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Cozy crime — my favourite tropes

All TV (radio / fiction…) has tropes, those over-familiar motifs and plot elements to which we grow accustomed and ofttimes bored. Some are fairly general (there’s a plot vs genre thing here) and some pertinent to the genre. Here I capture my view on some of the commonest amongst the various cozy crime and to be fair police procedural shows I watch. They aren’t in alphabetical order, more a…