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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...
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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
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
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.
8) Stay close
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Language
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.
9) Twin Peaks
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Includes both seasons of this Golden Globe-winning series. Follow FBI special agent Dale Cooper as he tries to hunt down just who killed Laura Palmer in the sleepy town of Twin Peaks, Washington.
10) Live to tell
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Language
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.
11) Monk: Season two
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
Former police detective Adrian Monk suffers from intensified obsessive-compulsive disorder and a variety of phobias. Despite his photographic memory and his amazing ability to piece tiny clues together, he is now on psychiatric leave from the San Francisco Police Department. With the aid of his nurse Sharona Fleming, Monk works as a freelance consultant, hoping to convince his former boss to allow him to return to the force.
12) 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.
13) 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...
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
The cozy villages of Midsomer County reveal their most sinister secrets. Second sight: A mysterious death brings Detective Chief Inspector Barnaby and his young assistant Sergeant Dan Scott to Midsomer Mere, where villagers claim psychic powers. Hidden depths: Barnaby and Scott face a bizarre crime scene when a local oenophile gets killed by a combination of catapult, croquet, and Chateau Lafite. Sauce for the goose: After a visitor dies while touring...
16) The hunted
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
Aaron Hallam is one of the U.S. military's most skilled hand-to-hand combat operatives. Plagued by traumatic flashbacks of death and destruction, he regresses into a feral, survivalist state in the woods of the Pacific Northwest. There, he deliberately and elaborately hunts and kills poachers who happen to cross his path. When the FBI investigates the murders, they call in the man who taught Hallam everything he knows: retiree L.T. Bonham. As the...
17) The Incredibles
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.
19) Miss Marple
Publisher
A&E Home Video
Pub. Date
2001, c1987-1992
Language
English
Description
Jane Marple is vacationing in Barbados when a string of dead bodies forces the detective back to work. An American movie star comes to Miss Marple's village to shoot a picture. Murders among the cast and crew bring Miss Marple into a web of jealousies. A young couple buys a house. Soon after they move in, they are haunted by visions of a body. Jane Marple comes and unravels the past of the house to stop any more murders. A friend of Miss Marple's...
20) The neighbor
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English
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In the wake of a wife and mother's disappearance from her suburban home, an ensuing police investigation focuses on the missing woman's husband, whose suspicious behavior reveals cracks in their seemingly idyllic family life.
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