Investigation premiered on October 6, 2000, forensics has played a huge role in police procedurals and crime shows. The success of the original CSI has led to three different spin-off series, each focusing heavily on the importance of the collection of evidence and scientific analysis of crime scenes in solving…
Every mystery lover knows that the theme music for a TV series helps to sets the mood for the viewer. A solid theme song certainly plays an important role in the success of any series. The musical intro adds to the show, evoking a sense of expectation. The right music places you in the specific…
After the detectives have gone and CSI gets done picking dandruff out of the shag carpet; after the police barrier tape comes down…then what? Someone’s gotta clean up the mess. The crime-scene cleaning industry is probably the only part of the crime world that hasn’t been explored/exploited onscreen (Amy Adams’s Sunshine Cleaning doesn’t really count).…
Blonde Ops by Charlotte Bennardo and Natalie Zaman is a Young Adult, tech-savvy romp through Rome where Bec must juggle her job at a fashion magazine, a potential threat to the First Lady, and of course, boys (available May 6, 2014). Teenage hacker Bec Jackson has been kicked out of her latest boarding school after…
Back to school means the return of many of our favorite TV shows. Major Crimes, Copper, and Grimm have already started, and we’ll have to wait until 2013 for BBC’s Sherlock, but plenty more premieres await in the golden months ahead. Will Castle and Beckett’s relationship grow or disintegrate as a result of their tryst?…
The world is in love with methods of forensic crime detection. We have been entranced by CSI (the original) and every spin-off it has produced. Abby Sciuto and her mass spectrometer add immeasurably to the strength of the Navy-based NCIS series, not to mention the ubiquitous Dr. Donald “Ducky” Mallard and his scalpel and keen…
Can you stand to see Gil Grissom go bad? Willam Petersen is set to executive-produce and star in his first TV series since leaving CSI in 2009. According to TV Guide, in the new series Hurt People: Petersen will play Hollis Brown, a longtime hitman employed by the crime family that killed his wife. Brown…
Tonight marks the end of Marg Helgenberger’s twelve-year run as Catherine Willows on CSI. The cast has changed before, with the loss of Gil Grissom (William Petersen) and Warrick Brown (Gary Dourdan) and the addition of new team members, but it’s arguable that Catherine has been the center of the cast since the beginning, even…
As a huge fan of mysteries and thrillers, I am allowed to make fun of them. Just as as a blond Swede, it’s perfectly legal for me to tell blond or Swedish jokes. NO ONE WILL ARREST ME. Mysteries always involve a murder and somebody trying to solve the case. Action mysteries pump up the…
We’ve all seen this one, or read it. Detective assigned to the case visits the crime scene after forensics and photographers and search teams have conducted their examination of the location. He wanders around soaking up the atmosphere and getting his head around the evidence. Then something catches his eye. A glint or a twinkle…
