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The Mentalist

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?…

Mary Higgins Clark and Carol Higgins Clark, both plunged into the world of mystery—and one of them was a favorite for the moms!

Mother Knows Best: Mom’s Favorite Crime Fiction

By Deborah Lacy

May 13, 2012

“Listen to your mother.”  Excellent words of advice, so today on the occasion of Mother’s Day, we are going to give some of our mothers the opportunity to make crime fiction book and TV recommendations.  Of course, it just wouldn’t be right unless I started with my own lovely and talented mother whose favorite authors…

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…

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