CRIME TIME
e could fill up a magazine with the bestselling books that have been turned into bingeworthy crime dramas. All of those compelling characters, juicy plots and tortuous twists! But we had room for just a few of our favorites, and one new show based on the popular Tony Hillerman series.
WDark Winds (2022– )
Set in 1971 on a secluded outpost of the Navajo Nation, tribal police detectives Leaphorn and Chee (Kiowa Gordon) search for the truth in a string of seemingly unrelated crimes in this new noir thriller based on the books by Tony Hillerman. AMC+
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(2014– ) A handsome vicar (Tom Brittney) in a 1950s English village has a penchant for amateur sleuthing in the popular PBS Masterpiece adaptation of the Sidney Chambers mystery books by James Runcie—the son of a former archbishop of Canterbury. Prime Video
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(2016–18) Set in 1980s East Texas, this threeseason Sundance series based on the novels by Joe R. Lansdale follows the criminal misadventures of two best friends: Hap (James Purefoy), a white former radical and hippie, and Leonard (Michael K. Williams), a Black gay Vietnam vet. 0etƃiZ
Midsomer Murders (1997– ) What began with Caroline Graham’s book The Killings at Badger’s Drift became a 22season police drama featuring detectives Tom and later John Barnaby (John Nettles and Neil Dudgeon) solving brutal crimes in the wealthy, isolated British county of Midsomer. AcornTV
Mindhunter (2017–19) Holt McCallany and Jonathan Groff star as FBI agents who study the damaged psyches of serial killers in this thriller series adapted from the true-crime book Mindhunter: Inside the FBI’s Elite Serial Crime Unit, co-written by one of Ìije ŖÀĶ}ĶOE>Ń «ÀŖfiŃeÀÃ, ŖijOE ŖÕ}Ń>ð 0etƃiZ
Bones (2005–17) Loosely based on the novels by real-life forensic anthropologist Kathy Reichs, Bones became
Fox’s longest-running drama, with devoted fans tuning in for the crime-solving and romantic duo of Temperance “Bones” Brennan (Emily Deschanel) and FBI agent Seeley Booth
Available in bookstores and online
Rizzoli & Isles 7
(2010–16) Boston homicide detective Jane Rizzoli (Angie Harmon) and medical examiner Maura Isles (5aUha #leZanFer) may no longer grace the small screen, but the crimesolving duo is back on the page thanks to author Tess Gerritsen, whose 13th installment in the series, Listen to Me (Ballantine, July 5, $28), follows the buddy cops investigating a gruesome murder and protecting a young student from a stalker. *$1 /aZ
Longmire (2012–17) You can thank author Craig Johnson for the beleaguered Wyoming sheriff Walt Longmire (played by Robert Taylor), a throwback to those Western heroes with a strong sense of duty and no aversion to applying violence in the right places. 0etƃiZ