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1) The First 48
Publisher
A&E®
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
The First 48 follows the nation’s top police departments during the critical first 48 hours of murder investigations.
Publisher
BBC Studios
Language
English
Description
In this series, Peter Pascoe and his wife, Ellie, now heavily pregnant, drive to a picturesque Cotsworld village to visit friends, only to find them murdered; a charming serial killer haunts the sleepy Yorkshire town of Wetherton; pest control takes on a new meaning when Dalziel and Pascoe investigate a suspicious rose grower; and Dalziel finds himself under suspicion when an old man is killed by a drunken driver.
4) Father Brown
Publisher
BBC Studios
Language
English
Description
In the idyllic English countryside of the 1950s, murder and foul play are afoot. Father Brown, a Catholic priest who has spent years learning of evil from the confessions of his parishioners, is on the case. A loving adaptation of the novels of GK Chesterton, Father Brown presents a long forgotten side of country life full of humour, warmth and devious goings on. The shambolic Father may seem like the last person you'd turn to in a crisis, but beneath...
Publisher
BBC Studios
Language
English
Description
DI Richard Poole is still trapped on the stunning Caribbean island paradise of Saint-Marie as this light-hearted detective drama returns. The sun, sea and sand still continue to irritate him, just as he irritates his long-suffering colleagues. Alongside the beautiful Sergeant Camille Bordey, he takes on a baffling array of murder cases, from pirate curses to nuns killed in locked rooms - even solving cases with a hurricane bearing down on them. Most...
Publisher
BBC Studios
Language
English
Description
The beautiful Yorkshire village of Keldale is scandalised by the gruesome murder of local farmer, William Tey. The Yorkshire police are obliged to team one of their investigators with a London Superintendent, which places well spoken Superintendent Thomas Lynley with the tricky and resentful detective, Barbara Havers. While their relationship struggles, their findings become ever more interesting and when the investigators organise a reunion between...
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
The third season of this riveting crime drama opens with a cataclysmic event which reverberates throughout the eight episodes. Fifty-five souls are lost to a terrible locomotive disaster, with the wreckage landing right in the lap of 'H' Division - on Leman Street itself. From the twisted debris of the crash emerge clues that uncover long hidden deceits. These crimes threaten not only to destroy Reid's iron grip on 'H' Division, but to unravel his...
8) DCI Banks
Publisher
BBC Studios
Language
English
Description
Stephen Tompkinson returns as the tenacious and stubborn Detective Alan Banks in three more chilling crime stories. As this series opens, Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks must learn to work with dramatic changes to his team. Detective Annie Cabbot is off on maternity leave soon to be replaced by the impossible-to-read Helen Morton.
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Language
English
Description
"A stunning, intricate narrative about a notorious killing in Northern Ireland and its devastating repercussions. In December 1972, Jean McConville, a thirty-eight-year-old mother of ten, was dragged from her Belfast home by masked intruders, her children clinging to her legs. They never saw her again. Her abduction was one of the most notorious episodes of the vicious conflict known as The Troubles. Everyone in the neighborhood knew the I.R.A. was...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
1930s. In the depths of the Great Depression, Cleveland was terrorized by over a dozen bodies found scattered around the city. The bodies were dismembered with surgical precision and drained of blood. Cleveland's mayor turned to his newly appointed director of public safety: Eliot Ness. Stashower uncovers the story of Ness's hunt for the sadistic killer-- called the Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run, who was able to hide in plain sight. -- adapted from...
11) Maisie Raine
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Detective Inspector Maisie Raine is a no-nonsense policewoman with years of experience and an instinct for people in trouble. Though she can be forceful and difficult to work with, her warmth, determination and sense of fun have won her a great deal of respect and affection. Like any busy inner-city station, Bessomer Street has its fair share of murders, muggings and mysteries.
12) American dirt
Author
Language
English
Description
"Lydia Quixano Perez lives in the Mexican city of Acapulco. She runs a bookstore. She has a son, Luca, the love of her life, and a wonderful husband who is a journalist. And while there are cracks beginning to show in Acapulco because of the drug cartels, her life is, by and large, fairly comfortable. Even though she knows they'll never sell, Lydia stocks some of her all-time favorite books in her store. And then one day a man enters the shop to browse...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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Description
In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage Indian nation in Oklahoma. After oil was discovered beneath their land, they rode in chauffeured automobiles, built mansions, and sent their children to study in Europe. Then, one by one, the Osage began to be killed off. The family of an Osage woman, Mollie Burkhart, became a prime target. Her relatives were shot and poisoned. And it was just the beginning, as more...
14) True crime Japan: thieves, rascals, killers and dope heads : true stories from a Japanese courtroom
Author
Publisher
Tuttle Publishing
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"A middle-aged carpenter beats his 91-year old mother to death and goes to work the following day, leaving the body for his wife to find. An 82-year old woman is jailed for 10 months for stealing fried chicken. Like nearly all defendants in Japan, they both plead guilty. What happens between plea and sentencing is the subject of True Crime Japan. In this fascinating crime book journalist and longtime Japan resident Paul Murphy provides a glimpse of...
Author
Series
Nick Mason novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Nick Mason is out of prison. After five years inside, he has just been given the one thing a man facing 25-to-life never gets, a second chance. But it comes at a terrible price. Nick Mason is out of prison, but he's not free. Whenever his cell phone rings, day or night, he must answer it and follow whatever order he is given. It's the deal he made with Darius Cole, a criminal kingpin serving a double-life term who still runs an empire from his prison...
16) Cold Case Files
Publisher
A&E
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Bill Kurtis hosts "COLD CASE FILES," in which forensic evidence is used to re-examine real criminal cases that have long been considered cold.
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Celebrating her forty-fifth birthday at her local pub, popular podcaster Alix Summers crosses paths with an unassuming woman called Josie Fair. Josie, it turns out, is also celebrating her forty-fifth birthday. They are, in fact, birthday twins. A few days later, Alix and Josie bump into each other again, this time outside Alix's children's school. Josie has been listening to Alix's podcasts and thinks she might be an interesting subject for her...
Publisher
ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Sarah Weinman brings together an exemplary collection of thirteen recent true crime tales by some of the most exciting journalists and chroniclers of crime working today. With an introduction by Patrick Radden Keefe, this collection showcases true crime writing across the broadest possible spectrum and reflects on why crime stories are so transfixing and irresistible to the modern reader" --
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Language
English
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"From the prize-winning, New York Times bestselling author of Say Nothing and Empire Of Pain, twelve enthralling stories of skulduggery and intrigue by one of the most decorated journalists of our time "I read everything he writes. Every time he writes a book, I read it. Every time he writes an article, I read it ... he's a national treasure."--Rachel Maddow. Patrick Radden Keefe has garnered prizes ranging from the National Magazine Award to the...
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English
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The dead can tell us all about themselves: where they came from, how they lived, how they died, and, of course, who killed them. Forensic scientists can unlock the mysteries of the past and help serve justice using the messages left by a corpse, a crime scene, or the faintest of human traces. This book draws on interviews with some of these top-level professionals, ground-breaking research, and McDermid's own original interviews and firsthand experience...
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