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1) Bad monkey
Author
Series
Andrew Yancy novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Formats
Description
Andrew Yancy, late of the Miami Police, soon-to-be-late of the Key West Police, has a human arm in his freezer. There is a logical explanation for that, but not for how and why it parted from its owner. Yancy thinks the boating-accident/shark-luncheon explanation is full of holes, and if he can prove murder, his commander might relieve him of Health Inspector duties, aka Roach Patrol. But first Yancy will negotiate an ever-surprising course of events,...
2) The dry
Author
Series
Aaron Falk novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A small town hides big secrets in The Dry. After getting a note demanding his presence, Federal Agent Aaron Falk arrives in his hometown for the first time in decades to attend the funeral of his best friend, Luke. Twenty years ago when Falk was accused of murder, Luke was his alibi. Falk and his father fled under a cloud of suspicion, saved from prosecution only because of Luke's steadfast claim that the boys had been together at the time of the...
Author
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Formats
Description
"An immersive tale of the killing of a Native American man and its far-reaching consequences for Colonial America. In the summer of 1722, on the eve of a conference between the Five Nations of the Iroquois and British-American colonists, two colonial fur traders brutally attacked an Indigenous hunter in colonial Pennsylvania. The crime set the entire mid-Atlantic on edge, with many believing that war was imminent. Frantic efforts to resolve the case...
Publisher
Columbia Pictures
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
The murder of a prostitute, who is also a German agent, draws the attention of Major Grau of German Intelligence, who discovers that the evidence points to three top-ranking Nazi generals. After following leads, Grau winds up in Paris and discovers that two of the generals are deeply involved in a plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler. Grau's case will go unfinished for twenty years until the true killer is brought to justice.
Author
Language
English
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The Book was Better
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The Book was Better
Description
Presents a true account of the early twentieth-century murders of dozens of wealthy Osage and law-enforcement officials, citing the contributions and missteps of a fledgling FBI that eventually uncovered one of the most chilling conspiracies in American history.
1920s Oklahoma. The richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage Indian nation in Oklahoma after oil was discovered beneath their land. Then, one by one, the Osage began...
Author
Language
English
Description
This is the author's account of her hard-fought battle to overcome injustice and win the freedom she deserved after spending four years in prison for the murder of Meredith Kercher in Perugia, Italy. She spent four years in a foreign prison for a crime she did not commit. Separated from her family, she was demonized by the international press and treated harshly by the Italian justice system, including disdainful police. She endured humiliation, injustice,...
8) Exposed
Publisher
Grindstone
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
When a detective starts to investigate his partner's shocking death, he uncovers disturbing evidence of police corruption and a dangerous secret involving an unlikely young woman.
9) Insomnia
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
Invited to Nightmute, Alaska, to head a murder case, veteran LAPD detective Will Dormer finds his investigation disrupted by an ever-shining midnight sun that wreaks sleep-depriving havoc on him, and by personal guilt over a second crime that may be real or a figment of his increasingly unstable consciousness. In the season of the midnight sun, no one and no secret can hide forever.
Author
Language
English
Description
""My wife! I think she's dead!" Matt frantically tells park rangers that he and his wife, Marie, were hiking when she fell off a cliff into the raging river below. They start a search, but they aren't hopeful: no one could have survived that fall. It was a tragic accident. But Matt's first wife also died in suspicious circumstances. And when the police pull a body out of the river, they have a lot more questions for Matt. Detectives Loren and Spengler...
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
Español
Description
Javier Falcon, chief of the homicide division in Sevilla, must solve two different cases in a short period of time. An old friend who has infiltrated an Islamic terrorist cell in Sevilla and whose son is now being aggressively recruited for their cause seeks out Falcon's help. In the meantime, the Russian mafia that he's been investigating has kidnapped a child and the ransom they are demanding is far too high.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Formats
Description
From Connelly's first career as a prizewinning crime reporter--the true stories that inspired and informed his novels. Covering the homicide beat in Florida and Los Angeles in vivid, hard-hitting articles, Connelly leads the reader past the yellow police tape as he follows the investigators, the victims, their families and friends--and, of course, the killers--to tell the real stories of murder and its aftermath. Connelly's firsthand observations...
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Brennan's uncanny forensic skills help resolve even grislier cases, including a retirement home murder, a possible death by robot, and the slaying of close friend. Along the way, family tragedy strikes and Booth lands in the crosshairs of a serial killer. The fascinating storylines, heart and humor of these twelve episodes wrap of the final season of this hit series.
Series
Supernatural volume Season 2
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Sam and Dean Winchester are hunters on the trail of the demon who murdered their mother, and of any other unholy agent of the supernatural. In the aftermath of the car crash, a shocking sacrifice will cements the bond between the Winchester men forever. The brothers make a bone-chilling road trip across America and journey deeper into the mystery of their own destinies.
17) Bones: Season 10
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
In the Tenth Season, suspense is at an all-time high as Booth is framed and jailed for the murder of three FBI agents while Bones considers committing blackmail to get him out of prison. Meanwhile, the team at the Jeffersonian sets out to solve a whole new roster of bizarre cases, the deaths of a controversial radio host, a mysterious crossword puzzler, and many more.
Publisher
Paramount Home Video
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
Description
CIA Agent Jack Ryan is appointed acting CIA Deputy Director of Intelligence when his mentor, Admiral James Greer becomes gravely ill. His first assignment is to investigate the murder of one of the president's friends, a prominent U.S. businessman with secret ties to Colombian drug cartels. Caught in the crossfire, Ryan takes matters into his own hands.
20) Bones. Season 2
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Forensic anthropologist Dr. Temperance "Bones" Brennan and FBI Special Agent Seely Booth combine her uncanny ability to decipher clues found in the remains of victims and his hard-hitting investigative techniques. The two use state-of-the-art forensic technology to solve some of the most baffling and bizarre crimes ever. Brennen gets a new boss and takes on a new partner, tensions mount, passions flare and a shocking conspiracy forces her to confront...
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