Acorn Media (Firm)
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
The cozy villages of Midsomer County reveal their most sinister secrets in these contemporary British television mysteries. Second sight: A mysterious death brings Detective Chief Inspector Barnaby and his young assistant Sergeant Dan Scott to Midsomer Mere, where villagers claim psychic powers. Hidden depths: Barnaby and Scott face a bizarre crime scene when a local oenophile gets killed by a combination of catapult, croquet, and Chateau Lafite....
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
The cozy villages of Midsomer County reveal their most sinister secrets in these contemporary British television mysteries. The green man: Troy passes his inspector's exam and is moving on, but not before one more challenging case with Barnaby in Midsomer Worthy. Bad tidings: Dan Scott, Barnaby's new partner, gets a baptism by fire with a case in Midsomer Mallow that implicates Cully and her old schoolmates. The Fisher King: Barnaby and Scott...
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Detective Murdoch and his team tackle cases involving a seemingly invisible man, the political killing of a French diplomat, a possible alien invasion, and one of their own suspected of murder. Along the way, they encounter the greatest minds of the time, including architect Frank Lloyd Wright, entrepreneur Elizabeth Arden, and inventor Nikola Tesla.
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
The cozy villages of Midsomer County reveal their most sinister secrets in these contemporary British television mysteries. Things that go bump in the night: A series of grisly murders rocks the village of Fletcher's Cross and local spiritualists fall under suspicion. Dead in the water: Barnaby and Scott immerse themselves in the luxurious world of rowing after a murder mars the annual Midsomer Regatta. Orchis fatalis: In the orchid-mad village...
Publisher
Acorn
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Detective Inspector Mike Shepherd arrives on assignment in Brokenwood, a small town where memories--and animosities--run deep. He's an experienced cop with a 1971 "classic" car, a collection of country music cassettes, and an indeterminate number of ex-wives. The new woman in his life is his assistant, Detective Constable Kristin Sims a by-the-book investigator nearly twenty years younger than her boss's car, who quickly has to get used to his lone-wolf...
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
2006/2007
Language
English
Description
Detective Chief Superintendent Christopher Foyle, a long time veteran of the Hastings police force, is persuaded to remain on duty at home rather than join the troops at the front as World War II begins. But home is on the vulnerable southern English coast and the chaos, danger and venality of war seep into everyday events.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
The cozy villages of Midsomer County reveal their most sinister secrets in these contemporary British television mysteries. The Maid in Splendour: Unrequited love, secret business deals, and passionate affairs threaten the lives of those connected to The Maid in Splendour, Midsomer Worthy's beloved local pub. When one of the pub's bartenders is found murdered in the nearby woods, Barnaby and Scott uncover a deadly clash of cultures in the gossipy...
73) Chasing shadows
Publisher
Acorn
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
DS Sean Stone has an uncanny ability to identify and predict patterns of human behavior. He knows how people work, but he doesn't understand them. When no one else will work with the socially inept genius, Sean is cast out to the Missing Persons Bureau and partnered with empathetic analyst Ruth Hattersley. Despite the conflict and frustration between them, they make the perfect team as they protect the most vulnerable in society from the evil that...
76) Vexed: Series 1
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Vexed follows two mismatched police detectives as they banter and bicker their way through London's toughest cases. Includes three episodes.
Publisher
Acorn Media Group
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
This six part series explores the influence on ancient culture on our lives today. Host Michael Wood visits the ancient cities and great ports of India and China, the deserts of Egypt and Iraq, the Mexico of the Inca, Aztec and Mayan peoples, the Greek and Roman monuments of Europe and the jungles of Central America searching for the living legacies of these once great civilizations. The series traces how the institutions that arose with urban civilization...
78) Bloodlands
Publisher
Acorn
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Veteran detective Tom Brannick connects a criminal's car pulled from the sea to a notorious series of disappearances, including his own wife's twenty years earlier. Brannick begins an obsessive campaign to unmask a possible assassin, code-named Goliath, in a case that evokes Northern Ireland's dark past.
79) Jericho
Publisher
[Place of publisher not identifited]
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Jessica Raine stars as Annie Quaintain, a widowed mother of two who is forced to start a new life in the remote town of Jericho in rugged 1870s Yorkshire. To make ends meet, she takes in lodgers who work on the local railroad. When handsome worker Johnny Jackson shows up at her door, he brings with him a load of trouble that could threaten Annie's new life.
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