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Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Hoping to distance himself from the fallout of a libel conviction, journalist Mikael Blomkvist retreats to a remote island in Sweden's far north where the unsolved murder of a young girl still haunts her industrialist uncle forty years later. Ensconced in a cottage on the island where the killer may still roam, Blomkvist's investigation draws him into the secrets and lies of the rich and powerful, and throws him together with one unlikely ally: tattooed,...
2) City of lies
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Formats
Description
This crime-thriller follows the investigation into the infamous murder of iconic rap artist Christopher Wallace aka The Notorious B.I.G. Determined LAPD detective Russell Poole spent nearly 20 years trying to solve the murder, and Jack Jackson, a journalist teams up with Poole in search of the elusive truth. Together they explore why the case remains old, and why a secretive division of the LAPD is seemingly set on keeping it that way.
Language
English
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Description
Two Supreme Court Justices have been murdered. A lone law student turns her suspicions about the deaths into a speculative brief that sends shock waves into the highest levels of government. She finds herself embroiled in a terrifying web of intrigue extending to the highest levels of government. She writes a speculative legal brief exposing the activities of a powerful oil magnate. With the help of Gray Grantham, an investigative reporter, they suspect...
4) Fletch
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Irwin "Fletch" Fletcher is a Los Angeles journalist who really lives for his profession. As Jane Doe, he publishes articles that have caused several heads to roll in the past. This time, Fletch is in disguise as a bum, living at the beach, researching drugs and their dealing. One day, Fletch is addressed by Alan Stanwyk, a rich man, who asks him, the bum, a favour. For the sum of $50,000, Fletch should kill poor cancer-ridden Mr. Stanwyk with a gun,...
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Seattle consumer affairs TV reporter Ruby Herring (Taylor Cole) turned her investigative instincts on the homicides in her hometown--to the chagrin of local plainclothesman Jake Killian (Stephen Huszar)--in this series of Hallmark mysteries. Home for her sister's wedding, Ruby noses around when the affair's cake baker turns up dead, in "Silent Witness" (2019). When a local health food doyenne's a no-show for her interview, Ruby suspects foul play,...
8) Southcliffe
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Exactly a year after he reported on a killing spree in the town of his unhappy childhood, English journalist David Whitehead returns to the scene of the crime in response to an anonymous message. Someone--who?--warns that the killing is about to begin again. Is tragedy somehow woven into the fabric of the town? Will the people closest to last year's victims ever find ways to heal their broken lives?" --container.
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A collection of DVDs all gathered into one "binge box" for a spectacular movie night.
Fast & furious 6: Following their successful Rio heist, Dom and his crew of professional criminals have retired around the world. But their inability to return home and living forever on the lam has left their lives incomplete.
Seven: A serial killer uses the seven deadly sins as the template for his killing spree.
Eight legged freaks: Residents of a mining town...
11) c
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
Swedish
Description
The final installment of Stieg Larsson's 'Millennium' trilogy. Lisbeth Salander is fighting for her life in more ways than one. In an intensive care unit and charged with three murders, she will have to not only prove her innocence, but also identify and denounce the same corrupt government institutions that nearly destroyed her life. Once upon a time, she was a victim. Now, Lisbeth Salander is fighting back.
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Forty years ago, Harriet Vanger disappeared from a family gathering on the island owned and inhabited by the powerful Vanger clan. Her body was never found and her beloved uncle is convinced she was murdered, and that the killer is a member of his own tightly knit but dysfunctional family. He employs disgraced investigative journalist Mickael Blomkvist and the tattooed and troubled yet resourceful computer hacker Lisbeth Salander to investigate.
Language
English
Description
Hidden in silence: Based on the true story of Catholic teenager Stefania Podgórska, who, with her younger sister Helena, hid 13 Jews in the attic of their home in Przemyśl, Poland, during WWII.
Getting up and going home: Jack is married and in the throes of a mid-life crisis. In desperation, he becomes romantically involved with two other women hoping to fill the void. Can he find happiness or will he lose it all?
No ordinary baby: A reporter...
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
Swedish
Description
Girl with the dragon tattoo: A journalist is aided in his search for a woman who has been missing, or dead, for forty years by a young female hacker. Girl who played with fire: As computer hacker Lisbeth and journalist Mikael investigate a sex-trafficking ring, Lisbeth is accused of three murders, causing her to go on the run while Mikael works to clear her name. Girl who kicked the hornet's nest: Lisbeth is recovering in a hospital and awaiting...
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Irwin "Fletch" Fletcher is a Los Angeles journalist who really lives for his profession. As Jane Doe, he publishes articles that have caused several heads to roll in the past. This time, Fletch is in disguise as a bum, living at the beach, researching drugs and their dealing. One day, Fletch is addressed by Alan Stanwyk, a rich man, who asks him, the bum, a favour. For the sum of
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Hoping to distance himself from the fallout of a libel conviction, journalist Mikael Blomkvist retreats to a remote island in Sweden's far north, where the unsolved murder of a young girl still haunts her industrialist uncle forty years later. Ensconced in a cottage on the island where the killer may still roam, Blomkvist's investigation draws him into the secrets and lies of the rich and powerful, and throws him together with one unlikely ally: tattooed,...
19) Missing
Series
Criterion collection volume 449
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
A film based on the disappearance of journalist Charles Horman. A father searches for his missing son during the oppressive and violent political chaos of the 1973 Chilean coup. Seeking help from local bureau of the U.S. State Department, family frustration grows as the situation becomes more complex.
A film based loosely on actual events. A declassified document released in 1999 by the U.S. Government appears to contradict the State Department's...
20) Never come back
Pub. Date
[1989]
Language
English
Description
SUMMARY : In World War II London, a cocky and obnoxious journalist is desperate to learn about the woman with whom he is wildly enamored. He discovers her mysterious diary, but then finds himself a fugitive in a murder hunt at the hands of opponents he can neither outwit nor understand.
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