More shows with witty crime partnership, artful murder mystery, and clue-solving suspense. Every pick is a recent premiere or a returning season.
Closest matches first, then broader nearby picks.
Why it fits: ChiaroScuro makes crime entertaining through art-world clues and dry banter, and Siren's Kiss also mixes mystery with charged conversations and danger. Its auction-house setting brings a similar fascination with art, while the fake romance adds a more intimate, uneasy kind of tension.
TF1 · Nov 3, 2025
Why it fits: The pleasure of ChiaroScuro comes from watching mismatched partners trade dry jokes while they untangle a crime, a pleasure Un meurtre (presque) parfait shares. Its sharp novelist and exuberant assistant bicker through a sunny, playful whodunit, making the mystery lighter and more openly comic.
Britbox · Oct 13, 2026
Why it fits: ChiaroScuro turns close observation into a source of crime-solving fun, and Ludwig offers the same pleasure in watching an unusual mind catch what others miss. Its puzzle designer tackles baffling cases with dry comedy, while a search for his missing twin adds a more personal thread.
Why it fits
ChiaroScuro makes clue-solving a pleasure through an art advisor and inspector whose mismatched partnership brings dry humour to a serial-killer hunt; The Blue Road offers another detective pairing decoding a killer’s clues. Its cross-border murders and grisly scenes make the puzzle darker and more severe, with no art-world playfulness.
Why it fits
ChiaroScuro’s clue-by-clue murder mystery and uneasy investigative partnership lead naturally to The Chestnut Man’s detectives closing in on a killer. The Copenhagen murders bring a colder, more disturbing kind of suspense, centered on a deadly game of hide and seek rather than art-inspired crimes and dry banter.
Why it fits
The serial-killer puzzle and investigative friction in ChiaroScuro find a darker counterpart in Detective Hole, where a homicide detective pursues a killer amid police corruption. Instead of an unlikely partnership’s dry humour, expect a brooding, personal manhunt, with suspicion inside the department and the detective’s own demons adding pressure.
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