Summary: Three crime dramas based on the best selling novels by Henning Mankell. They follow Inspector Kurt Wallander, a disillusioned everyman, as he struggles against a rising tide of violence in southern Sweden.
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Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2009
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD WAL NOT RATEDSummary: Thrilling mystery tales about the brooding and disillusioned Inspector Kurt Wallander, set in the beautiful landscape of southern Sweden. In Faceless killers, an elderly couple are attacked at an isolated farmhouse and the town witnesses an outbreak of racist violence. In The man who smiled, Wallander is contacted by an old acquaintance who is suspicious about his father's death. In The fifth...
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Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2010
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD WAL NOT RATEDSummary: In The White Lioness, Wallander is drawn into the case of a missing Swedish national while attending a police conference in South Africa. The second film sees Wallander back in Sweden, where a woman's body is discovered half buried in the forest swamps. And in The Troubled Man, Wallander is in a race against time as he embarks on his final case - the disappearance of his daughter's father-in-law.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD NOT RATEDSummary: A police detective suffering from cancer makes a deal with an informant to get killed in the line of duty, so his family can receive the hefty death benefits from the department.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2023
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1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD CONSummary: Inspector Morse is a melancholy, enigmatic and romantic man who never uses his first name and who finds solace in real ale, classical music and difficult crosswords. Together with his able Sergeant Lewis, Morse uses his condierable intellect and passion for the truth and justice to investigate death and murder in the English university town of Oxford. (Second time around) The murder of a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: BFS Entertainment & Multimedia Ltd. 2011
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV INSSummary: The cozy villages of Midsomer County reveal their most sinister secrets in these contemporary British television mysteries.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2010
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Summary: Linda Wallander's first job as a police officer is complicated by her father's presence on the police force, until Linda's childhood friend disappears, forcing the father and daughter to work together and find the missing girl before it is too late.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MANSummary: Calcutta: Neale and Pedro fly cargo between Chungking and Calcutta. When their buddy Bill is murdered they investigate. Neale meets Bill's fiancée Virginia and becomes suspicious of a deeper plot while also falling for her charms.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY CRIME/MYSTERY FILSummary: Complete 4th season of the television crime drama about a squad of youthful looking undercover police officers who specialize in youth crime.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mill Creek Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD 21Fowler, Christopher
Summary: Near the Tower of London, along the River Thames, the body of a woman has been discovered chained to a stone post and left to drown. Curiously, only one set of footprints leads to the tragic spot. "The Bride in the Tide," as the London press gleefully dubs her, has the PCU stumped. Why wouldn't the killer simply dump her body in the river--as so many do? Arthur Bryant wonders if the answer lies...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FOWFowler, Christopher.
Summary: "No case is too curious for Arthur Bryant and John May, London's most ingenious detectives. But with their beloved city engulfed in turmoil, they'll have to work fast to hold a sinister killer's feet to the fire. In the week before Guy Fawkes Night, London's peaceful streets break out in sudden unrest. Enraged by a scandal involving a corrupt financier accused of insider trading, demonstrators...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FOWMeloni, Christopher.
Summary: The New York City police special victims unit investigates a number of sex crimes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2007
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Summary: In Charlotte, einer Provinzstadt in North Carolina, hat man es mit dem Gesetz noch nie so genau genommen. Nur zwei ebenso unbestechliche wie attraktive Frauen sorgen für Recht und Ordnung: Deputy Chief Virginia West und Chief Judy Hammer. Als eine Serie brutaler Morde die Stadt erschüttert, gerät der schwelende Konflikt zwischen Polizei und Stadt zu einer lebensgefährlichen Zerreißprobe.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Goldmann 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 438.4 FIC CORSummary: A corrupted police officer is in line for a promotion and will stop at nothing to get what he wants. While solving a brutal murder, he makes sure to turn his colleagues against one another to ruin their ambitions. By stealing their wives and exposing their secrets the cop starts to lose himself in the web of deceit he created.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA FILSummary: 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: Van der Valk and the team return for a second compelling season of murder investigations set against the stunning backdrop of Amsterdam and its contrasting worlds.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV VANSummary: Doctored evidence. Signora Battestini is dead and to everyone who knew her, it wasn't a moment too soon. Her impoverished Romanian cleaning lady gets pegged for the crime and Brunetti's boss declares the case closed. What continues to mystify Brunetti is why the old woman had so much money with no visible means of income. And what exactly has her lawyer done with her many scattered bank...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bavaria Media 2011
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV DONSummary: In an economically devastated Pennsylvania steel town, a complicated and compromised chief of police is forced to decide how far he's willing to go when the son of the woman he loves is accused of murder. A harrowing journey into the lives of a small town with big secrets, where people are driven by loyalty, love, and desperation, and bad choices come far too easy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022