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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage Indian nation in Oklahoma. After oil was discovered beneath their land, they rode in chauffeured automobiles, built mansions, and sent their children to study in Europe. Then, one by one, the Osage began to be killed off. The family of an Osage woman, Mollie Burkhart, became a prime target. Her relatives were shot and poisoned. And it was just the beginning, as more...
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Language
English
Description
"Reflecting on twenty years of investigating more than 5,500 death scenes, an NYC death investigator, the second woman ever hired for this role, shares how, in dealing with death every day, she learned surprising lessons about life--and how some of those lessons saved her from becoming a statistic herself"--
43) New Tricks
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
A team of seemingly over-the-hill detectives investigate previously unsolved cases in this crime drama. From the discovery of a new motive in the killing of a college lecturer, to the tracing of a missing child, the team finds a way through the detail that eluded the original officers. But they are finding a surprising incidence of cover-up and conspiracy in their new investigations. Are their superiors about to close ranks? Or is someone feeding...
44) 12 Angry Men
Publisher
MGM
Language
English
Description
Life is in their hands…death is on their minds. Henry Fonda, Lee J. Cobb, Ed Begley and Jack Klugman lead the distinctive cast in this powerful, classic film. Eleven jurors are convinced that the defendant is guilty of murder. The twelfth has no doubt of his innocence. How can this one man steer the others toward the same conclusion? It's a case of seemingly overwhelming evidence against a teenager accused of killing his father in "one of the best...
45) Polisse
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
Français
Description
A gripping police drama based on true accounts from the Parisian child protection unit.
46) Persistence
Publisher
Royal Anthropological Institute
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
Human bodies don’t simply disappear. They were kidnapped, buried, broken into pieces. But they are also searched for, recovered and if forensic experts achieve the unlikely, reconstructed as persons. These only return to their homes if they are identified as dead. An audiovisual journey through Mexico’s landscapes of disappearance, between mass graves and fragments, affected families and forensic anthropologists. In search for the human that remains,...
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English
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New York Times bestselling author and renowned prosecuting attorney Robert K. Tanenbaum provides the first insider's account of the historic Wylie-Hoffert case, from the shocking double-murder to the wrenching interrogation of an innocent young man, and the heroic Assistant District Attorney who risked everything to unravel a disgraceful injustice.
Chronicle of the infamous Career Girls Murders, a case that led to the Supreme Court's enactment of...
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Language
English
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"On a cool June evening in 2009, after performing a concert at London's Royal Academy of Music, twenty-year-old American flautist Edwin Rist boarded a train for a suburban outpost of the British Museum of Natural History. Home to one of the largest ornithological collections in the world, the Tring museum was full of rare bird specimens whose gorgeous feathers were worth staggering amounts of money to the men who shared Edwin's obsession: the Victorian...
49) Vice Academy
Publisher
All Channel Films
Pub. Date
1989.
Language
English
Description
Two female cops go undercover to bust a porno ring.. Starring iconic scream queen Linnea Quigley and erotic film legend Ginger Lynn Allen, the VICE ACADEMY series was a staple of late-night TV throughout the early to mid 90s.
51) Cherif
Publisher
MHz
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
Français
Description
Captain Kader Cherif is a brilliant and eccentric detective in this addictive, long-running French mystery series set in Lyon.
52) Difret
Publisher
Haile Addis Pictures
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Amharic
Description
This Sundance Audience Award winner executive produced by Angelina Jolie is about a young lawyer who travels to an Ethiopian village to represent Hirut, a 14-year-old girl who shot her would-be husband as he and others were practicing one of the nation's oldest traditions: abduction into marriage.
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Comedy drama about private detectives who investigate crime in Stratford-upon-Avon. Private inspector Frank Hathaway has always worked alone. But Frank isn't doing so well. He's out of shape and low on cash. Frank needs a partner. Frank needs ex-hairdresser and people-person Lu. He just doesn't know it yet. The two eventually join forces and form a highly unlikely and hugely entertaining detecting duo. Frank and Lu quickly discover that all is not...
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Now that Lu has passed her private investigator exams and Frank's tidied himself up a bit, there's no stopping them. But murder, kidnap, blackmail and infidelity still abound in the pretty tourist town of Stratford-upon-Avon. An ageing heavy metal star with a pact with the devil. A Shakespeare museum full of deadly secrets. A King Lear story set in a carpet warehouse. Welcome to the birthplace of the Bard, where low-life criminals get caught up in...
55) Respect the Jux
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
A corrupted young man ventures to the United States in quest of the American Dream, and forms a band of robbers to obtain it.
56) Cold
Publisher
Whistle TV
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
16-year-old Isla Wallis receives the shock of her young life when she discovers that her real father is in prison for killing the mother she never knew. Furious at having been lied to, Isla runs away to the remote mining town where she was born.
57) Jamesy Boy
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
A young gang member turns his life around in prison, thanks to the friendship he forms with a convicted murderer who becomes his mentor.
58) Wallflower
Publisher
Bayview Entertainment
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
The tragic Capitol Hill massacre of 2006 is the basis for this harrowing fictional drama about a man planning to commit a mass shooting who is befriended by an eccentric group of ravers and finds himself conflicted about his intentions.
60) The Coroner: S2
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Solicitor Jane Kennedy returns to the seaside town she left as a teenager to take up the post of coroner, becoming an advocate for the dead as she investigates sudden, violent or unexplained deaths.
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