1. “Dissolution” by the late, great C.J. Sansom is our introduction to Matthew Shardlake: a disabled barrister with a keen legal mind, whose criminal investigations during the reign of Henry ...

His new Netflix series Dept. Q continues that lineage, adapting a series of Danish crime novels about a scrappy but talented cold-case unit, relocating the action to Edinburgh, Scotland.

Netflix's Dept. Q series is based on the Nordic noir book series of the same name by Jussi Alder-Olsen.Like the TV series, the books focus on Carl Morck, a detective who takes over the cold case ...

With Netflix series Dept Q., Matthew Goode stars as DCI Carl Morck, a curmudgeonly cop afflicted by PTSD and almost Sherlock-level powers of deduction. Based on the novels by Jussi Adler-Olsen, which ...

The Netflix legal drama is based on the award-winning book series by author Michael Connelly with series four expected to be ...

A CLASSIC detective drama series is set to be given a modern reboot, with an updated retelling. French detective series Maigret is being brought to life with a 21st century update, 65 years after i… ...

Series starter: The Thursday Murder Club For fans of: The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith Richard Osman’s first installment of this series burst onto the scene in 2020 ...

The author, who lives in Edinburgh with his wife Elizabeth Parry, is best known for his No 1 Ladies Detective Agency series, which has sold more than 25 million copies worldwide.

The detective series is an adaptation of Danish author Jussi Adler-Olsen's books of the same name, from Scott Frank who was the writer and director of The Queen's Gambit, one of Netflix's most ...

Patience. Based on the French-Belgian series Astrid et Raphaëlle, this six-part British crime drama stars A Kind of Spark’s Ella Maisy Purvis as a police archivist with autism whose talent for ...

Our heroines include a scandalous aristocrat, a wallflower thief, a lady-turned-scientist, and a duchess with a secret. The whole series (three books so far, with a fourth planned) is delightful ...

Five Best: Books From a Detective Series. Selected by Richard Osman, the author, most recently, of the novel ‘We Solve Murders. ...