Summary: This classic film noir concentrates on interrelated episodes in the lives of several London policemen. Aveteran cop is murdered by small-time delinquents Tom Riley and Spud. Rookie cop Andy Mitchell, who looked up to the veteran policeman as a father figure, embarks on a perilous search to bring his mentor's killers to justice. Shot in a pioneering semi-documentary style by Gordon Dines (Pool...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY BLUSummary: In South Boston, the state police force are waging a war on Irish-American organized crime. Undercover cop Billy Costigan is assigned to infiltrate the mob syndicate, which is run by gangland chief Frank Costello. Billy quickly gains Costello's confidence. But when it becomes clear to both the mob and the police that there are moles in their midst, Billy and the other mole are suddenly thrust...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Departed 2007Summary: The girl of his dreams : A ten-year-old Roma girl is found dead in a Venetian Canal. Commissario Brunetti goes to the encampment where she lived, but his attempts to speak with the community there are futile. When he learns who had befriended the victim and her little brother, he begins to understand the community's silence. It also explains why he's hit obstacles preventing the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: MHZ Networks Home Entertainment 2013
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV DONViard, Karin
Summary: A tight-knit team of officers working in the Child Protection Unit in Paris cope with the pressures of the job and their personal lives.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MPI Home Video 2012
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN POLGeorge, Elizabeth
Summary: On compassionate leave after the murder of his wife, Thomas Lynley is called back to Scotland Yard when the body of a woman is found stabbed and abandoned in an isolated London cemetery. While Lynley works on the case in London, his former colleagues Barbara Havers and Winston Nkata follow the murder trail south to the New Forest--and to an outcome that is both tragic and shocking.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollinsPublishers 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GEOCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M GEOSummary: "Centers on a revolutionary machine that allows scientists to enter and record a subject's dream. After it is stolen, a fearless detective and a brilliant therapist join forces to recover the device before it falls into the hands of a 'dream terrorist'"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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1 available in Anime, Call number: DVD ANIME PAPSummary: In the criminal justice system, sexually based crimes such as rape, torture, pedophilia, and child abuse are dealt with in New York City by a special unit of the police department known as the Special Victims Unit.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV LAWSummary: The Coen Brothers Best Picture Oscar Nominee transforms into the season's most talked about TV debut. It features a new "true crime" story and new characters, all chilled in the trademark dry wit, murderous mayhem and "Minnesota nice" of the original classic film. Lorne Malvo, is a manipulative master criminal who changes the life of insurance salesmen Lester Nygaard. Gus Grimly and Molly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV FARPatterson, James
Summary: Detective Tom Moon and his multi-talented team face off against an international crime ring looking to seize control of America's most vibrant city, Miami. The city of Miami is Detective Tom Moon's back yard. He's always kept it local, attending University of Miami on a football scholarship, and, as a Miami PD officer, protecting the city's most vulnerable. Now, as the new leader of an FBI task...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2020
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction Patterson 2020Leon, Donna
Summary: "In his many years as a commissario, Guido Brunetti has seen all manner of crime and known intuitively how to navigate the various pathways in his native city, Venice, to discover the person responsible. Now, in Transient Desires, the thirtieth novel in Donna Leon's masterful series, he faces a heinous crime committed outside his jurisdiction. He is drawn in innocently enough: two young...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M LEOSummary: Every police precinct has a case that defies explanation and evades solution. Recently promoted Captain Yohan Vivès faces such an elusive mystery when he investigates the gruesome murder of a young woman named Clara in the French town of Grenoble. It is clear that the attack was premeditated, and the violent nature of the crime suggests revenge. All the evidence points towards a scorned...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN NIGDe Becker, Gavin
Summary: Covering all the dangerous situations people typically face -- street crime, domestic abuse, violence in the workplace -- de Becker provides real-life examples and offers specific advice on restraining orders, self-defense, and more. But the key to self-protection, he demonstrates, is learning how to trust -- and act on -- our own intuitions.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Back Bay Books/Little, Brown and Company 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Will Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks and Detective Sergeant Annie Cabbot ever get their relationship together? Or will three wrenching crimes and the investigation of Detective Investigator Helen Morton keep them forever out of sync? Welcome back to the hit crime series set in a bucolic Yorkshire town, where you would never expect social workers to abduct a young boy ... never imagine...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed in the USA and Canada by Warner Home Video 2015
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV DCISummary: Pittsburgh corporate lawyer Nick Fallin's high life has gotten the best of him. Arrested for drug use, he is sentenced to 1,500 hours of community service. He must now squeeze those hours into his 24/7 cutthroat world of mergers, acquisitions, and board meetings. Reluctantly, he is now a part-time child advocate at Legal Aid Services, where one case after another is an eye-opening instance of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2009
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Place a hold to request this item.Kellerman, Faye.
Summary: A woman is raped in a Yeshiva community. Detective Peter Decker teams with the religious Rina Lazarous in an effort to solve the crime.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperAudio 2007
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC KELSummary: Join the team in this seventeenth year as they tirelessly pursue compelling cases in all 23 episodes, including a must-see crossover event with Chicago P.D.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV LAWBlack, Wayne
Summary: "Is your child safe at school? Who makes the decisions about your child's safety and security when you send them off to school each day? What does a truly safe school look like? Does your school have an adequate security plan? How can we prevent the unthinkable?... In this comprehensive guidebook for parents and professionals, Wayne Black utilizes over forty-five years of security experience in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viva Editions, an imprint of Start Midnight 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 371.7 BLASummary: Bait: A tale of deception and seduction, directed by and starring Hugo Haas features three people searching for a lost gold mine: the dangerous Marko, young miner Ray and the comely Peggy. As Marko and Ray search for the mine, Peggy arrives, stirring Ray's passion and igniting Marko's suspicion. As months pass, the three find themselves closing in on the mine, but the tension between them is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY CRIME/MYSTERY NOIHarrod-Eagles, Cynthia
Summary: "When one of London's best-known literary agents is found dead in strange circumstances, having fallen headlong from his office window, DCI Slider is under pressure from the Borough Commander to confirm a case of accidental death. But when the evidence points to murder, Slider and his team find themselves uncovering some decidedly scandalous secrets in the suave and successful Ed Wiseman's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HARSlaughter, Karin
Summary: Fifteen years ago, Sara Linton's life changed forever when a celebratory night out ended in a violent attack that tore her world apart. Since then, Sara has remade her life. A successful doctor, engaged to a man she loves, she has finally managed to leave the past behind her. Until one evening, on call in the ER, everything changes. Sara battles to save a broken young woman who's been brutally...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2023
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Summary: What started as a hashtag in 2013 quickly grew into the Black Lives Matter movement. Black Lives Matter examines the police shootings that fueled the movement, the events that led up to racial tensions in the United States, and the goals the movement has set for the future. Easy-to-read text, vivid images, and helpful back matter give readers a clear look at this subject. Features include a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Core Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing 2018
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J305.8960 HARWalker, 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