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...And welcome back, more broadly, to the tenebrous world of True Detective....
...They are Cush Jumbo and Peter Capaldi, who star here as an iron-willed detective and a seemingly bent copper locked in a battle of wits over a resurfaced cold case....
...One detective finds himself in a queer period romance; the others in a Blitz noir, a contemporary counter-terrorism thriller and a dystopian sci-fi....
...Tim Harford’s new book for children, ‘The Truth Detective’ (Wren & Rook), is now available Follow @FTMag to find out about our latest stories first...
...Someone who has been a frequent appearance in Ellroy’s fiction, Otash was a real-life Hollywood detective, an ex-cop and tabloid snoop said to be the model for Jack Nicholson’s Jake Gittes in Chinatown....
...These were assumptions she would invariably turn to her advantage, just as Miami detective June Hawkins, also a series consultant, did in facing down the broadly comparable misogyny of her own colleagues...
...A few miles away, a real cop happens to be unofficially reopening a cold case involving two local teens who were gruesomely murdered five years earlier....
...From the outset of this would-be mind-bender, Detective Rourke is haunted by the abduction of his young daughter....
...In a tense and atmospheric opening, two detectives from Cahokia Police Department make a grisly discovery on the roof of a public building....
...Clearly “man shoots cop” is not news in the US....
...Carney gets in touch with the one man he knows will be able to secure him a ticket: Detective Munson, the beat cop and “accomplished fixer” we met in the previous novel....
...One of the joys of Happy Valley is its quiet subversion of cop show clichés....
...This five-part series about a dirty cop trying to clean up her act doesn’t seem destined to become the broadcaster’s next unmissable gritty hit....
...And in the wake of those successes, the streamer has released an endless string of South Korean crime series, moreish variations on a cop opera theme....
...[MUSIC PLAYING] Lilah Raptopoulos Kadhim describes David McKelvey, the founder of all these companies, as a guy who just loved being a cop....
...It’s the secondary roles that are more captivating — not least Ken Watanabe’s police detective Hiroto Katagiri. Like the mythological ferryman Charon, he ferries Jake into the criminal underworld....
...To see the cop and Seo-rae in bed would be humdrum. Watching them cook together would be a knife in his wife’s heart....
...He is well supported by Tony Gardner’s pompous superintendent, Jordan Metcalfe’s bullishly stupid detective and Shane David-Joseph’s hapless constable....
...The ex-cop has hung up his gun, but Renée Ballard (Connolly’s other principal protagonist), charged with reactivating a cold case unit, tempts him out of retirement to investigate a decades-old murder....
...Another woman, currently serving as a detective constable, said she reported a colleague who abused her when they were in a relationship....
...The follow-up, Telling Lies, asked players to watch video calls between characters to untangle a twisty tale of undercover cops and secret identities....
...But the detective overseeing the case chastises his staff for turning a community’s tragedy into something “tacky”....
...Michael had been playing a game of cops and robbers with Christy since they both started out in Dublin in their twenties....
...But the two visitors were not cops, and they hadn’t come to ask questions. “They tricked my doorman,” Ganieva told an operator when she dialled 911 the next day....
...Frobisher, an excellent detective, considers himself “cursed” with an enquiring mind, yet he has the richest inner life of them all....
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