
The Detail is a videogame for people who just like the shootouts in The Wire
The crime drama aims for gravitas, and misses.
The crime drama aims for gravitas, and misses.
Her Story might be a good videogame, but it’s the worst kind of crime fiction.
The surprising rewards of a murder mystery in an obsolete search engine simulator.
I have a friend who works in the ambulance service. He tells me stories. I ask him to. The expected tragedies aside (horrific traffic accidents, families in peril, octogenarians dying alone completely neglected), the most fascinating details of his job, at least to my eager ears, are sourced from his on-job training days. This is when he was instructed to shadow the movements of a 40-year veteran (now retired), learning his techniques, picking up his intuition. What most struck me and, it seemed, my friend, is how this guy was able to stride into a stranger’s house and, within seconds,…
Murder, molestation, and a man’s face in a deep-fryer.
I sat in court as a member of the jury this past summer and found it disappointing. I’d been spoiled by the dramatized murder trials and the heart-tugging sociopolitical conflicts in the fictional courtrooms of 12 Angry Men, To Kill A Mockingbird, and A Few Good Men. The verdicts were obvious, there was no shouting or revelatory speeches to be made, no drama; one of the defendants failed to turn up, and so was judged entirely on the prosecutor’s argument, sentenced in less than 10 minutes. It wasn’t until I had spent those two weeks in and out of court…
Drink coffee; solve murders.
On the verge of retirement …