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Prime Suspect

Review: Good Friday by Lynda La Plante

By Janet Webb

September 8, 2017

Good Friday by Lynda La Plante is a prequel story that tells the early days of the career of Jane Tennison before the events of Prime Suspect. Welcome back, Jane Tennison! Good Friday explores the early days of Tennison’s career. In an author’s note, Lynda La Plante takes us back to the early ’70s when Londoners…

The Best Female Sleuths in Pop Culture, Part II

By Sadie Trombetta

April 1, 2016

Sleuth fans, we’re back again, and this time with an even longer list of the best women detectives, crime fighters, and amateur mystery solvers pop culture has to offer.  When we published a round-up of 13 of the best female sleuths earlier in the month, we were delighted to see what readers had to say…

Hands Off That Series, We’re British

By Colin Campbell

December 11, 2014

We’re the Sweeney son, and we haven’t had any dinner. You’ve kept us waiting. So unless you want a kickin’ you tell us where those photographs are. Detective Inspector Jack Regan knew how to make a point. If he were writing this he’d be telling you, “We’re British son, and we haven’t had our BAFTA.…

Maria Bello as Jane Timoney in Prime Suspect

Death and Destruction: Network Television’s Cancellations

By Crime HQ

May 16, 2012

We told you about CBS canceling CSI: Miami, Unforgettable and NY-22, but of course networks all like to do things at the same time, so here are the crime shows that have gone belly up on the other networks and won’t be returning. ABC: Missing and Charlie’s Angels (blogger Rachel Hyland knew that one would…

Maria Bello as Detective Jane Timoney in NBC’s Prime Suspect

Primally Bummed about Prime Suspect

By Manda Collins

September 13, 2011

On September 22, NBC will show the first episode in director Peter Berg’s “reimagined” version of the acclaimed British police procedural drama, Prime Suspect. Nothing against Peter Berg, whose directorial work I’ve enjoyed in the past. And nothing against Maria Bello, who will be playing the role of Detective Jane Timoney (formerly known as Jane…

Angelina Jolie as Evelyn Salt in the movie Salt

Today’s Female Crime-Fighters: Not Nancy Enough?

By Carrie Netzer Wajda

May 18, 2011

She’s tough. She’s violent. And mystery readers can’t seem to get enough of her. Over the past six decades, female sleuths have gone from sweet (think Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple or Nancy Drew) to tough-minded (Sue Grafton’s Kinsey Millhone, Helen Mirren in Prime Suspect) to borderline psychopathic, preternaturally talented uber-predators. Versions of the hard-as-nails woman detective…

2011 TV Pilot Season

TV Pilot Season’s Criminal Offerings

By Tara Gelsomino

May 10, 2011

Next week, network TV executives will converge on New York City to announce their new fall TV schedules. More than 80 new pilots are currently being screened and selected to join returning favorite shows, and here’s a glimpse at a few of the criminally inclined that we’re hoping to see on the boob tube come…

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