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The cozy villages of Midsomer County reveal their most sinister secrets in these contemporary British television mysteries. The Dark Rider: Sightings of a headless horseman doom members of the aristocratic DeQuetteville family as they plan a Civil War battle reenactment. Murder of Innocence: The return of a convicted murderer to Midsomer sparks a series of revenge killings, but the top suspect soon becomes a target. Death and the Divas: Tensions between...
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
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Likable family man Tom Barnaby is the down-to-earth Chief detective for a cluster of idyllic English country villages where some of the rose-covered cottages are home to murderers, thieves, and blackmailers. Barnaby exposes the criminals with the help from his eager young assistant Sargeant Troy and from his supportive wife.
5) Stay close
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English
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Three people--suburban housewife Megan, who is dissatisfied with her life; her husband, Ray, who once had a promising career as a documentary photographer, but now works as a paparazzo; and Broome, a detective who cannot let go of a cold case involving a missing man--find their pasts coming back to haunt them as they keep secrets from their loved ones.
6) Columbo
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2004], c1971-c1972
Language
English
Description
Columbo, a disheveled, cigar-chomping, trench coat-wearing police lieutenant, who appears to be an incompetent bumbler. Despite his appearance, Columbo is the shrewdest, most resourceful detective in the LAPD.
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Home from a two-year assignment in the British Virgin Islands, Inspector Robert Lewis, protégé of the legendary Inspector Morse, returns to Oxford, England, where he is teamed with a brilliant new partner, Detective Sergeant James Hathaway.
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
Former crime fighters Bob and Helen are now living "normal" lives with their children Violet, Dash, and Jack-Jack. But then Bob gets a chance to get back into action when a mysterious communication summons him to a remote island for a top secret assignment, and it takes the whole family to rescue the world from total destruction.
9) Live to tell
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English
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Veteran police detective D. D. Warren, investigating the apparent murder-suicide of four members of a Boston family, meets Danielle Burton, a dedicated nurse whose past haunts her, and Victoria Oliver, a mother who will do anything for her troubled son, and the lives of the three women unexpectedly become connected.
Publisher
Distributed by American Home Treasures
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Dressed to kill: When unsuspecting purchasers of music boxes start turning up dead, Holmes and Watson discover an even bigger problem - their prime suspect is already behind bars.
The woman in green: A series of bizarre, seemingly unconnected murders leads Holmes and Watson to a society of hypnothists and a mysterious, glamerous woman.
Terror by night: Holmes thinks he can prevent the theft of an enormous diamond, the Star of Rhodesia ... that is...
11) Ricochet
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English
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"When Detective Sergeant Duncan Hatcher is summoned to the home of Judge Cato Laird in the middle of the night to investigate a fatal shooting, he knows that discretion and kid-glove treatment are the keys to staying in the judge's good graces and keeping his job. At first glance, the case appears open-and-shut: Elise, the judge's trophy wife, interrupted a burglary in progress and killed the intruder in self-defense. But Duncan is immediately suspicious...
12) Vera
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
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Follows a solitary, obsessed, cantankerous investigaor-- who happens to be pure genius at her job.
Language
English
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Fitz is an addicted gambler, a heavy drinker, and a brilliant, if deeply flawed criminal psychologist. Follow Fitz as he investigates an accused commuter train killer with amnesia, a couple who share love and murder, and the killing of a young boy that shakes a community to its core.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
Disc 1, Episode one. Something to treasure: Hetty and Geoffrey head to Cumbria, where a miner's widow enlists them in the search for a missing book penned by her late husband. The widow claims the book was stolen. But is she really after the book--or its map to a cache of precious minerals hidden somewhere inside the mine? -- Episode 2. Family values: When a wealthy client asks Hetty to investigate suspicious circumstances surrounding the death of...
19) Zero day
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
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Military investigator John Puller is called out to a remote, rural area far from any military outpost to investigate the brutal murder of a family in their home. The dead husband was in the army and the wife worked for a Pentagon contractor. The local homicide detective, a woman with personal demons of her own, clashes with Puller over the investigation. What neither of them knows is what is waiting for them across the street from the murdered family's...
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