‘Art Detectives’ review: A police procedural focused on art world crimes

‘Art Detectives’ review: A police procedural focused on art world crimes

Most TV detectives have a gimmick. Just doing the diligent work of piecing together a puzzle isn’t enough. And to a minor extent, that’s true of “Art Detectives” on Acorn TV, about a policeman who heads up the one-man Heritage Crime Unit in the U.K. His specialty is crime linked to the art world. In the first episode, Mick Palmer (“True Blood’s” Stephen Moyer) travels far from home to investigate a case and is handily assisted by a local constab…