Summary: Inspired by a true story, The Staircase follows writer and war veteran Michael Peterson after the suspicious death of his wife Kathleen. On December 9, 2001, Michael makes a frantic 911 call reporting Kathleen has fallen down the stairs of their Durham, NC home. But when the district attorney brings murder charges, members of Michael's blended family must choose whose side they're on and which...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV STASummary: This season takes novelist-turned-detective, Jessica Fletcher, from not-so-sleepy Cabot Cove to the dangerous bright lights of New York City and beyond. From uncovering false fortune seekers to tracking down two-faced killers, Jessica is always there to catch the culprit and pen the final solution to the case.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV MURCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV Mu 5Summary: TV legend Angela Lansbury returns to her acclaimed and admired role as mystery writer Jessica Fletcher in all 21 entertaining episodes. Loaded with the shocking surprises and clever storylines that fans of this 41-time Primetime Emmy-nominated and 16-time Golden Globe-nominated series have come to expect.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2009
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A peasant girl is raped and murdered in 14th century Sweden. When her killers seek shelter in her father's house, he kills them to avenge her death. Soon a spring appears from where the girl was killed and her father sees this as a sign from above.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2006
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Two retired, down-on-their luck outlaws pick up their guns one last time to collect a bounty offered by the vengeful prostitutes of the remote Wyoming town of Big Whiskey.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2002
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN UNFSummary: I shot Jesse James: After years of crime reporting and writing pulp novels and screenplays, Samuel Fuller made his directorial debut with the lonesome ballad of Robert Ford who fatally betrayed his friend, the notorious Jesse James.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2007
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DRAMA FIRSummary: Includes 7 Steven Kings classics, over 19 hours of thrills & chills.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD STECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV StephenSummary: From out of the shadows comes this final collection of hard-to-find noir classics: The Crimson Kimono (1959); The Lineup (1958); The Shadow in the Window (1956); The Long Haul (1957); Pickup Alley (1957); The Tijuana Story (1957); She Played with Fire (1957); The Case Against Brooklyn (1958); and Man on a String (1960).
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY CRIME/MYSTERY NOISummary: The biggest cases demand the best cops, so when a little girl goes missing or a Homeland Security official takes a long drive off a short cliff or a '90s serial killer revives his career in the 21st century, the LAPD knows to call Brenda Johnson and her crack team from the Priority Homicide Division.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2008
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Prentice is searching for his long lost uncle who disappeared without a trace. When he discovers clues on a computer disc containing some of his uncle's notes to a novel, he embarks on a complex journey through his family's secretive past. No matter how shocking or dangerous his quest becomes, he is determined to find the answers and solve what turns out to be a ghastly mystery.
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Publisher / Publication Date: BFS Video 2007
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV CROSummary: In desperate need of money, Isaac accepts a job looking after his landlord's niece, Olga, for a few days. He discovers there is a catch: he must wear a leather harness and chain that restricts his movements to certain rooms in order to protect Olga's extremely frail mental state. Once left alone with Isaac, Olga exhibits erratic behavior while Isaac makes horrific discoveries in the house that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR CAVSummary: Set in Glasgow, Scotland, Detective Chief Inspector Jim Taggart is a tough, sarcastic copper in the Maryhill Police Department. Root of evil: Taggart and Jardine struggle to decipher the clues of pollen, a hanky, and an axe in the brutal murders of merciless local loan sharks. Double jeopardy: A woman's body is discovered in the woods-- an apparent suicide, but Taggart senses murder when he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: BFS Entertainment & Multimedia 2010
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV TAGEllis, Kat
Summary: "When someone close to Ava Thorn is brutally murdered and Ava becomes the primary suspect, she starts to wonder if ghostly legends surrounding her town might be more fact than fiction"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ELLSummary: Seeking revenge for the death of his love, secret agent James Bond sets out to stop an environmentalist from taking control of a country's water supply.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY ACTION/ADVENTURE QUASummary: Domestic disturbance: A divorced father discovers that his 11-year-old son's new stepfather is not what he made himself out to be. The father's investigation into the man's past explodes into a terrifying mission to rescue his son from danger.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2013
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD TRAReyes, Ana
Summary: Armed with only hazy memories, a woman who long ago witnessed her friend's sudden, mysterious death, and has since spent her life trying to forget, sets out to track down answers. What she uncovers, deep in the woods, is hardly to be believed... Maya was a high school senior when her best friend, Aubrey, mysteriously dropped dead in front of the enigmatic man named Frank whom they'd been...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: They met in the dark: Discharged for treason, a former Navy commander sets out to expose the espionage ring that destroyed his career.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kino Lorber 2015
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY BRICopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE BRISummary: Now that Jesse Stone has settled in as Paradise's police chief, he has to solve the grisly murder of a teenage girl. The investigation uncovers abuse and even leads him to a conflict with a Boston mob.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVDCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Je 3Summary: Wild horses: Texas Ranger Samantha Payne reopens a 15-year-old missing person case and uncovers evidence that suggests the boy was likely murdered on a ranch belonging to wealthy family man Scott Briggs. Samantha will stop at nothing to discover the truth about the boy's death - even putting her own life in jeopardy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Summary: People know a teenager like Charlie Crabtree. A dark imagination, a sinister smile, always on the outside of the group. Some part of them suspected he might be capable of doing something awful. Twenty-five years ago, Crabtree did just that, committing murder so shocking that it's attracted that strange kind of infamy that only exists on the darkest corners of the internet, and inspired more...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Audio 2020
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC NORSummary: Based on the 2011 murder of Betsy Faria that resulted in her husband, Russ' conviction. When his conviction was overturned, the crime set off a chain of events that exposed a diabolical scheme deeply involving Pam Hupp.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV THICopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV THISummary: Jesse Stone is a down-and-out former L.A. police detective whose biggest battle is now against the bottle, as the demons of his past rise to haunt him while he drives himself to distraction by pursuing a decade-old murder case. Finding refuge in the small town of Paradise, Chief Stone reopens an unsolved murder case, digging up clues in an old grave and pursuing the ghosts of a forgotten crime....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Je 4Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE JESCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Jesse 2008Fleming, Candace
Summary: How did two teenagers brutally murder an innocent child ... and why? And how did their brilliant lawyer save them from the death penalty in 1920s Chicago? Written by a prolific master of narrative nonfiction, this is a compulsively readable true-crime story based on an event dubbed the "crime of the century." In 1924, eighteen-year-old college students Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb made a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anne Schwartz Books 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 364.152 FLECopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 364.152 FLESummary: Death In a strange country. The body of a young man found floating in a Venetian canal has been stripped of all valuables, except for a very visible packet of cocaine. When the man is identified as a health inspector at the U.S. military base in nearby Vicenza, Brunetti's boss Patta gets worried about political reverberations and is eager to dismiss the case as a drug-related murder.--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bavaria Media 2011