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Merle and Daryl Dixon Forever

Mourning The Walking Dead’s Merle with Replacement Dixons?

By Crime HQ

March 31, 2013

We don't know what to do with ourselves since losing half of one of the most kick-ass love-hate teams on TV. (Check out all our recaps and provocative commentary here.)  Sure, brothers Merle and Daryl Dixon suspected, undermined, infuriated, and disappointed each other, but that's what partnership and family is all about, right? When the…

Castle and Beckett

Fall Television: What Will You Watch?

By Deborah Lacy

September 5, 2012

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?…

Adrian Monk...one distressed sleuth

Quirky Does It: TV’s Current Crop of Off-Kilter Cops (and Consultants)

By Rachel Hyland

March 30, 2012

It’s funny to think that not too many years ago, TV was filled with straight-up police procedurals. They had always been with us, of course, going back to Dragnet (generally regarded as Hollywood’s first cop show) , and on through Police Story, Hill Street Blues, NYPD Blue and of course to Law and Order and…

The cast of Monk

Dying of Laughter: The Small Screen’s Top 5

By Deborah Lacy

March 15, 2012

Some of us like our crime TV, and life, with a splash of humor.  This is the count down for the top five funniest crime shows. Some shows—like Get Smart—didn’t make the list because they were funny once upon a time, but when I went back to watch them they weren’t as funny to me…

House

Crime Fiction’s Ten Greatest Bromances

By Deborah Lacy

December 9, 2011

As a genre, mystery is famous for its loners, guys like Jack Reacher, Monk and Lucas Davenport. But mysteries are also rife with bromances, all you have to do is look. What exactly is a bromance? The term is used to describe a non-sexual relationship between two men that are unusually close. In mystery, this…

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