Mystery Bytes: Crime Fiction TV News

Deadline reports that Entertainment One and Piller/Segan/Shepherd, partners on the Syfy series Haven, are re-teaming for another drama series project based on a well known literary properly. The two companies have acquired the TV rights to best-selling author Karin Slaughter’s Grant County series of 6 books featuring the popular character Sara Linton. The project will go into development immediately, with Slaughter co-writing the pilot script with Piller/Segan/Shepherd principal Scott Shepherd.

Set in the fictional Grant County in Georgia, the novels follows Sara Linton, town pediatrician and coroner, and her ex-husband, town police chief Jeffrey Tolliver. The Grant County series include Blindsighted, Kisscut, A Faint Cold Fear, Indelible, Faithless and Beyond Reach.

Hat Tip: ShelfAwareness

Mystery Bytes: Mystery TV News

Mystery TV News:

Tonight (11/29) TNT's Mystery Movie Night  begins with the film adaptation of Scott Turow's Innocent. Tomorrow (11/30), TNT will air  Sandra Brown's Ricochet. Other movies in the series: Hornet's Nest, adapted from Patricia Cornwell's novel (no date yet); Hide by Lisa Gardner (12/6); Silent Witness by Richard North Patterson (12/7); Good Morning, Killer by April Smith (12/13); and Deck the Halls by Mary Higgins Clark and Carol Higgins Clark (12/20). Three other movies will be produced in 2012.

Crime Writer Marcus Sakey previews his new series, Hidden City, which debuts on the Travel Channel December 6. 

CrimeFest will launch the novelization of the Danish crime drama Forbrydelsen, The Killing, in the UK, adapted in the US as The Killing, too. David Hewson, who has written the novelization will appear at CrimeFest, along with members of the cast and crew.

Millenium, the 6-part Swedish TV adaptation of Stieg Larsson's Lisbeth Salander thrillers, won an International Emmy Award for Best  TV Movie/Mini-series.

Watch a parody of The Killing, the Lisbeth Salander series, Wallander & Midsomer Murders, go HERE.

"Inside the NSA" National Geographic TV in January. Rare peek inside this ultra secret agency.

BBC's Sherlock won't be seen on American TV (PBS: Masterpiece Mystery!) until May 6. Here's the Trailer



Hat Tips: The Rap Sheet, In Reference to Murder, 
 Ominimystery News Variety, Deadline