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As Moonflower Murders returns for its second installment, Susan is dwelling on her guilt in encouraging Alan Conway to use the real-life murder of Frank Parris as the inspiration for Atticus Pünd Takes the Case. She flashes back to eight years ago, meeting with him for lunch when he was
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Ridley returns for the second half of its premiere mystery for Season 2, “A Sleeping Tiger,” with the discovery of a somewhat awkward problem. DI Darren Lakhan arrested Tasha Walker after raiding her house and finding a bag of clothes belonging to her boyfriend, Liam Manley, the team’s main
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Van der Valk is back for another season, so get out your black knit sweaters, pop up the collar on your coat, and find some dreary water to contemplate murder clues. The titular detective (Marc Warren) is back in Amsterdam for Season 4 and is already getting his hands dirty
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Following her near-death in the finale of Magpie Murders, editor-turned-amateur detective Susan Ryeland (Lesley Manville) has left London for the gorgeous vistas of Crete in Moonflower Murders, where she is running a hotel with her longtime boyfriend Andreas (Alexandros Logothetis). But there’s trouble in paradise: running a hotel is
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Season 2 of Ridley is here, starring Adrian Dunbar as troubled cop Alex Ridley, whose dream of a peaceful retirement was shattered by the murders of his wife and daughter. Murder, in a sense, saved his sanity when his successor, DI Carol Farman (Bronagh Waugh), requested in Season 1 that
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Whoever it was at PBS that first noticed Walter Presents launch a stand-alone streaming service in 2018, a few months before the arrival of PBS Passport, and decided to ask curator and producer Walter Iuzzolino if he'd like to join forces and move his foreign language anthology series
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Except for 2021, Van der Valk has reliably returned to PBS every September since the beginning of the 2020s. The series, a remake of the 1970s/1990s Dutch mystery of the same name and based on the characters from the novels by Nicholas Freeling, has modernized what was a gentle
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It's been nearly 30 years since the last episodic television adaptation of Maigret was launched. However, there was a time when the titular French detective from Georges Simenon's best-selling novels was a staple of European television. From 1960 to 2005, there were no less than eight
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On paper, Ridley looks like a winning formula: take actor Adrian Dunbar, already a beloved household name in the U.K. for playing the self-righteous Irish-Catholic head of the internal corruption unit in Line of Duty, and give him his own detective show to anchor. Dunbar comes ready-made with a
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There wasn't much that went right in 2020. However, Masterpiece's decision to board the remake of All Creatures Great & Small (despite the fact the original never actually aired as part of their anthology) was one of the few decisions no one can argue with. After
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Van der Valk continues to operate as one of Masterpiece’s under-the-radar series. The reboot of the Dutch mystery series that aired in the 1970s and was revived in the 1990s has been a solid player, holding down the September slots during the pandemic years. Since 2023, it’s morphed
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Magpie Murders is the brainchild of Anthony Horowitz, the prolific writer known for television titles like Foyle’s War. This tale began as a novel (also penned by Horowitz) and is part of his Susan Ryeland Series. As much a meditation on why we love mystery stories as it is