: What genre would this fall under? Imagine a story in which the criminal is, from the very beginning, already known to the protagonist. Now the task is to find the criminal, but the target

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You could go with Thriller.

If attempts are being made at capturing the criminal but s/he escapes everytime, I suspect there'd be lots of thrilling moments.

You could also use Drama.

This depends on how the story develops. For example if the detectives husband is the criminal who's been having an affair with the detective's sister on the side.

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Crime drama.

Wikipedia told me so. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fall_%28TV_series%29 @JStrange88 led me to it.

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This is extremely similar to a British show called The Fall, on Netflix. You know right from the get-go, and he gets plenty of screen-time throughout. I urge you to watch that before you start writing this. There are definitely some pitfalls to avoid with this sort of thing.

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