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1) The stranger
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume 139
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
Caught in the grip of forces he does not understand, a quiet, ordinary clerk in Algiers commits a murder.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2005
Edition
Widescreen format.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 77 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Victor has messed up his vows during a wedding rehearsal, and is traveling through the woods, reciting his vows. He stops to rest in the woods, and while practicing. He finally gets them right and ceremoniously puts the wedding ring on a finger shaped stick in the ground and says his wedding vows. The
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
223 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"From the best-selling author of Three Strong Women comes a thrilling novel about a triple homicide that dredges up unsettling memories from a lawyer's childhood"--
4) Jindabyne
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 123 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A group of men discover the body of an Aborigine girl in an Australian fishing hole. Instead of reporting the murder right away, they wait until they've filled their coolers with fish. Their inaction sets off a scandal that threatens to tear them apart.
5) Winterkill
Author
Series
Dark Iceland volume 6
Publisher
Orenda Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
225 pages : maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Easter weekend is approaching, and snow is gently falling in Siglufjörður, the northernmost town in Iceland, as crowds of tourists arrive to visit the majestic ski slopes. Ari Thór Arason is now a police inspector, but he's separated from his girlfriend, who lives in Sweden with their three-year-old son. A family reunion is planned for the holiday, but a violent blizzard is threatening and there is an unsettling chill in the air. Three days before...
Series
Publisher
Focus Features
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
Fullscreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 129 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In a remote area of Northern Kenya, activist Tessa Quayle is found brutally murdered. Tessa's companion, a doctor, appears to have fled the scene, and all the evidence points to a crime of passion. Members of the British High Commission in Nairobi assume that Tessa's widower, their mild-mannered and unambitious colleague Justin Quayle, will leave the matter to them. Haunted by remorse and jarred by rumors of his late wife's infidelities, Quayle surprises...
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (340 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Suave, smart, and somewhat strange, Rapha�el Balthazar can make the dead speak like no one else. As a forensic pathologist in Paris, he works with chief inspector H�el�ene Bach to solve the city's most disturbing crimes. But there's one case that continues to haunt him, the murder of his wife over a decade ago.
Publisher
HBO Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Edition
Full screen
Physical Desc
5 videodiscs (ca. 775 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
This unvarnished, highly realistic series follows a single sprawling drug and murder investigation in Baltimore. Told from the point of view of both the police and their targets, where easy distinctions between good and evil are challenged at every turn.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When Myriam, a French-Moroccan lawyer, decides to return to work after having children, she and her husband look for the perfect nanny for their two young children. They never dreamed they would find Louise: a quiet, polite, devoted woman who sings to the children, cleans the family's chic apartment in Paris's upscale tenth arrondissement, stays late without complaint, and hosts enviable kiddie parties. But as the couple and the nanny become more...
10) The future
Author
Publisher
Biblioasis
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
309 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"A woman seeking justice in an imagined Detroit discovers resilience and resistance where she least expects they will be found. Looking for answers, and her missing granddaughters, Gloria moves into the house where her daughter was murdered. A stranger in a Fort-Detroit neighborhood coping with the ongoing effects of racial and economic injustice, she finds herself surrounded by poverty, pollution, violence--as well as the resilience of the residents,...
11) Mystic River
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004], c2003
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 138 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When Jimmy Marcus' daughter is found murdered, his childhood friend Sean Devine is assigned the case. His personal life unraveling, the investigation takes Sean back into a world of violence and pain he thought he'd left behind. It also leads him on a collision course with Jimmy Marcus, a man with his own dark past eager to solve the crime with brutal justice. And then there is Dave Boyle, a man who hides monstrous secrets beneath a bland facade--secrets...
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (517 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
As a forensic pathologist in Paris, Rapha︠l Balthazar can make the dead speak like no one else. He solves the city's most disturbing crimes with no-nonsense chief inspector Hľ̈ne Bach, who, in Series Two, helps him reopen the one case that still haunts him: his wife's murder.
Publisher
Acorn
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (312 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Falsely accused of murder, Balthazar is on the run, while his colleagues at the police and the Forensic Institute have been suspended. When a diabolical killer emerges, Balthazar comes out of hiding to set things right.
Publisher
Acorn TV
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approx. 433 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Devastated by his friend's death, Parisian forensic pathologist Raphaël Balthazar has vowed never to touch a corpse again. But his resolve wavers when he discovers a dead body while sailing, and soon he's working once more with Chief Inspector Hélène Bach, who's closing in on their most elusive suspect: his wife's killer.
15) Dead silence
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007
Edition
[Unrated version] ; widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (1 hr. 31 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After receiving a strange package with the doll named Billy, Jamie's wife is murdered. Destined to find out the truth, Jamie goes to the town of Raven's Fair where the ventriloquist Mary Shaw used to perform and is buried. After she went mad in the 1940s, Mary was accused of kidnapping a young boy who yelled out in one of her performances that she was a fraud. Because of this she was hunted down by townspeople, who in the ultimate act of revenge,...
16) Tip top
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (106 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Two unusual female detectives are tasked with investigating the possibility of police involvement when an informant is murdered.
17) Angels fall
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 95 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
As the sole survivor of a massacre at the Boston restaurant where she was a chef, it's no wonder Reece Gilmore wants to escape her life. She hits the road with no destination in mind, desperately wanted to make a clean start. When her car gives out in a Wyoming town, Reece takes a job a the local diner, hoping to earn enough cash to keep moving. But when she meet a young writer named Brody, Reece considers putting the past behind her and settling...
18) State of play
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (128 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When D.C. reporter Cal McCaffrey is assigned to investigate the murder of an assistant to an up-and-coming politician, he uncovers a conspiracy that threatens to bring down the nation's power structures. In a town of spin-doctors and wealthy power brokers, he will discover one truth: when fortunes are at stake, no one's integrity, love, or life is safe.
19) Fargo
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2005
Edition
Special ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A midwestern policewoman investigates a series of brutal and interconnected crimes. Steadily, she tightens the net on the killers and their accomplices in a kidnapping scheme gone wildly wrong.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (approximately 440 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Suave, smart, and somewhat strange, Raphael Balthazar can make the dead speak like no one else, as a forensic pathologist in Paris.
"Seven months after his life was upended, Balthazar (Tomer Sisley) is still dealing with the fallout from his partner leaving and the revelations about his wife. Then Captain Camille Costes (Constance Labbé) steps in to work with the troubled forensic pathologist. Outspoken and boundlessly energetic, she has a bone...
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