Price (the author of The Wanderers and Clockers) and Steven Zaillian (who wrote the screenplay for Schindler's List) created the extraordinary miniseries The Night Of (2016), which demonstrated the ambiguities of real-life crime and criminal justice better than any drama I can think of. Americans are used to a steady diet of British crime stories through PBS's Masterpiece Mystery, but among the many distinctly British stories, such as Happy Valley, about a rural female police sergeant whose daughter died of a drug overdose, and the many inspirations from Colin Dexter's novels (Inspector Morse, Lewis, and Endeavour) are a number of dramas adapted from outside Britain. Many of the foreign shows rather obviously resemble older American crime shows like Diagnosis: Murder or Starsky and Hutch with amiable, not-toothreatening criminals and comic secondary characters, but the Scandinavian ones are as grim as noir-lovers thirst for. What does confronting crime do to the people who must confront it? J. Madison Davis is the author of eight mystery novels, including The Murder of Frau Schütz, an Edgar nominee, and Law and Order: Dead Line.