Black Doves and 4 Other Detective Series With High RT Scores Released in 2024
Supernatural sleuths, a cleaning lady turned detective, and secret agents.
Every year, streaming services hold a competition for the most clever and successful take on the crime genre. The competition offers viewers dozens of interesting mysteries, true crimes, and adaptations of suspenseful novels.
1. Criminal Record, 2024-...
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 90%
Two police officers from different generations clash over new evidence in a long-closed case. A frightened woman called London's emergency services. Her boyfriend had threatened her with a knife, saying that ten years ago he had dismembered a woman and got away with it. The victim's husband was jailed for that murder.
Young Sergeant June Lenker hopes to restore justice and turns to veteran Inspector Daniel Hegarty for help. An irreconcilable conflict immediately erupts between them. Lenker is certain that Hegarty is being evasive, deliberately slowing down the investigation and hiding important evidence.
2. Black Doves, 2024-...
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 93%
Helen, the perfect wife of the Secretary of Defense and mother of twins, decorates the house for Christmas and watches her husband closely. Ten years ago, she joined the Black Doves, an organization that sells state secrets at a high price. Work went according to plan until Helen fell in love with Jason and told him her biggest secret.
When Jason is killed, Helen, obsessed with revenge, begins a dangerous investigation. The head of the Black Doves is worried about the life of her best agent and invites Sam, a killer, mentor and loyal friend of Helen, to help her.
But Sam has a lot on his plate, including killing a man he once pardoned and doing the impossible – falling out of love with the main woman of his life.
3. The Day of the Jackal, 2024-...
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 86%
Jackal's arsenal includes precision weapons, a dozen masks, and a talent for covering his tracks. After killing a German politician, he slips out of the country and returns to his beloved wife and child in a luxurious mansion.
The respite was short-lived. The client failed to pay the Jackal his fee, and a new case was just around the corner. Tired and angry, the previously elusive killer makes one misfire after another.
His wife finds his secret stash of ammunition and fake passports, and an unprincipled hunter, MI6 agent Bianca, gets on Jackal's trail.
4. Dead Boy Detectives, 2024
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 92%
Ghosts Charles and Edwin died at different times and remained in the world of the living. For 30 years, the friends have been investigating paranormal crimes, catching villains, and helping spirits lost among mortals find peace.
In the first episode, the psychic Crystal joins them. Her psychic abilities help them uncover buried secrets, confront the witch, and deal with fantastic evil spirits.
5. High Potential, 2024-...
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 94%
Single mother Morgan leaves her children at home and takes a job cleaning the police station's homicide unit. She accidentally drops a box of materials from a new, complicated case. Looking at crime scene photos, she makes connections and creates a collage on the wall that gives the police the identity of the killer.
The next day, Morgan is asked to join the detectives as a consultant, guaranteeing her a high salary and helping her find her first husband, who disappeared 15 years ago.
Thanks to her erudition, photographic memory and empathy for the victims, the woman speeds up the investigation and solves the most sophisticated crimes.