Every crime drama has its own twist, and whether that's the job of the hero (or anti-hero), the city where their investigations take place or the types of crimes they're focused on, it's what makes each new show its own thing in a sea of hit series rooted in solving crimes.
Here, we've described nine popular crime shows from the past 20 years to see if you can sniff out the clues in our show summaries and solve them all. Good luck!
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Pick the crime show with this premise: The most brilliant detectives in New York investigate only the most high-profile cases.
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Pick the crime show with this premise: An interrogator for the LAPD has a reputation for getting confessions from the most evasive suspects.
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Pick the crime show with this premise: A small-time attorney changes his name and partners with an ex-cop-turned-fixer in Albuquerque.
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Pick the crime show with this premise: A CIA case officer working in counterterrorism suspects a retired marine is planning a terror attack.
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Pick the crime show with this premise: A district attorney in Phoenix discovers his intern has psychic abilities, which she then uses to help police solve crimes.
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Pick the crime show with this premise: A forensic anthropologist teams up with an FBI special agent to solve federal murder cases in Washington, D.C.
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Pick the crime show with this premise: A financial planner gets his whole family in over their heads when he launders money for a Mexican drug cartel.
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Pick the crime show with this premise: A serial killer doubles as a blood spatter pattern analyst.
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Pick the crime show with this premise: A homicide detective in Philadelphia seeks answers to murders that date back as far as the 1910s.
