7 New Crime TV Shows on Netflix to Stream in May 2024

If you miss quality crime stories, Netflix has seven great new shows that have already wowed critics and audiences alike.

7. Anthracite

Release date: April 10, 2024

Rotten Tomatoes score: 60%

Our list starts with the French series Anthracite. It's a fascinating thriller that will remind many of Harlan Coben's novels, as the series has enough dark revelations and thrills to keep you glued to the screen.

30 years after a gruesome mass suicide by members of a local cult in a remote Alpine town, another murder has occurred, and all evidence points to a ritualistic killing. Ida (Noemi Schmidt), an eccentric young Internet sleuth, takes on the case. She is brought to town by the disappearance of her father, a reporter who went to investigate the murder but was kidnapped.

6. Crooks

Release date: April 4, 2024

Rotten Tomatoes score: 80%

Crooks is a German action drama whose plot follows a retired safecracker living a quiet life with his family in Berlin and a driver belonging to an Austrian criminal clan. One day, the former is assigned to steal a valuable coin, but in the course of certain events, both men are forced to flee, and now they must rebuild both trust and their own lives.

5. The Brothers Sun

Release date: January 4, 2024

Rotten Tomatoes score: 84%

The series follows the story of ordinary Angeleno Bruce Sun (Sam Song Li) whose everyday life is thrown into disarray when his older brother Charles (Justin Chien) moves in from Taipei, Taiwan to protect his brother and their mother (Michelle Yeoh). Bruce discovers that his family are renowned gangsters in Taiwan and that their lifestyle is now being imported to the United States.

4. Griselda

Release date: January 25, 2024

Rotten Tomatoes score: 87%

Next on the list is Griselda. The story traces the life of the infamous drug kingpin who dominated nearly all of Miami, Florida's drug trade from the '70s to the early '00s.

The fierce Colombian, known as the Black Widow and the Cocaine Godmother, was immersed in the criminal underworld from an early age and rapidly rose to prominence in the violent drug wars after immigrating to the US.

3. Boy Swallows Universe

Release date: January 11, 2024

Rotten Tomatoes score: 87%

Boy Swallows Universe is a dark coming-of-age drama adapted from the semi-autobiographical novel of the same name by Trent Dalton. Set in Brisbane, Australia in the 80s, it centers on an average teenager. However, his family is dysfunctional to say the least, comprising a substance-abusing mother, an estranged father he's never met, a drug-dealing stepfather, and a mute brother. The boy is forced to enter the criminal underworld in order to protect his family and grow into a decent person.

2. A Killer Paradox

Release date: February 9, 2024

Rotten Tomatoes score: 100%

A special mention goes to a new K-drama starring Train to Busan and Parasite actor Choi Woo-shik. The plot revolves around Choi Woo-shik, who accidentally kills a drunk man while moonlighting in a convenience store. However, the victim turns out to be a serial killer, and Lee Tang, believing the murder to be justified, embarks on a quest to eliminate other outlaws who are escaping the justice system.

1. The Asunta Case

Release date: April 26, 2024

Rotten Tomatoes score: 100%

Finally, we have a highly acclaimed Spanish crime thriller. The plot revolves around the gruesome murder of a little girl Asunta Basterra, whose body was found in Teo, A Coruña, Galicia, Spain, on September 22, 2013. Her foster parents were identified as the killers, and the investigation into their involvement served as the basis for the series.