by Jo Monroe | Mar 8, 2012 | Crime drama posts, Crime fiction posts
To mark International Women’s Day I thought I’d get into list-making mode. I’m a big fan of strong female protagonists, especially in crime fiction – feisty old (and maybe not so old) birds with a mystery to solve or justice to uphold or...
by Jo Monroe | Feb 10, 2012 | Crime drama posts, Crime fiction posts
** THERE BE SPOILERS HERE ** Oh very dear. Alarm bells should have sounded when last week I spotted Shaun Evans’s unfeasibly small part. It’s happened a number of times in British crime dramas – a well known actor (or at least one who was previously...
by Jo Monroe | Feb 2, 2012 | Crime drama posts, Crime fiction posts
In his review of episode 1, John Crace of the Guardian suggested that Whitechapel (Mondays 9:00pm ITV1) was best watched on autopilot while you’re actually doing something else. So I thought I’d watch and blog about it simultaneously – saves a lot of...
by Jo Monroe | Jan 7, 2012 | Crime drama posts, Crime fiction posts
Now it’s all done and dusted (and without worrying about including the odd spoiler) I thought, given The Killing is a crime drama with a female protagonist, and it’s made in Denmark (I think here in the UK we all assume the Scandinavians are pretty liberal...
by Jo Monroe | Jan 2, 2012 | Crime drama posts, Crime fiction posts
I started watching the new feature-length BBC Sherlock, based on Conan Doyle’s A Scandal in Bohemia, on New Year’s day with company. But 15 minutes in, when I couldn’t really answer the question ‘Is this supposed to be for kids?’, I was...
by Jo Monroe | Nov 21, 2011 | Crime drama posts, Crime fiction posts
Hurrah! Not sure about the new knitwear, but the cagoule doesn’t seemed to have changed. She can sniff out an unsafe arrest all the way from the Swedish border. More rain so far this series than last – which reminds me of the US version of the first...
