The police procedural is a subgenre of detective fiction which attempts to convincingly depict the activities of a police force as they investigate crimes. While traditional detective novels usually concentrate on a single crime, police procedurals frequently depict investigations into several unrelated crimes in a single story. While traditional mysteries usually adhere to the convention of having the criminal's identity concealed until the clim...
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TV programs of this genre:
- Law & Order ,
- Holby Blue ,
- Hawaii Five-0 ,
- The Inspector Lynley Mysteries ,
- Life on Mars ,
- Ashes to Ashes ,
- Boomtown ,
- Michael Hayes ,
- Women's Murder Club ,
- The Man In Room 17 / The Fellows
