Summary: In Season One, Pearl juggled her commitments to the restaurant the eponymous Whitstable Pearl with her side hustle as a PI. In Season Two, Pearl prioritizes her detective work and transition from being a chef who solves crimes to a full-time investigator who just happens to own a restaurant. Pearl's cases overlap with DCI Mike McGuire's police investigations. Their relationship is charged by a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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5 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV WHICopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV WHISummary: Officer Nick Barron patrols the streets of Montreal with Station 19's newest officer, Ben Chartier. Back on the job after temporary leave, guilt-ridden Nick immediately clashes with overzealous Ben, but the two form an uneasy partnership. While responding to some of the city's most bizarre and violent crimes, the two officers learn the high cost of life on the force, both on and off duty.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn 2016
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV NINSummary: When an Australian aid-worker is kidnapped by Muslim extremists, a high-stakes race to save his life pits East against West in these exciting new episodes. From the island of Mindanao in the Philippines to Melbourne, Jack Irish is caught in a global web of religious zealotry among right-wing Christians and media-savvy jihadists.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn 2016
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV JACSummary: Detective Inspector Mike Shepherd arrives on assignment in Brokenwood, a small town where memories--and animosities--run deep. He's an experienced cop with a 1971 "classic" car, a collection of country music cassettes, and an indeterminate number of ex-wives. The new woman in his life is his assistant, Detective Constable Kristin Sims a by-the-book investigator nearly twenty years younger than...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV BROCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV Series Brokenwood 2015Summary: In the sleepy town of Brokenwood, New Zealand, the affable residents may seem harmless, but killers, blackmailers, and thieves lurk in every picturesque corner. To quell the community's alarming murder rate, Detective Mike Shepherd uses an unconventional style that contrasts with the methodical approach of his partner, Detective Kristin Sims, and the eager assistance of DC Sam Breen.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV BROSummary: Set in September and October 1940, Michael Kitchen stars as quietly enigmatic detective Christopher Foyle, whose territory on the south coast of England is rocked by the chaos and danger of World War II.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Acorn Media 2009
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV FOYSummary: Zane Malik is a young detective at the Major Crime Squad in Sydney, Australia. He's also a Muslim, in a post - 9/11 world where such an identity automatically arouses suspicion and fear. He's a good husband and father and a dedicated cop with one main problem on the job: Detective Sergeant Ray Crowley. Crowley's an old school policeman for whom rules and regulations play a poor second to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV EASSummary: When an Australian aid-worker is kidnapped by Muslim extremists, a high-stakes race to save his life pits East against West in these exciting new episodes. From the island of Mindanao in the Philippines to Melbourne, Jack Irish is caught in a global web of religious zealotry among right-wing Christians and media-savvy jihadists.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV JACSummary: A contemporary Australian detective drama about retired cop Alexa Crowe. With her old boss regularly asking for her insight on cold cases and a young police data-analyst eager to be mentored, whether Alexa wants to or not, Alexa can't seem to stop solving crime.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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3 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV MYSummary: Janet is seconded from a case of psychological abuse in the armed services to head up a Royal Commission into gun crime. Conscripting solicitors Richard and Lina, and the ambitious Owen Ramsey, Janet trades the rarefied atmosphere of mahogany courtrooms, wigs, and gowns for plain clothes and a community hall. There, she and her team focus on the murder of 25-year-old Hani Akvan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV JANSummary: The critically acclaimed Canadian drama returns for its fourth and final season, finding Nick determined to move forward and Ben fighting to keep his faith in justice, and in himself.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV NINSummary: The squad in Station nineteen struggle to recover from the revelation of the identity of the mole. As their commander scrambles to save his own career, the patrollers reach for connection to each other. Nick, still rocked by guilt over his involvement in a murder, seeks closure by trying to find out what happened to his missing cousin Kaz. Ben finds love and happiness with Nick's sister,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV NINSummary: "The "wickedly offbeat" (Parade), contemporary mystery series follows the adventures of newly promoted Detective Sergeant Matilda Stone and her three crime-writing aunts as they solve murders in the picturesque English region of Wildemarsh. Though Matilda's strict boss warns her that homicides are police-only matters, her aunts can't help but offer their expertise, as well as unsolicited dating...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV QUESummary: Leading New Scotland Yard's Murder Review Team has Commander Clare Blake feeling trapped in her office. Eager to get back to investigative work, Blake welcomes a transfer to the Homicide and Serious Crime division, where she's assigned to a slate of difficult cases. Ambitious, imperious, and dedicated, Blake keeps her private life separate from her work, until two deeply personal crimes...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2018
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV COMSummary: The eight season moves into the 1970s, with DCI George Gently facing retirement. In the opening episode Gently discovers the victim's wife was convicted of the murder eight years ago, he decides to re-open the case; a controversial move. But DI Bacchus opposes Gently's decision, not least because he worked as a DS on the original investigation and putting mentor and protégé at complete odds.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV GEOSummary: "The English village mystery gets a contemporary spin in this hit British television series that has earned a worldwide following. Bucolic settings harbor macabre crimes and eccentric characters that are no match for DCI John Barnaby; his assistant, DS Jamie Winter; and new pathologist, Dr. Fleur Perkins."--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV MIDSummary: Drastic changes are in store for the women at Wentworth Prison as the hit Australian drama returns. In Season Two, Bea languishes in solitary, plotting revenge for her daughter's murder, while Franky runs the prison unopposed. But the arrival of sadistic new governor Joan Ferguson threatens Franky's top-dog status. With Franky's contraband operation in her crosshairs, Ferguson attempts to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn 2017
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV WENSummary: In 1920s London, brutal and bloodthirsty murder has stained the plush carpets of a handsome London townhouse. The victim is the glamorous and rich Emily French. All the evidence points to Leonard Vole, a young chancer to whom the heiress left her vast fortune and who ruthlessly took her life. At least, this is the story that Emily's dedicated housekeeper Janet Mcintyre stands by in court....
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV WITSummary: Literature professor Harriet 'Harry' Wild is adjusting to retirement when she's mugged. While recovering at the home of her son, a detective in the Dublin police, Harry gleans a clue for his current case. But when she's rebuffed, Harry decides to solve the crime herself. Recruiting an unlikely young sidekick, she finds a new path as a private investigator.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A woman lies dead in an Antwerp apartment; nearby, a suicide bomber detonates his device at a fashion show. In Ireland, Detective Emer Berry of the Criminal Assets Bureau finds rough diamonds in a raid on a small-time drug dealer, along with the deed to that luxury Antwerp flat. When she heads to Belgium to investigate, Emer is confronted by Chief Inspector Christian de Jong of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Detective Murdoch and his team tackle cases involving a seemingly invisible man, the political killing of a French diplomat, a possible alien invasion, and one of their own suspected of murder. Along the way, they encounter the greatest minds of the time, including architect Frank Lloyd Wright, entrepreneur Elizabeth Arden, and inventor Nikola Tesla.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2019
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV MURCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV MurdochSummary: DI Vivienne Deering returns to work from bereavement leave after her husband's death, but only Viv's impulsive subordinate, DC Dinah Kowalska, knows the brutal truth of what really happened to him. Then in her first week back, a bomb blast at a funeral plunges Deering and her team headfirst into a gang war inflamed by a crime family matriarch who is just as ferocious as Deering herself.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV NOSummary: Emmy Award-winner Guy Pearce reprises his iconic role as Jack Irish, former criminal lawyer, and part-time debt collector, with a penchant for getting wrapped up in things he shouldn₂t. The long-suppressed trauma of Isabel Irish₂s brutal and random murder by Jack's former client Wayne Milovich which launched the first Jack Irish installment, Bad Debts rears its ugly head when Jack discovers...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021