13 Unforgettable Dark Thrillers That Have an OZARK Vibe

The series follows Esa Khattak and Rachel Getty, Canadian detectives who work for a department that handles minority-sensitive cases. While the series travels around the world, and you get to watch the characters’ growth, you start with Esa Khattak running a police unit focusing on community policing. He requests Rachel Getty, a cop’s daughter who was targeted after filing a sexual harassment claim, to join his unit. Their current case shouldn’t be complicated–a man out for a walk fell to his death–and yet it becomes very complicated…

(TW child abuse/ war crimes, torture, rape camps/ pedophilia not on page, discussed/ suicide, including past child, detail)

This is a fun historical (1940s New York) series with great humor. Willowjean “Will” Parker has been working in the circus since she ran away from home until Lillian Pentecost, a famous PI, hires her. Will is technically hired to help Pentecost with mundane tasks due to Pentecost’s multiple sclerosis, but neither is great with following instructions as opposed to doing what they actually want to do. Pentecost and Will end up great partners in solving crimes, and butting heads a lot. But first we learn, as Will narrates, how they came to partner up and all about one of their biggest cases, one which involved the patriarch of a family dead by suicide and the matriarch murdered in a locked room on fire.

(TW recent past suicide, detail/ mentions of past child abuse and domestic abuse, not graphic/ homophobia)