Ozark ended three years ago, but its shadow still looms over modern crime TV. The show carved out a ruthless niche, one built on collapsing morality, crumbling families, and an escalating war between ...

A Nordic crime thriller dubbed "an absolute gem" has arrived on Amazon Prime Video. Backstrom, which ran for three seasons, follows detective Evert Bäckström, who is renowned for having solved ...

The English actor stars as DCI Carl Morck in Scott Frank's follow-up to 'The Queen's Gambit,' loosely adapted from Jussi Adler-Olson's Nordic crime noir novels.

I love a good mystery but have never delved into the true crime genre. With retirement looming and access to expensive review magazines coming to an end, I’d like to branch out and read some ...

Noir writers, by contrast, rarely lost connection with the raw edge of existence. Some noir writers were street reporters—journalists like Cain, Elliott Chaze, and Jonathan Latimer—who encountered the ...

A few favorites at the Sublett house come to mind. The Nordic noir wave has hit us hard. I can’t say how many times we watched Wallander (the Swedish miniseries on Netflix and the British ...

Killasoft has announced The Shadow Syndicate, a 1930's Brooklyn detective thriller that blends noir storytelling with stealth-action gameplay..

One of the hallmarks of noir is its dialogue—short, biting, and full of attitude. Encourage NPCs to speak in clipped, memorable lines that drip with cynicism and irony. A bartender might give ...

The phrase “film noir” often calls to mind the image of a fedora-clad sleuth investigating a perplexing crime that may or may not involve the woman he loves in a shadow-swarmed city in the ...

Perrier’s Bounty is a sharp, darkly comedic crime thriller that follows Cillian Murphy as a small-time crook on the run from a ruthless gangster.