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1) Vera: Set 4
Language
English
Description
Includes four all-new, feature-length mysteries. From the death of a woman found on the Northumberland cliffs to the body of a fisherman pulled out of the sea, these cases prove to be some of the most difficult and emotional in Vera's career.
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Detective Superintendent Jane Tennison finds herself searching for Sallie Sturdy, a fourteen-year-old girl presumed murdered. Facing the hospitalization of her father, descending deeper into alcoholism, and resisting pressure to retire quietly, Tennison vows to bring Sallie's killer to justice before ending her career. She forges a surprising friendship with Penny Philips, Sallie's best friend.
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Invasion: As the first American GIs arrive to build an airbase near Hastings, the murder of a barmaid further strains already-tense relations between the locals and the Yanks.
Bad blood: A top-secret experiment in biological warfare goes horribly wrong, complicating a murder investigation and threatening the life of Foyle's faithful driver, Sam.
Bleak midwinter: The death of a young munitions worker and the murder of Paul Milner's wife seem linked,...
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
DCS Christopher Foyle investigates wartime crimes in the English coastal town of Hastings. With the end of World War II slowly but inevitably approaching, Foyle and his fellow citizens learn the price of victory and face a peace that will transform their lives in unexpected ways. Plan of attack: April 1944. DS Milner's investigation of a transportation fraud sets in motion a series of events that brings Foyle back to the force. As Hastings hosts an...
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
[The devil's foot] : Winner of a Mystery Writers of America Award 1989. When Watson insists Ho,mes take a vacation in a small Cornish village, he spends his holiday unraveling the mysterious death of a young woman. [Silver blaze]: A highly prized racehorse disappears on the eve of a big race. [The Bruce Partington plans]: Plans for a secret submarine are found in the pocket of a young man brutally murdered on a railway line leading from the underground....
10) Prime suspect: 2
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
This case involves a death in the Afro-Caribbean community that puts Detective Chief Inspector Tennison and the rest of the police force in the middle of racial controversy.
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
With the demise of Moriarty, Sherlock finds himself locked in another mind battle with the powerful Charles Augustus Magnussen, who is holding the secrets of the world at his fingertips. Once again, the game is on for Sherlock and John in The Empty Hearse; The Sign of Three; and finally, His Last Vow.
The question on everyone's lips is finally answered as the hugely popular Sherlock returns in three brand new action-packed adventures. With the demise...
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
The adventures of detective Christopher Foyle in World War II-era England.
The German Woman: When a beautiful Austrian woman is found murdered with a swastika painted on a nearby tree, Foyle realizes the seemingly peaceful Sussex town harbors any number of suspects.
The White Feather: The arrest of a young girl on a sabotage charge brings Foyle into contact with a group of English Nazi sympathizers.
A lesson in murder: A conscientious objector...
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
The cozy villages of MIdsomer County reveal their most sinister secrets in these contemporary British television mysteries. Tainted fruit: A wealthy young landlady in Midsomer Malham fears for her life after she callously ignores the plight of an elderly tenant. Ring out your dead: Just before a big competition, someone starts killing members of the church bell-ringing team in Midsomer Wellow. Murder on St. Malley's Day: After a murder at the Devington...
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Detective Chief Superintendant Christopher Foyle is a police investigator in the British coastal community of Hastings. In the immediate aftermath of World War II, Foyle finds his longed-for retirement interrupted by cases involving international intrigue, military racism, and an accused traitor all too willing to go to the gallows.
16) The murder room
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Commander Dalgliesh undertakes a highly sensitive murder investigation at the Dupayne Museum. The circumstances of the case bear an unsettling similarity to the historical cases commemorated in the museum's notorious Murder Room.
17) Luther: 4
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Pitted against his most chilling adversary yet, Luther is haunted by past ghosts and hellbent on revenge as the Serious Crime Unit faces its most challenging psychological duel to date. There is no question he will come close to the edge, but will he finally go over?
18) Identity
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Series about an elite police team charged with investigating the high-stakes world of identity theft. Realistic plots and intelligent writing offer a riveting glimpse into one of the 21st century's most ubiquitous crimes.
Series
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Home from a two-year assignment in the British Virgin Islands, Inspector Robert Lewis, protégé of the legendary Inspector Morse, returns to Oxford, England in the series pilot, where he is teamed with a brilliant new partner, Detective Sergeant James Hathaway. Lewis barely makes it out of the airport before falling into his first murder investigation. But even if he solves the case, will his new boss still move him from the front lines to a training...
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Jonathan Pine is working as the night manager of a Cairo hotel. He gets involved with a local woman who is the girlfriend of a local gangster. Through her relationship with the gangster she has acquired information linking illegal international arms sales with an English billionaire.
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