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Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
1983
Physical Desc
120 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Angela Vicario's husband returns his new bride to her family hours after the marriage, claiming she is a dishonored woman. Angela's family forces her to reveal her first lover's name, and her twin brothers set out to murder the man, Santiago Nasar. As the murder is planned, no one in the town tries to stop the crime, which results in an entire society put on trial for the murder.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Cádiz, 1811. The Spanish port city has been surrounded by Napoleon's army for a year. Their backs to the sea, its residents endure routine bombardments and live in constant fear of a French invasion. And now the bodies of random women have begun to turn up throughout the city, victims of a shadowy killer. Police Comisario Rogelio Tizón has been assigned the case. Known for his razor-sharp investigation skills--as well as his brutal interrogation...
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
5) 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.
Author
Series
Trilog�ia del Bazt�an volume 3
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
488 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Detective Inspector Amaia Salazar is called in to investigate the death of a baby girl, she finds a suspicious mark across the child's face - an ominous sign that points to murder. The baby's father was caught trying to run away with the body, whether from guilt or grief nobody can be sure. And when the girl's grandmother tells the police that the 'Inguma' was responsible - an evil demon of Basque mythology that kills people in their sleep -...
7) Memento
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001], c2000
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 113 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An intricate crime story about a man who has lost his short term memory due to a rare brain disorder. Now he is out to catch his wife's murderer, whose identity he cannot even know for sure. The more he tries to figure out what is true and real, the more he sinks deeper into a multi-layered abyss of uncertainty and surprises.
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...
9) Red queen
Author
Series
Red queen trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
377 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Introducing Antonia Scott-the most compelling and original detective since Lisbeth Salander-in Juan Gómez-Jurado's Red Queen, the #1 international award-winning bestseller thriller that has taken the world by storm. Antonia Scott-the daughter of a British diplomat and a Spanish mother-has a gifted forensic mind, whose ability to reconstruct crimes and solve baffling murders is legendary. But after a personal trauma, she's refused to continue her...
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
Series
Terra Alta novels volume 1
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition/ First American edition
Physical Desc
339 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A first, prize-winning work of suspense from the internationally acclaimed author of Soldiers of Salamis. Melchor Marín is a young cop from the big city, Barcelona. But he is also an outsider. The son of a prostitute, Melchor went to prison as a teenager, convicted of working for a Colombian drug cartel. Behind bars, he read a book that changed his life: Les Misérables. Then his mother was murdered. He decided to become a policeman. Now he has...
12) 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
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
5 videodiscs (703 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
With a murder unsolved and a betrayal exposed, the truth is suspect and shifting between the perspectives of Noah, Alison, Helen and Cole, the story now reveals the complex family ties, passionate betrayals and vengeful emotions that have resulted from the illicit summer liaison. And as the two estranged couples try individually to plan for the future, a new series of deceptions will once again force them to question everything they believed.
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010], c2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (109 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Clyde Shelton is a brilliant planner and inventor. One night two robbers invade his Philadelphia home and brutally kill his wife and daughter, almost killing him. When the killers are caught, Assistant DA Nick Rice is assigned the case. Nick makes a deal with one of the killers to testify against his partner for a 10 year plea bargain prison sentence. Clyde doesn't want Nick to make the deal, but Nick says the deal is done. The other killer gets the...
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,...
17) Wind River
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An FBI agent teams with a town's veteran game tracker to investigate a murder that occurred on a Native American reservation.
Publisher
[Distributed by] MPI Media Group
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (107 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In his fascinating exploration of a triple homicide case iin Conroe, Texas, master filmmaker Werner Herzog probes the human psyche to explore why people kill, and why a state kills. As he's so often done before, Herzog's investigation unveils layers of humanity, making an enlightening trip out of ominous territory.
19) Lion's den
Publisher
Strand Releasing Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (113 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
Julia gives birth to a son after she is sent to the penitentiary for the murder of her lover. Fellow inmate Marta becomes her ally, while her mother Sofia is her opponent. As Marta attempts to teach Julia how to be a mother in the least appropriate place, her mother attempts to gain custody so the child can grow up outside of prison. The duel between Julia and her mother expresses the dilemma of what is better for the child, life with his mother in...
20) 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.
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