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1) The First 48
Publisher
A&E®
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 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...
Publisher
BBC Studios
Language
English
Description
Now an established team, Lynley and Havers get to work on four new crime mysteries. Solving their professional problems is easier than sorting out their personal lives. Still hurting from the marriage of the love of his life to his best friend, Lynley turns to Helen Clyde for comfort. Meanwhile, Havers' father is on his deathbed and she finds it increasingly difficult to cope with her mother, who has Alzheimer's Disease.
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.
9) Maisie Raine
Publisher
BBC Studios
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.
10) Mr. Untouchable
Author
Language
English
Description
The true-life story of a Harlem's notorious Nicky Barnes, a junkie turned multimillionaire drug-lord, MR. UNTOUCHABLE takes its audience deep inside the heroin industry of the 1970s. The most powerful black drug kingpin in New York City history, Barnes came from humble beginnings to make himself and his comrades rich beyond their wildest dreams, ultimately reaching national infamy in 1977 when the New York Times put him on the front cover of their...
Author
Series
Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees volume 2
Language
English
Description
Live, laugh, shed blood. Dexter meets Richard Scarry's Busy, Busy Town in this twisted debut graphic novel! Don't. Murder. The locals. This is small-town serial killer, upstanding citizen, and adorable brown bear Samantha Strong's cardinal rule. After all, there's a sea of perfectly ripe potential victims in the big city just beyond the forest, and when you've worked as hard as Sam to build a cozy life and a thriving business in a community surrounded...
Author
Publisher
VLB
Language
Undetermined
Description
En commettant un crime, il venait de réveiller une force qu'il ne se connaissait pas, une lointaine lignée de bafoués qui se serait enfin libérée à travers lui. Un sentiment d'accomplissement l'enivrait. Entre l'effroi et la quiétude, l'euphorie et l'angoisse, Morneau frissonnait de tout son corps à seulement imaginer qu'il avait ôté la vie d'un homme, qu'il avait réussi quelque chose, qu'il avait, pour une fois, servi une juste...
Author
Language
Undetermined
Description
Plus de mille ans ont passé depuis l'avènement du premier homme qui n'avait pas de nombril. De simple curiosité de la nature, les humains sans ombilic en sont venus à former la majorité dominante de l'humanité. Ils gouvernent désormais la planète, devenue méconnaissable à cause des changements climatiques. À quelques jours du déclenchement de la campagne électorale mondiale, la première gouverneure de l'État Unique entend...
Author
Language
Undetermined
Description
Ce polar, au ton ludique, est porté par la truculence de Bérénice Fontaine, soupçonnée d'être l'instigatrice d'un complot au lac Brôme, où un cadavre a été découvert. Roman policier ? Thriller psychologique ? Un récit plein de rebondissements et de surprises. Un humour décapant. Une intrigue solide et bien ficelée. Vous n'êtes qu'un gnouf, sergent-détective Lévesque ! Vous regardez mes victimes et vous êtes assailli...
15) LAZY BIRD
Author
Series
Publisher
Québec Amérique
Language
Undetermined
Description
L'auteure qui a signé Bondrée, lauréat du prix Arthur Ellis, du prix Saint-Pacôme ainsi que d'un prix littéraire du Gouverneur général, propose avec Lazy Bird une autre incursion au sud de la frontière américaine, suivant ici les traces de Bob Richard, mélomane albinos talonné par la mort. Qui est cette Lazy Bird qu'il croisera sur sa route ? Un oiseau rare ou un oiseau de malheur ? Une pièce musicale de John Coltrane ou une...
Author
Publisher
De Marque, Inc
Language
Undetermined
Description
La Mercedes noire du PDG s'immobilisa près du jet qui attendait. En ce soir du printemps 2042, Alex Armstrong jubilait. La réussite de son entreprise d'extraction d'hélium-3 sur la Lune était totale. Mais tout ça ne constituait qu'une grosse machine à imprimer de l'argent, dans le but de financer l'autre projet. Le seul qui comptait vraiment à ses yeux. Pas si loin de là, dans une vieille grange réaménagée en salle de culte,...
Author
Publisher
Recto-Verso
Language
Undetermined
Description
Contraint par le richissime Kurt Goldstein à subtiliser de grandes oeuvres d'art à différentes époques, Patrick profite de ses voyages dans le temps pour préparer sa revanche sur ceux qui l'ont trahi. Mais se délivrer d'aussi lourdes chaînes ne sera pas chose facile... En parallèle, trois femmes chercheront aussi à se libérer de l'emprise de Goldstein et son groupe. Il deviendra vite évident que l'avenir de l'agent Patrick passera...
18) Cold Case Files
Publisher
A&E
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
Undetermined
Description
Après avoir rappelé les origines de la Cosa Nostra, l'auteur aborde la réalité du crime organisé en une succession de chapitres thématiques : la structure organisationnelle; les modes de recrutement; le code et les règles de conduite; les territoires et zones d'influence; les activités criminelles; le système judiciaire interne propre à la mafia; le meurtre comme outil tactique et stratégique. Contexte nord-américain. [SDM]....
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