The best detective & mystery films, series, games & books

A journalist's daughter vanishes without trace; eight years later her impossible return turns a family reunion into a nightmare.

A detective arrives at a seemingly peaceful station and has one week to solve a murder under departmental and public pressure.

An escaped convict invades a remote cottage and terrorises the dysfunctional trio he finds there.

Reclusive Franklin's dating-app affair spirals into deadly obsession with consequences he cannot escape.

A new Ghostface killer forces Sidney Prescott to protect her daughter while confronting the horrors of her past.

Sent by the King, an 18th-century chevalier and his companion investigate mysterious beast killings across rural France.

A shepherd reads detective novels to his sheep nightly — and when trouble hits the farm, the sheep decide to investigate.

On a stable farm, hidden sexualities and secret desires build toward a dark thriller revelation.

New York's Special Victims Unit — the elite squad dedicated to the most heinous sexually-based offences — pursues every case.

Ageing and down on his luck, Ben Reilly works as a private investigator in 1930s New York, haunted by his superhero past.

A Las Vegas forensic team solves crimes by collecting irrefutable physical evidence from every scene.

Violent crime keeps shattering the peace of Midsomer, and a veteran DCI methodically pursues each guilty party.

The FBI's most-wanted fugitive surrenders and offers insider knowledge of dangerous criminals — his own motives stay opaque.

A Birmingham gang boss uses ruthless ambition to move up through the criminal underworld of post-WWI England.

Blood-spatter analyst Dexter Morgan secretly hunts the criminals who slipped through the cracks of justice.

The New York FBI office brings every talent and technical resource to bear on major national cases.

Framed undercover cop Max Payne hunts the conspiracy that destroyed his life through New York's violent criminal underworld.

Kidnapped bartender Desmond Miles relives a medieval assassin's memories so a corporation can locate a hidden artefact.

Kratos wages a hack-and-slash war through mythological enemies in this PlayStation 2 action sequel.

A merchant ship vanishes on a voyage to the Orient; months later an investigator arrives to determine what happened to every soul aboard.

A detective RPG with political and philosophical depth, set in a decaying city — the definitive version with full voice acting.

Six months on, Bigby Wolf returns as Fabletown's sheriff in a gritty winter noir where fairy-tale endings don't exist.

Psychological horror meets Southern Gothic as a haunting story unfolds through two investigators' perspectives.

Four parallel universes, four Spider-Men — each armed with unique strengths to tackle their own distinct threats.

Dostoyevsky's *Crime and Punishment* — a novel about a murderer, guilt, and the weight of justice closing in.

Retired to the English countryside, Poirot is pulled back into detection when a local squire is brutally murdered.

Poe's foundational detective story, introducing C. Auguste Dupin and the method of pure logical deduction.

A dinner guest dies from a cocktail with no trace of poison — a murder Poirot calls entirely predictable.

Miss Marple applies her sharp reading of human nature to the shooting of a universally despised magistrate.

Three generations share a house — and when the wealthy patriarch is murdered, suspicion falls on the entire household.

The Thunderhead rules a perfect world but has no control over the scythedom — and after a year off-grid, Rowan's fate is unknown.

A local gazette advertises a murder in advance — the villagers of Chipping Cleghorn, including Miss Marple, arrive to see it happen.