Best-selling thriller author Lee Child says fans of his fictional hero Jack Reacher should suspend their anger at Tom Cruise having been cast as the tall and strapping man of action.

Cruise has been filming the first Reacher movie, One Shot, which is due...

British author David Hewson brings Sarah Lund to life on the page in two new novels based on Denmark's groundbreaking TV crime series...

Life continues after The Killing for the TV sensation that put Danish noir on the...

Nudity, violence, bad language - the Italian crime series Romanzo Criminale has them all. Director Stefano Sollima talks from Italy about his hugely successful fact-based drama that recounts the bloody rise of an Italian gang who defied the cops and the Mafia during the...

Emilia di Girolamo is the lead writer on the fifth series of Law & Order: UK, which returns to ITV1 this month (from Sunday, 10 July, 9pm).

The drama, which was spun-off from the classic US series and takes the original American storylines as the basis for each...

The Danes who made The Killing - or Forbrydelsen - were basically giving the two-fingered salute to all those slick US thrillers they'd been fed down the years. The tiniest smirk may have crossed their faces when the Americans liked it so much they ended up copying it.