The best crime series on TV, past and present
My selection. Includes some miniseries, too. Mostly british and scandinavian, because they're my favourites. Almost impossible to make a ranking, all of them go from excellent to very good. The newest ones and the latest watched are at the top. And ah, the ones I remembered much later...
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- CreatorHelen WalshStarsChristine TremarcoWarren BrownSonny WalkerThe violent attack on a teenage girl in a tidal islet in which group of teens from disparate backgrounds, each of whom could have committed the crime, along with their parents.
- CreatorSteven KnightStarsElisabeth MossYumna MarwanDali BenssalahFollows the relationship between two women playing a deadly game of truth and lies. One woman has a secret, and the other has a mission to reveal it before thousands of lives are lost.
- CreatorQuinn ShephardStarsLily GladstoneVritika GuptaChloe GuidryFourteen-year-old Reena Virk went to join friends at a party and never returned home. Seven teenage girls and a boy were accused of the savage murder.
- CreatorPeter A. DowlingStarsRichard ArmitageJing LusiLesley SharpLondon police officer DC Hana Li is escorting Dr Matthew Nolan back to Beijing where he has been accused of a crime. However, on board flight 357, she finds herself embroiled in an escalating conspiracy and a growing number of murders.
- CreatorSarah-Kate LynchStarsMorgana O'ReillyTess HaubrichJarod RawiriIn a quake-torn Kaikoura town, best friends' lives spiral downwards when a surrogacy pact disintegrates, revealing dark secrets and strained loyalties amid a calamitous backdrop.
- CreatorMarcia GardnerJohn RidleyStarsLeah PurcellSara WisemanLinda CropperA detective transferred to Victorian High Country investigates 5 missing persons. She uncovers a complex web of murder, deceit and revenge.
- CreatorToby WhithouseStarsAnjli MohindraJames BamfordLu CorfieldCharacter-driven mystery-thriller, combining a powerful story of a knotty police investigation with chilling, atmospheric folk-horror through the island's eerie past devotion to a pagan God called the Red King and the cult of the True Way.
- StarsKarine VanasseDavid BoutinMadeleine PéloquinFollows the human and social consequences of a tragic and unexpected event that occurs in Lac-Sabin, a small village in the Laurentians, Quebec, Canada.
- CreatorPaul RutmanStarsPeter CapaldiCush JumboAysha KalaFollows two brilliant detectives in a tug of war over a historic murder conviction and the quest to find common ground in a polarized Britain.
- StarsCatherine BérubéThomas Antony OlajideEmmanuelle Gagné NéronFollowing the death of their father, a wealthy businessman, his heirs, including his four estranged adult children, must go through a series of troubling tests in order to obtain their inheritance.
- CreatorMick FordStarsSophie RundleMatt StokoeNicholas GleavesJoanna finds an unidentified man dead in a lift in a underground car park after a devastating flood, police assumes that he became trapped as the waters rose, but she is obsessed with discovering what happened to him.
- CreatorRon NyswanerStarsMatt BomerJonathan BaileyJelani AlladinFollows the lives and volatile romance of two different men, through purges, wars, protests, and plagues, overcoming obstacles in the world.
- CreatorDavid LeonStarsKara TointonAllen LeechCharlie Hodson-PriorRachel, a single mother and cleaner, is offered a better job by a wealthy businessman. She accepts, but grows suspicious of his motives as she becomes more involved in his affairs.
- StarsDaniel Njo LobéBastien BerniniMarie ColombLéna, 28, has just joined the Communication Department of the Paris Police Headquarters as Community Manager.
- StarsVictoria GrosboisVictor PontecorvoRaphael AcloqueA young married advocate in undergoing the fact that her husband is accused of rape. She returns in her original city to help old friends. She also meets an old friend that she betrayed 15 years ago.
- StarsStephen GrahamAndrew EllisLeanne BestA journalist tries to uncover the plans of a neo-Nazi organization that has been involved in the murder of an MP.
- CreatorMathieu MissoffeStarsVincent ElbazJennifer DeckerKool ShenHe is Franck Sharko, a crabby cop at the end of his rope. She is Lucie Henebelle, a lieutenant on the anti-crime squad obsessed with evil. Sharko and Lucie investigate top-secret scientific experiments and programs.
- CreatorKristine BergArne BerggrenStarsMarie Sandø JondalJesper Hagelskær PaaschBue WandahlNora Sand is a journalist working as a foreign correspondent for a Danish newspaper. At the peak of her career she's accused of having had an affair with one of her sources in a big case. Nora gets suspended, travels home to Denmark.
- StarsPatrick HivonCatherine BrunetJean-François PichetteDetective André Surprenant investigates the murder of a teenage girl on the Madeleine Islands. He faces hostility from an investigator dispatched from Quebec City as he seeks to unravel the islanders' secrets to solve the crime.
- StarsSheridan SmithCeline BuckensBrendan CowellLori and Erin are on the holiday of a lifetime. But after a huge fight, Erin never boards their final flight and the plane never arrives at its destination. Months later, no wreckage has been found, no survivors discovered. Until now.
- StarsJulie GrahamAnnabel ScholeyJack FarthingBeth's husband Tom, a village doctor, is arrested on suspicion of being a serial killer. His wife investigates with his best friend and more evidence emerges, forcing her to question if she really knows the man she married.
- StarsLuke ArnoldBella HeathcoteJay RyanFollows investigative journalist Martin Scarsden as he has to uncover the truth of the case of killing of five parishioners by a charismatic and dedicated young priest.
- CreatorIvan KavanaghStarsIndia MullenAllen LeechAaron MonaghanCrime/ Mystery Drama series After a series of disappearances of young women, newspaper reporter Lisa Wallace (26), sets out to find the man responsible who she believes is the same man who murdered her mother almost twenty years earlier.
- StarsRobyn MalcolmPeter MullanTara CantonPenny loses everything when she accuses her husband of a sex crime against her daughter's teenage friend and no-one believes her.
- StarsRobert James-CollierJemima RooperGaynor FayeThree siblings are left reeling after the unexpected death of their father. Secrets are exploded, relationships ripped apart, and lives lost as they try desperately to claw back the inheritance that they have lost.