Here are a few more favorites to throw into the mix: -Miss Marple films with the inimitable Margaret Rutherford. AVAILABLE ON: Amazon Prime, BOSCH – A very solid, allowed-to-breathe adaptation of Michael Connelly LA classics.
), 08oct(oct 8)6:30 pm12nov(nov 12)7:30 pmVirtual Adult Jazz with Maurice JohnsonPresented by CityDance POP! Burnt out on office politics, Agatha Raisin retires early to a picturesque village in the Cotswolds and soon finds a second career as an amateur detective investigating mischief, mayhem, and murder her deceptively quaint town. The final product is Lanester, a show you’ve been waiting for if you like your crime fighters middle aged and slightly bitter. AVAILABLE ON: Instant Netflix, Amazon, and AcornTV, VERA – Brenda Blethyn stars as Vera Stanhope, a hard-as-nails detective with more emotional issues than one could humanly handle. AVAILABLE ON: HBO GO, WALLANDER – I prefer the Kenneth Branagh version to the original Scandinavian show, but you know, each to their own.
I am unable to watch #3,4 qand #5 Learn more about how we’re keeping you safe at www.kennedy-center.org/visit/patron-safety/. First season finds DI Joseph Chandler (a very handsome, completely emotionally unavailable, definitely OCD Rupert Penry-Jones) on the trail of a series of murders which resemble Jack The Ripper. Adapted from the best-selling Danish novels by Jussi Adler-Olsen, the full length films follow the twisty, turny, decidedly Scandinavian in their darkness, crimes from the first three of his cold case Department Q files: The Keeper of Lost Causes, The Absent One and A Conspiracy of Faith. Not all seasons are available, but what is there is good. Of course, Skarsgard and Walker’s easy, natural chemistry helps (the series opening scene is an acting masterclass in how to establish a rapport between the two leads), as do the smart subplots surrounding the central mystery.
Imagine Gossip Girl meets Twin Peaks and you have an idea why no matter the age, we are ALL a target audience for this. Available on: Hulu, BECK – Martin Beck is one of the most iconic Scandinavian crime solvers, and the star of a ten novel series by Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö which, many say, changed the genre completely when it was first published in the 60s.
Watch the trailer of Killing Eve I have seen may of these, but you just gave me hours of new great stuff. A perfect murder mystery to relax to before going to sweet, sweet slumber.
Foyle’s War is a British detective drama television series set during (and shortly after) the Second World War, created by Midsomer Murders screenwriter and author Anthony Horowitz and commissioned by ITV after the long-running series Inspector Morse ended in 2000. Final season is now finally available. Gently and his cocky young protege, John Bacchus (Lee Ingleby, Line of Duty), investigate brutal crimes as they confront the social and political changes of the era. It sounds hokey, but it is truly dark, wonderfully acted, and heartbreaking from a certain feminist standpoint too.
James D’Arcy (who you may remember as the prime suspect from season 2 of Broadchurch) is equally great as her psychiatrist partner. AVAILABLE ON: TBS, SHETLAND – Ann Cleeves is one of the great dames of mystery writing and the show based on her Shetland set mysteries is a great new classic. On Netflix. The show just got renewed for two more (mini) season (each is a six episode arc) so look forward to more murder and feelings in Canada. You have to see it to believe it. AVAILABLE ON: Instant Netflix, new season on Hulu, PEOPLE VS OJ SIMPSON: – Catch up on Ryan Murphy’s first true crime outing before the Assassination of Gianni Versace takes over. AVAILABLE ON: Netflix, THE MISSING – Subscribing to MhZ was a game-changer for me in the past few months because it opened up a whole world of European mysteries that were unavailable to US audiences. So glad we signed on for Acorn tv. Thank you so much for taking the time!
AVAILABLE ON: Instant Netflix, INSPECTOR MONTALBANO: The Italian mainstay chronicles the seemingly endless sequence of crime in the tiny town of Vigata, Sicily.
Vera is a middle-aged employee of the fictional Northumberland & City Police, who is obsessive about her work and driven by her own demons. After a 14-year-old girl goes missing ahead of her central role in the local Mayday pageant, forcing residents of the local community start to wonder which one of them might be responsible for her abduction. BUT IT IS WORTH ordering those DVDs from Netflix from, I promise. Everyone has their favorite episode, and mine will forever be the FAMILY one.