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6461) Alias Grace
Publisher
CBC Home Video / eOne Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
The six-hour miniseries tells the story of Grace Marks, a young, poor Irish immigrant and domestic servant in Upper Canada who, along with stable hand James McDermott, finds herself accused and convicted of the infamous 1843 murders of her employer, wealthy farmer Thomas Kinnear, and his housekeeper Nancy Montgomery.
6462) Call Northside 777
Series
Fox film noir volume 2
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Description
A Chicago reporter finds himself stuck in a decade-old murder investigation when he follows a newspaper ad offering a cash reward for information leading to the arrest of the killer.
Author
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2024]
Description
The Great Depression. High-level corruption. And a murder that’s about to become Seattle’s hottest mystery. It’s the kind of story that can make a reporter’s career. If he lives to write about it.
Seattle, 1933. The city is in the grips of the Great Depression, Prohibition, and vice. Cutting his teeth on a small-time beat, hungry and ambitious young reporter William “Shoe” Shumacher gets a tip that could change his career. There’s been...
6464) The Constant gardener
Publisher
Focus Features
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
In a remote area of Northern Kenya, activist Tessa Quayle is found brutally murdered. Tessa's companion, a doctor, appears to have fled the scene, and all the evidence points to a crime of passion. Members of the British High Commission in Nairobi assume that Tessa's widower, their mild-mannered and unambitious colleague Justin Quayle, will leave the matter to them. Haunted by remorse and jarred by rumors of his late wife's infidelities, Quayle surprises...
6465) Reputation: a novel
Author
Publisher
Emily Bestler Books, Atria
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
Emma, a politician constantly under fire who is lobbying for a new law to protect women and girls from online bullying, is pushed to the limit when a body is found in her house, and will do anything to protect her reputation and family, no matter what the cost.
As a politician, Emma has sacrificed a great deal for her career--including her marriage and her relationship with her daughter, Flora. A former teacher, she finds the glare of the spotlight...
6466) State of play
Publisher
Universal City, CA : Distributed by Universal Studios Home Entertainment, �2009
Pub. Date
2009
Description
A team of investigative reporters work alongside a police detective to try to solve the murder of a congressman's mistress.
6467) Deep dark
Author
Series
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
The moment detective Reed Novak steps onto the crime scene, he knows the case is going to rock his world. A beautiful young woman murdered at home. No sign of forced entry. No motive. She's obviously not the killer's first victim, and Reed's instincts tell him she won't be his last. Reed's first clue comes via a mysterious text that links to a dating profile, but even more intriguing than the clue is the person who sent it. As a white-hat hacker in...
6468) I saw him die: a novel
Author
Series
Agatha Christie volume 4
Publisher
Washington Square Press/Atria
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
Who saw him die? I, said the fly, with my little eye. I saw him die. An astonishingly beautiful setting on the island of Skye. A gathering of fascinating guests at a hunting lodge set to enjoy abundant hospitality. And a double murder. A household in chaos... No one is allowed to leave. A tantalizing new case for Agatha Christie to solve.
Author
Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
"Justice Failed is the story of Alton Logan, an African American man who served twenty-six years in prison for a murder he did not commit. In 1983, Logan was falsely convicted of fatally shooting an off-duty Cook County corrections officer, Lloyd M. Wickliffe, at a Chicago-area McDonald?s, and sentenced to life in prison. While serving time for unrelated charges, Andrew Wilson?the true murderer?admitted his guilt to his own lawyers, Dale Coventry...
6470) End of watch
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Description
Two young officers are marked for death after confiscating
a small cache of money and firearms from the members of a
notorious cartel during a routine traffic stop
6471) Watchmen
Author
Publisher
DC Comics Inc
Pub. Date
1987, c1986
Description
Soon to be an HBO original series, Watchmen, the groundbreaking series from award-winning author Alan Moore, presents a world where the mere presence of American superheroes changed history--the U.S. won the Vietnam War, Nixon is still president, and the Cold War is in full effect.
Considered the greatest graphic novel in the history of the medium, the Hugo Award-winning story chronicles the fall from grace of a group of superheroes plagued by all-too-human...
6472) Murder by numbers
Publisher
Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, �2002
Description
The clues in a Jane Doe murder case points one way, yet detective Cassie Mayweather thinks another way. There's something too perfect about the way the forensic evidence leads to an obvious perpetrator - something that ties to Cassie's secret past.
Author
Series
Peculiar Crimes Unit volume Book Nine
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
The indomitable duo of Arthur Bryant and John May, along with the rest of their quirky team, must solve a confounding case with dark ties to the British theater and a killer who may mean curtains for all involved.
6474) Wicked fox
Author
Series
Gumiho volume Book 1
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
After eighteen-year-old Gu Miyoung, a nine-tailed fox surviving in modern-day Seoul by eating the souls of evil men, kills a murderous goblin to save Jihoon, she is forced to choose between her immortal life and his.
Gu Miyoung is a gumiho, a nine-tailed fox who must devour the energy of men in order to survive. The modern city of Seoul is the perfect place to hide and hunt. After feeding one full moon, Miyoung crosses paths with Jihoon, a human...
Publisher
Mammoth Screen Limited
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
Spring 1972 brings with it a new start for Morse, having taken time out to deal with the drink. His return to CID coincides with a gruesome discovery in a college garden. The investigation leads him and Thursday to a celebrated orchestra and when a second tragedy hits, they uncover a web of secrets at the company's core.
6476) Dead sand
Author
Series
Lewis Cole volume Book 1
Publisher
Otto Penzler
Pub. Date
1994
Description
Lewis Cole, a resident of tourist town Tyler Beach, New Hampshire, turns sleuth when prominent community members are marked for death and a beautiful girl is found hanged.
6477) The masked truth
Author
Publisher
Doubleday Canada
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
Riley Vasquez is haunted by the brutal murder of the couple she was babysitting for. Max Cross is suffering under the shadow of a life-altering diagnosis he doesn't dare reveal. The last thing either of them wants is to spend a weekend away at a therapy camp alongside five other teens with "issues." But that's exactly where they are when three masked men burst in to take the group hostage. The building has no windows. The exits are sealed shut. Their...
6478) Manhunt: Season 1
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
When the battered body of a French student is found on Twickenham Green in London, hardworking and humble DCI Colin Sutton is appointed the lead detective on his first big case. Despite objections from his superiors, Sutton believes the young woman's murder may be connected to a previous attack and embarks on a quest to catch a serial killer. Realistically portraying the ins and outs of police investigations, it tells the story of one detective's...
6479) Amores perros
Publisher
Distributed by Studio Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2001
Description
Three different people are catapulted into dramatic and unforseen circumstances in the wake of a terrible car crash: a young punk stumbles into the sinister underground world of dog fighting; an injured supermodel's designer pooch disappears into the apartment's floorboards; and an ex-radical turned hit man rescues a Rotweiler with a gunshot wound.
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