Catalog Search Results
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Superintendent Sandra Pullman leads the unsolved crimes unit of the Metropolitan Police. Her team includes three aging former detectives lured out of retirement. Can a curmudgeonly trio of crime busters learn new tricks to crack tough crimes? Or are old-fashioned hunches and footwork still best?
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Annie Woodrow is the wife of a pop music inpresario who stands accused of killing her best friend. All the evidence points to Annie as the killer, but DCI Barnaby begins to doubt her guilt. With friend and clinical psychologist Pru Plunkett feeding his suspicions, Barnaby sets out to find the truth.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
A young monk in Shrewsbury, England falls in love with a beautiful widow and is found cruelly bludgeoned to death. When Brother Cadfael investigates, he uncovers widespread hypocrisy and greed in the community, while the widow would rather become a nun than marry again.
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
With the town of Elverton in an uproar over a new supermarket, an environmental consultant hired by the store is found stabbed to death. It turns out the consultant has been consulting with the local ladies and definitely not about the environment.
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
The new director of the Midsomer Worthy choir wants to win the upcoming choral competition in the worst way. He demands perfection from his singers. When tenor and local artist Connor Simpson is murdered after practice and other choir members receive threatening notes, disharmony reigns.
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
A behind-the-scenes documentary featuring the cast and crew of Midsomer murders as they reflect on their experiences in the deadlies "county" in all of England. Includes an exclusive interview with novelist Caroline Graham.
Publisher
Acorn
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
The hit British crime series returns with new mysteries. Aging cops and traditional sleuthing trump high-tech gadgets and modern criminology. As one of the most-watched shows on British television, New Tricks features strong writing, wry humor, and a splendid cast. Bonus: Behind-the-scenes featurette and bloopers.
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Already divided over the construction of a new overpass, the village of Dunstan is further shaken when psychic Lynne Fox discovers a reclusive couple brutally murdered in their home. Local boy D.S. Jones finds himself personally involved in the case when it turns out that his old schoolmates are keeping secrets about the death of one friend and the disappearance of another.
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
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.
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
A nine-decade rivalry between the Hammond and Hicks families turns violent after a dishonored soldier's name is added to the World War I memorial in Midsomer Parva. When the Hicks patriarch is shot dead, suspicion naturally falls back onto the Hammonds. As the investigation proceeds, however, it appears that the two families have much more in common than they originally believed.
Publisher
distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
"The village of Little Worthing prides itself on two tourist attractions: the annual boat race and an elaborate model village. Then the body of troublemaker Richard Tanner turns up bound on the model with string and pegs like a passage from Gulliver's Travels. As Barnaby and Jones investigate, they discover that outsized passions swirled around the tiny figurines and that this model hamlet hides troubling personal histories"--Container.
Publisher
distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
"A cat burglar called the Creeper stalks the homes of Causton, putting residents on high alert. But more than jewelry and electronics are at stake, as the long-secrets of the aristocratic Chettham family start to come to light. The Chetthams have staved off financial ruin by selling their home to their friend Jack Filby. When a man is suffocated and his valuables stolen at a birthday party hosted by Filby, it seems the Creeper has turned killer. Barnaby...
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request