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Absentia (TV series)
Absentia is an American psychological crime thriller series (2017–2020, Amazon Prime Video), created by Gaia Violo and Matthew Cirulnick, starring Stana Katic as FBI agent Emily Byrne, declared dead in absentia and found alive six years later; three seasons, 30 episodes, later a Netflix top-10 hit.
Adolescence (TV series)
Adolescence is a 2025 Netflix four-part British limited crime drama by Stephen Graham, Jack Thorne, and Philip Barantini, each episode one continuous take, about 13-year-old Jamie Miller's murder arrest; 8 Emmys, 4 Golden Globes, Peabody, 142.6M views.
Allegiance (Canadian TV series)
Allegiance is a Canadian CBC police procedural drama created by Anar Ali, premiering February 7, 2024. It stars Supinder Wraich as rookie officer Sabrina Sohal in Surrey, BC, whose father, the Minister of Public Safety, is arrested on terror charges.
American Rust (TV series)
American Rust is a crime drama adapted from Philipp Meyer's 2009 novel, created by Dan Futterman, starring Jeff Daniels as police chief Del Harris in the fictional Pennsylvania Rust Belt town of Buell. Season 1 aired on Showtime in 2021; the revived season 2, Broken Justice, streamed on Prime Video in 2024.
An t-Eilean
An t-Eilean (The Island) is a Scottish Gaelic-language BBC ALBA crime drama, the UK's first high-end Gaelic series, costing over £1m per episode, set on Lewis and Harris, winner of the Prix CIRCOM 2025 Grand Prix, with a second series in production.
Arctic Circle (2018 TV series)
Arctic Circle (Finnish: Ivalo) is a Finnish-German crime drama thriller series (2018-) by Yellow Film & TV and Bavaria Fiction, starring Iina Kuustonen as officer Nina Kautsalo, premiering on Elisa Viihde December 21, 2018; five seasons, 6.5 million euro budget, filmed in Finnish Lapland.
Babylon Berlin
Babylon Berlin, German period crime drama by Tom Tykwer, Achim von Borries, and Hendrik Handloegten based on Volker Kutscher's Gereon Rath novels; five seasons, 48 episodes, set 1929–1933 Weimar Berlin, starring Volker Bruch and Liv Lisa Fries; final season released September 2026.
Bäckström (Swedish TV series)
Bäckström is a Swedish crime drama (2020–2024) based on Leif GW Persson's Evert Bäckström novels, starring Kjell Bergqvist; three six-episode seasons on C More/TV4, distinct from the US series Backstrom.
Balthazar
Balthazar is a French TF1 crime thriller (2018–2023, 5 seasons, 38 episodes) created by Clélia Constantine and Clothilde Jamin, starring Tomer Sisley as eccentric forensic pathologist Raphaël Balthazar and Hélène de Fougerolles as Commander Hélène Bach.
Battle Creek (TV series)
Battle Creek is a 2015 CBS police comedy-drama created by Vince Gilligan and David Shore, starring Josh Duhamel and Dean Winters as mismatched FBI and local lawmen in Battle Creek, Michigan; 13 episodes, canceled after one season.
Billions (TV series)
Billions is a Showtime drama (2016–2023, 7 seasons, 84 episodes) created by Koppelman, Levien, and Sorkin, starring Paul Giamatti and Damian Lewis as a U.S. Attorney and hedge fund manager; loosely inspired by Preet Bharara, ending in 2023 with spin-offs announced.
Black Snow
Black Snow is an Australian Stan crime mystery series (premiered 1 January 2023) in which Travis Fimmel's cold-case detective James Cormack investigates the 1994 murder of Isabel Baker in a North Queensland town, centered on its Australian South Sea Islander community; seasons 2 and 3 followed.
Bodkin
Bodkin is a 2024 Netflix darkly comedic thriller, seven episodes, created by Jez Scharf and produced by the Obamas' Higher Ground, starring Will Forte, Siobhán Cullen, and Robyn Cara as podcasters probing disappearances in a fictional West Cork town.
Bookish (TV series)
Bookish is a six-part British period detective drama created by and starring Mark Gatiss as 1946 London bookseller-detective Gabriel Book, airing on U&alibi (2025) and PBS (2026), with a second series commissioned.
Codename: Annika
Codename: Annika (Koodinimi: Annika) is a 2023 Finnish-Swedish SkyShowtime Nordic noir series, not the UK show Annika. Detective Emma Haka goes undercover as Annika Stormare in Stockholm's art world against launderer Blanko; six episodes, directed by AJ Annila.
Criminal Record (2024 TV series)
Criminal Record is a British Apple TV+ crime thriller created by Paul Rutman, starring Peter Capaldi as DCI Daniel Hegarty and Cush Jumbo as DS June Lenker; season 1 premiered January 10, 2024, and season 2 on April 22, 2026.
Criminal: France
Criminal: France is the 2019 French-language installment of Netflix's Criminal interrogation-room anthology, three episodes (Émilie, Caroline, Jérôme) directed by Frédéric Mermoud, created by George Kay and Jim Field Smith, starring Margot Bancilhon with guests Nathalie Baye, Jérémie Renier, and Sara Giraudeau.
Criminal: Germany
Criminal: Germany (Criminal: Deutschland) is the 2019 German chapter of Netflix's Criminal interrogation-room anthology: three roughly 45-minute episodes (Jochen, Yilmaz, Claudia) directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel, starring Eva Meckbach, Sylvester Groth, and Florence Kasumba, released 20 September 2019.
Darby and Joan
Darby and Joan (Darby & Joan) is an Australian Acorn TV mystery drama (2022–) starring Bryan Brown and Greta Scacchi as ex-cop Jack Darby and widowed English nurse Joan Kirkhope, who solve outback mysteries across Queensland; two series, 14 episodes.
Dear Child
Dear Child (Liebes Kind) is a 2023 six-episode German Netflix psychological thriller miniseries based on Romy Hausmann's 2019 novel, directed by Isabel Kleefeld and Julian Pörksen, starring Kim Riedle, and winner of the 2024 International Emmy for TV Movie/Mini-Series.
Dogs of Berlin
Dogs of Berlin is a 2018 German Netflix crime thriller, the second German Netflix original after Dark, created by Christian Alvart: ten episodes about two mismatched detectives investigating the murder of a fictional German-Turkish football star.
Ellis (TV series)
Ellis, also Inspector Ellis, is a 2024 British crime drama starring Sharon D Clarke as DCI Ellis, who takes over failing murder investigations across northern England with DS Harper (Andrew Gower); three series-1 films plus a 2026 four-episode series 2 on Channel 5 and Acorn TV.
Fallen (2023 TV series)
Fallen (Sanningen) is a Swedish crime drama created by Camilla Ahlgren, starring Sofia Helin as cold-case chief Iris Broman in Malmö; premiered on TV4 Play 25 December 2023, with two seasons and a third confirmed.
Happy Valley (TV series)
Happy Valley is a BBC crime drama (2014-2023) written and partly directed by Sally Wainwright, starring Sarah Lancashire as West Yorkshire sergeant Catherine Cawood pursuing Tommy Lee Royce; it won BAFTAs for its first two series.
Harry Wild
Harry Wild is an Irish Acorn TV comedy-mystery series (2022–) starring Jane Seymour as retired professor Harriet Wild, a Dublin amateur detective with sidekick Fergus; created by David Logan, five seasons plus a 2025 special.
High Country (TV series)
High Country is an Australian mystery drama series created by Marcia Gardner and John Ridley for Foxtel/Binge, starring Leah Purcell as Detective Andie Whitford investigating five missing persons in the Victorian High Country; season 1 aired 2024, season 2 (What Lies Beneath) premiered 14 September 2026.
In Plain Sight
In Plain Sight: USA Network crime drama (2008–2012), created by David Maples, starring Mary McCormack as U.S. Marshal Mary Shannon of the witness protection program in New Mexico; five seasons, canceled August 2011 despite 4.9 million average viewers. Distinguished from the 2021 Coulthart UFO book and other same-title works.
Interrogation (2020 TV series)
Interrogation is a 2020 American non-linear true-crime drama on CBS All Access, created by John Mankiewicz and Anders Weidemann, based on the Bruce Lisker case; its 10 episodes can be watched in any order except first and last.
Irish Blood
Irish Blood is a 2025 Acorn TV crime drama starring Alicia Silverstone as L.A. lawyer Fiona Fox, who travels to Ireland after a message from her estranged father Declan. Six episodes; renewed; season 2 filmed in Dublin.
Jana: Marked for Life
Jana: Marked for Life (Jana – Märkta för livet) is a 2024 Swedish six-part Nordic noir thriller on Viaplay and Prime Video, adapted from Emelie Schepp's Jana Berzelius novels, starring Madeleine Martin as a prosecutor and former child soldier.