police procedural
police crime drama

I knew there was a reason why I read all those police procedurals.

Law enforcement jargon is heavily used in police procedurals and similar shows.

Whoever did what, this is one of the best police procedurals you're likely to read this season.

Police procedurals have often both reflected and predicted our criminal justice sensibilities.

Films in this category range from police procedurals to gothic horror.

Police procedurals have always been popular on television.

She gave them an alternative to Westerns and hard-boiled police procedurals.

Michael Pearce (1933) is an award-winning author of historical fiction and police procedurals.

Parker's books are police procedurals set in Southern California.

Unlike standard police procedurals, the show drew heavily upon 1980s New Wave culture and music.

The stories are largely police procedurals, featuring crimes that have heavy political or societal overtones.

In the international, electronically connected world of police procedurals, only the Scandinavians are truly exotic.

I am not writing police procedurals.

Rows of shelves are laden with paperbacks including police procedurals and many-part series.

As a straight-ahead thriller, it is just simply awful and contains some of the worst police procedurals I've ever seen in a movie.

Taking the advice, Ms. George modernized her approach, placing the emphasis more on police procedurals.

Mysteries can range from English drawing-room puzzle stories to hard-edged, realistic police procedurals, for example.

The opera elicited unkind comparisons to police procedurals on TV.

Out of all the acronym-ed police procedurals that dominate the airwaves this show has most acronyms.

Bartholomew Gill is the author of a series of Irish police procedurals.

"That's because it's really about a family," Mr. Hunter said, adding that he does not like it when his books are described as "police procedurals."

THE authors of these private-eye novels and police procedurals aren't just dredging the terrain for local color, either.

The moral ambiguity gets so thick in Bill James's bitterly cynical police procedurals, you could spread it on toast.

The 50th installment in this celebrated series of police procedurals shows that McBain remains at the top of his form.

Where exactly it began rather depends on whether or not you decide to categorise certain books as police procedurals or as perhaps crime novels.

The police crime drama is based on a popular Bartlett Cormack play.

In 1989, he starred in Ridley Scott's international police crime drama Black Rain opposite Andy García and Kate Capshaw.