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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...
2) The big exit
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Frank Sinatra impersonator and ex-con Richie Forman finds himself with no one to trust when he becomes the prime suspect in the murder of his ex-best friend who stole his fiancée while he was in prison.
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St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2000
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English
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Discusses several aspects of extremely destructive fires of the late twentieth century, drawing from interviews with investigators, firefighters, and forensic scientists; also discusses human behavior in the face of fire emergency.
4) The hunted
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Paramount
Pub. Date
c2003
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English
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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...
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A&E Home Video
Pub. Date
c2006
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English
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The moving finger: Miss Marple investigates a series of deaths related to a chain letter. At Bertram's Hotel: London's Bertram's Hotel is renowned for its high-class clientele and well-polished atmosphere of elegence--but Miss Marple uncover's the hotels sinister side when the doorman turns up dead.
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2013.
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IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 14
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When her sister is wrongly implicated in an explosion that has destroyed her family's priceless antiques business and killed an employee, Hannah struggles to find clues in the ashes and discovers a life-threatening secret from the past.
7) Blood work
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Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2002
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English
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There is a masked killer on the loose, and the police believe its the locations that are important and that the victims are just unlucky. But retired FBI agent McCaleb thinks that it goes the other way around. The killer's victims are very specific. Forced to retire after suffering a heart attack, and receiving a new heart 2 years later, he is approached by the sister of the murdered woman whose heart he now has. Now McCaleb has to use his wits to...
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A&E Home Video
Pub. Date
c2006
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English
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Murder at the vicarage: Miss Marple has a hard time discerning suspects from innocents when Colonel Protheroe--a man whom the entire village hated--turns up dead. Nemesis: Miss Marple is drawn into strange and sinister circumstances when a recently deceased friend leaves a cryptic note for her asking her to right an injustice, but leaves no clues as to what it is or who is involved.
9) Hanging Hill
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Detective Zoe Benedict's most recent case, a murdered young woman who was involved in amateur pornography, threatens to expose secrets from Zoe's past.
10) Mistress
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"Ben isn't like most people. Unable to control his racing thoughts, he's a man consumed by his obsessions: movies, motorcycles, presidential trivia-and Diana Hotchkiss, a beautiful woman Ben knows he can never have. When Diana is found dead outside her apartment, Ben's infatuation drives him on a hunt to find out what happened to the love of his life. Ben soon discovers that the woman he pined for was hiding a shocking double life. And now someone...
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Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2016
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English
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A tight-knit team of rising investigators, along with their supervisor, is suddenly torn apart when they discover that one of their own teenage daughters has been brutally murdered.
"...a solid genre outing with unsettling topical resonance."--Hollywood Reporter.
"What DOESN'T get lost in translation is what made 'El Secreto De Sus Ojos' so effective: the visceral, devastating empathy we feel when a horrible injustice is committed and it ruins multiple...
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A&E Home Video
Pub. Date
c2006
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English
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Sleeping murder: Miss Marple investigates when a woman begins seeing visions of a dead body in her hallway, and real dead bodies begin showing up. 4:50 from Paddington: On her way to visit, Miss Marple's friend witnesses a strangulation on a passing train; Miss Marple launches her own investigation when the police dismiss the murderous claims after no body turns up, and the clues lead her to a stately family with a dark past.
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"'Why is this town called Mother's Rest?' That's all Reacher wants to know. But no one will tell him. It's a tiny place hidden in a thousand square miles of wheat fields, with a railroad stop, and sullen and watchful people, and a worried woman named Michelle Chang, who mistakes him for someone else: her missing partner in a private investigation she thinks must have started small and then turned lethal. Reacher has no particular place to go, and...
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Ulysses Press
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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Discover the fascinating true crime stories of JonBenť Ramsey, the Black Dahlia, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum theft, the Amber Alert case, the Cleveland Torso Murders, and more--a must-read for murderinos, armchair detectives, and online sleuths of all kinds! From mystifying heists to shocking murders, Cold Cases: A True Crime Collection features case file facts, fascinating details, and chilling testimonies of the world's most famous cold...
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A&E Home Video
Pub. Date
c2006
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English
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Miss Marple goes to Stonygates, a rambling country mansion, to see if she can figure out why someone is systematically poisoning her friend Carrie-Louise Serrocold. There, she gets sucked in to a killing at the local reformatory for young criminals.
17) The drowned boy
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"A new addition to the captivating Inspector Sejer series, the first since The Caller, from Norway's finest crime writer Carmen and Nicolai failed to resuscitate their son, Tommy, after finding him floating in their backyard pond. When Inspector Skarre arrives on the scene, Carmen reports that Tommy, a healthy toddler with Down syndrome, wandered into the garden while Nicolai was working in the basement and she was cleaning the house. Skarre senses...
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Hopedale, Florida, deputy sheriff Sara Cross, dealing with her son's leukemia, puts her life in danger to undergo a covert investigation into the shooting death of a motorist by her former partner, Billy Flynn, which results in her crossing paths with dangerous criminals from New Jersey who think Billy might know the whereabouts of some of their missing money.
19) Out of bounds
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A stunning new cold case novel from internationally bestselling crime writer Val McDermid about a car crash that opens up an unsolved murder from decades before Internationally bestselling author Val McDermid is one of our finest crime writers, whose gripping, impeccably plotted novels have garnered millions of readers worldwide. In her latest, Out of Bounds, she delivers a riveting cold case novel featuring detective Karen Pirie. When a teenage joyrider...
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20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010
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English
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Temperance Brennan is a highly skilled forensic anthropologist in Washington, DC. FBI Agent Seeley Booth calls on her to assist with investigations when the standard methods of identifying a body are useless, when the remains are badly decomposed, burned or destroyed beyond recognition.
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