Summary: In this darkly comic French crime series wheelchair-bound police captain Fred Cain is quicker and more mobile than most able-bodied people. In his investigations, he spins circles around suspects and digs deep inside the darkest hidden corners of the human mind. A motorcycle accident caused by speeding and his own use of narcotics has left him unable to walk, but clear-eyed about criminality...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV CAISummary: In this darkly comic French crime series wheelchair-bound police captain Fred Cain is quicker and more mobile than most able-bodied people. In his investigations, he spins circles around suspects and digs deep inside the darkest hidden corners of the human mind. A motorcycle accident caused by speeding and his own use of narcotics has left him unable to walk, but clear-eyed about criminality...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV CAISaracino, Luciano
Summary: In this graphic novel adaptation of Victor Hugo's classic, the ex-convict Jean Valjean strives to build a new life in nineteenth century Paris and protect his adopted daughter, Cosette, but he is pursued by the fanatical police inspector Javert who does not believe in redemption--until it is too late for both of them.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch books, a Capstone imprint 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 SARWalker, Martin
Summary: Attending the lavish birthday celebration of a World War II hero, police chief Bruno becomes intimately tangled in the family's dynamics when one of their close friends dies under suspicious circumstances.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2015
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Summary: This is a new translation of Georges Simenon's gripping tale of lost identity. This is book sixteen in the new Penguin Maigret series. A man picked up for wandering in obvious distress among the cars and buses on the Grands Boulevards. Questioned in French, he remains mute ...A madman? In Maigret's office, he is searched. His suit is new, his underwear is new, his shoes are new. All identifying...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SIMWalker, Martin J.
Summary: Investigating an apparent occult murder during the Easter season in St. Denis, beloved chief of police Bruno discovers links to a troubling real estate proposal, a suspicious accident, and the sudden reappearance of a controversial elderly countess.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2013
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WALSummary: Jean Valjean is a young man accused of stealing. He escapes prison and spends the rest of his life miserable and being chased by one man: a policeman named Javert.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MISSimenon, Georges
Summary: "Maigret and his wife takes a much needed holiday to Vichy, where they quickly become used to the slower pace of life. When a woman, who they regularly pass by on their daily strolls, is murdered Maigret can't help but offer his assistance to the local Inspector, a former colleague of Maigret's."--Publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SIMSummary: Harry the dirty dog: Harry runs away before bath time. When he returns home covered in mud, his family doesn't recognize him. Officer Buckle and Gloria: When Officer Buckle tries to share his safety tips, nobody listens - until he's partnered with a police dog named Gloria. Angus and the ducks: A curious Scotch terrier decides to investigate the strange noise coming from the other side of the hed
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Publisher / Publication Date: Weston Woods 2002
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV HARWalker, Martin
Summary: "When a musician's new song hits a political nerve, he finds himself in the crosshairs of Spanish nationalists' ire, and it's up to Bruno to track down the extremists who seem ready to take deadly measures, in another delightful installment of the internationally acclaimed series featuring Bruno, Chief of Police. Les Troubadours, a folk music group that Bruno has long supported, go viral with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2022
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Summary: Si on aime l'insolite tant dans l'intrigue que chez les personnages, voici un roman policier tráes âecrit et rempli de digressions divertissantes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Editions J'ai lu 2004
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 468 VAR FRENCHVargas, Fred.
Summary: When strange blue chalk circles start appearing overnight on the pavements of Paris, the press take up the story with amusement and psychiatrists trot out their theories. Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg, a policeman, is alone in thinking that this is not a game and far from amusing.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Editions J'ai lu 2008
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1 available in Foreign Language, Call number: 468 VAR FRENCHJames, Peter
Summary: "Detective Superintendent Roy Grace and his Major Crime Team investigate two seemingly unconnected events--the disappearance of a young woman and the discovery of the remains of another young woman who appears to have been dead for thirty years. When another woman goes missing and another body is found, Grace believes Brighton has its first serial killer"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2016
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction JamesWalker, Martin
Summary: "The town of Sarlat is staging a reenactment of its liberation from the British in the Hundred Years War when the play's French hero, Brice Kerquelin, is stabbed and feared fatally wounded. Is it an unfortunate prop malfunction--or something more sinister? The stricken man happens to be number two in the French intelligence service, in line for the top job. Bruno is tasked with the safety of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2023
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Summary: Long-awaited and unseen anywhere for decades, Georges Simenon's Maigret (1960-1963) is the definitive adaptation of Georges Simenon's world famous novels. This BBC television production stars Rupert Davies as Commissaire Jules Maigret, the dogged French detective. Though Simenon₂s books have been adapted many times, Davies₂s celebrated, BAFTA-winning portrayal won the approval of Simenon...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY BRITISH TV MAIGeorge, Elizabeth
Summary: In this novel Inspector Thomas Lynley is mystified when he's sent undercover to investigate the death of Ian Cresswell at the request of the man's uncle, the wealthy and influential Bernard Fairclough. The death has been ruled an accidental drowning, and nothing on the surface indicates otherwise. But when Lynley enlists the help of his friends Simon and Deborah St. James, the trio's digging...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2012
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction George 2012Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS GEOFassin, Didier
Summary: "Adapted from the landmark essay Enforcing Order, this striking graphic novel offers an accessible inside look at policing and how it leads to discrimination and violence. What we know about the forces of law and order often comes from dramatic episodes that make the headlines, or from sensationalized versions for film and television. These gripping accounts can obscure a crucial aspect of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Other Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.2 FASSimenon, Georges
Summary: Supersleuth Maigret investigates the identity of a derelict found murdered and the motive for his death.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1983
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SIMSimenon, Georges
Summary: Inspector Jules Maigret travels from grimy bars to luxury hotels as he traces the true identity of Pietr the Latvian.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2013
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Summary: Une dame âgée est retrouvée morte chez elle. Tout laisse penser à un suicide. Sauf un étrange motif dessiné à proximité de la baignoire. C'est le départ d'une enquête qui va mener Adamsberg et ses hommes dans le Creux, coin perdu des Yvelines, mais aussi en Islande, sur un bout de roche maudit nommé l'île aux Renards et leur faire remonter le temps, à l'époque de la Révolution, et des séances...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flammarion 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 468 VAR FRENCHWalker, Martin
Summary: "A missing woman, a shocking pregnancy, a dash of international intrigue, and a bottle or two of good Bergerac: it's another case for Bruno, Chief of Police. When a British tourist fails to turn up for a luxurious cooking vacation in Bruno's usually idyllic Dordogne village of St. Denis, the worried hostess is quick to call on Bruno for help. Monica Felder is nowhere to be found, and her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2018
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Summary: Une jeune fille assassinée par trois coups de poinçon, un ivrogne qui ne se souvient de rien mais que tout accuse... Pour le commissaire Adamsberg, il n'y a aucun doute : le passé refait surface. Le tueur au trident est de retour. Celui-là même qui avait poignardé la fiancée de Raphaël, le frère du commissaire, des années plus tôt dans leur contrée natale des Pyrénées. Seul hic : l'homme est...
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Publisher / Publication Date: J'ai lu 2013
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1 available in Foreign Language, Call number: 468 VAR FRENCHAlfieri, Annamaria
Summary: It s 1911, and young Vera McIntosh is in love and out of place. Pale and Scottish, a missionary s daughter, she no longer fits in with the Kikuyu with whom she grew up. But she is too African, too native to be welcomed by Kenya s ex-pat community. It s only in Justin Tolliver s arms that Vera feels truly at home. Tolliver, too, is neither fish nor fowl. True, he s the son of an English earl,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Felony & Mayhem Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALFSummary: At the beginning of the third season of this gritty French police thriller, the mutilated body of a young woman is found on an abandoned railway track. Police Captain Laure Berthaud sees the case as an opportunity to restore a tarnished reputation and leads her squad on the hunt for what she believes to be a deranged serial killer. Meanwhile, Judge Roban investigates a bribery scandal involving...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014