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41) Taggart: Set 2
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Glasgow's finest take on the city's worst crimes in Taggart, a gripping cop drama with a hard-edged Scottish burr. Witty scripts and deadpan humor give this quintessentially Scottish series universal appeal.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
2012, c2010
Language
English
Description
Homicide, blackmail, greed, and betrayal: just a taste of what goes on behind the well-trimmed hedges of Midsomer County. Inspired by the novels of Caroline Graham, this British series is deliciously sinister and darkly humorous. Episodes include: The Made-to-Measure Murders, The Sword of Guillaume, Blood on the Saddle, The Silent Land.
Series
Language
English
Description
Thomas Crown is a rich, well-educated Boston businessman. He's very good at what he does, but business is apparently no longer enough of a challenge for him--he's bored to within an inch of his life. So Crown has adopted an interesting hobby--he robs banks. He robs banks with such intricate, elaborate, Rube Goldberg-esque plans that it is impossible to trace anything back to him. His sole pleasure in life is getting away with it all. Needless to say,...
45) Ocean's eleven
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
New Year's Eve in Las Vegas. Roulette wheels spin and the champaign fizzes. It's the perfect time to steal a kiss or a $25 chip. But for Danny Ocean and his 10 partners in crime, it's the perfect moment to steal millions. Danny devises a scheme to knock out power to the Vegas strip, electronically rig five big casinos vaults and raid them all at the same time.
46) The bank job
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
A small-time crook takes on a bank heist when an old friend offers him an inside track to the vault. Along with his hastily assembled team of low-rung criminals, Terry finds himself in deep. The group becomes the target of ruthless mobsters, the police, government officials at the highest level, and even the royal family. Based on the true story of a British princess and a sex scandal.
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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Description
Never underestimate an overachiever. To his classmates and teachers, high-schooler Ben Manibag appears to be the "model" student, a perfectionist and overachiever, destined for nothing less than graduating at the top of his class and then attending a prestigious college. But underneath this persona is a darker side, Ben and his bored high-school buddies lead double lives, flying high in a world of petty crime and material excess to ease the pressures...
Publisher
distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Small mercies : "The village of Little Worthing prides itself on two tourist attractions: the annual boat race and an elaborate model village. Then the body of troublemaker Richard Tanner turns up bound on the model with string and pegs like a passage from Gulliver's Travels. As Barnaby and Jones investigate, they discover that outsized passions swirled around the tiny figurines and that this model hamlet hides troubling personal histories"--Container.
The...
Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
©2017.
Language
English
Description
Documents the nearly two-decade manhunt for a serial bomber in mid-twentieth-century New York, citing the contributions of police captain Howard Finney and psychiatrist James Brussel in developing investigative techniques that would shape new approaches in American law enforcement.
50) Burn it all down
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
©2021.
Language
English
Description
Eighteen-year-old aspiring comic Joey Rossi just found out his boyfriend has been cheating on him for the past ten months. But what did he expect? Joey was born with an addiction to toxic jerks--something he inherited from his lovably messy, wisecracking, Italian-American spitfire of a mom (and best friend): 34-year-old Gia Rossi. When Gia's latest non-relationship goes up in flames only a day later, the pair's Bayonne, New Jersey apartment can barely...
51) Fast five
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
After Brian and Mia break Dom out of jail, they find themselves trapped in Rio de Janeiro and on the run from the law. Now one last job stands between them and freedom, but will they make it before the corrupt businessmen, or the feds, catch up to them?
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Attorney Rhonda Bird returns home after a long estrangement when she learns her father has died. There she makes two important discoveries: her father stopped being an accountant and had opened up a private detective agency, and she has a teenage half sister named Baby. Baby brings in a client to the detective agency, a young man who claims he was abducted. During the course of the investigation, Rhonda and Baby become entangled in a dangerous case...
54) Lethal weapon
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Roger Murtaugh just turned 50. He is an aging family man and sensible veteran LAPD police officer who is just trying to make it through the day unscathed. Martin Riggs is a suicidal loose cannon cop who doesn't care if he even lives to see the end of the day. For Roger, they are reluctantly thrown together to solve the mysterious murder of a banker's daughter. Along the way, the unlikely duo uncovers a dangerous ring of drug smugglers employing ex-military...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"The United States currently holds the distinction of housing nearly one-quarter of the world's prison population. But our reliance on mass incarceration, Fox Butterfield argues, misses the intractable reality: As few as 5 percent of families account for half of all crime, and only 10 percent account for two-thirds. In introducing us to the Bogle family, the author invites us to understand crime in this eye-opening new light. He chronicles the malignant...
56) 3:10 to Yuma
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Arizona in the late 1800s. Infamous outlaw Ben Wade and his vicious gang of thieves and murderers have plagued the Southern Railroad. When Wade is captured, Civil War veteran Dan Evans, struggling to survive on his drought-plagued ranch, volunteers to deliver him alive to the train that will take the killer to trial. On the trail, Evans and Wade, each from very different worlds, begin to earn each other's respect. But with Wade's outfit on their trail,...
Author
Publisher
Drawn & Quarterly
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Rebecca's got an eight-month-old baby and a mystery to investigate! Late one summer night as she's breastfeeding Lucie, she spots two men carrying something heavy into a white minivan. It's probably nothing serious, but when Rebecca hears that a home healthcare provider named Eduardo Morales disappeared from the neighborhood that very night, she puts her detective hat on and gets to work."--
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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Description
"The pulse-pounding story of the first time in history that the FBI Behavioral Unit created a profile to catch a serial killer. On June 25, 1973, a seven-year-old girl went missing from the Montana campground where her family was vacationing. Somebody had slit open the back of her tent and snatched her from under their noses. None of them saw or heard anything. Susie Jaeger had vanished into thin air, plucked by a shadow. The largest manhunt in Montana's...
60) Untouchable
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A man's quest to find answers for those who are haunted by the past leads him deeper into the shadows in this electrifying novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Promise Not to Tell. Quinton Zane is back. Jack Lancaster, consultant to the FBI, has always been drawn to the coldest of cold cases, the kind that law enforcement either considers unsolvable or else has chalked up to accidents or suicides. As a survivor of a fire, he finds...
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