Acorn Media (Firm)
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (706 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 inches.
Language
English
Description
"In 1920s Melbourne, the Honourable Phryne Fisher is a thoroughly modern woman operating in a mostly male world. The glamorous lady detective goes about her work with a pistol close at hand--and, more often than not, a male admirer even closer."--Container.
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (ca. 400 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Foyle, a veteran detective is persuaded to remain on duty at home rather than join the troops at the front as World War II begins. But home is on the vulnerable southern English coast and the chaos, danger and venality of war seep into everyday events.
6) Vera: Set 3
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014?]
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (369 min.) : DVD video, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
This is a compelling mystery series, inspired by Ann Cleeves' bestselling novel. Patrolling her patch of northeast England, Vera resolutely pursues the truth in cases of murder, kidnapping, and blackmail. While her manner is sometimes caustic, her single-mindedness gets results.
7) The nest
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (302 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A suspenseful Scottish drama about a wealthy couple who would do anything to have a baby. After a chance encounter, they recruit a down-on-her-luck eighteen-year-old to be a surrogate, but secrets emerge about the girl's past that could make them regret their deal.
8) The sounds
Publisher
Acorn
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (352 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Set against the stunning Marlborough Sounds in New Zealand, this twisty thriller follows a married couple looking to start a new life. But when Maggie joins her husband, Tom, in an idyllic small town halfway around the world, their reunion proves short-lived. As Maggie discovers Tom's secrets, she begins to plumb the dark depths of paradise.
Publisher
Acorn
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approximately 403 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
DSI Stella Gibson continues to hunt serial killer Paul Spector in the second series of this smart psychological thriller. As Gibson tries to help Spector's surviving victim remember the identity of her attacker, Spector deals with loose ends that he left behind in Belfast. When he realizes that someone from his past has been helping the police with their enquires, Spector changes his plans with terrifying consequences.
Publisher
Acorn
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (400 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In the thick of a career-defining case, Roz is under intense pressure to prove herself to her superiors. But when she faces conflict with a colleague, it's not long before AC-12 decide to probe her handling of the investigation.
Publisher
Acorn
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (240 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In the gripping thriller from Jed Mercurio, veteran detective Tom Brannick connects a criminal's car pulled from the sea to a notorious series of disappearances, including his own wife's twenty years earlier. Brannick begins an obsessive campaign to unmask a possible assassin, code-named Goliath, in a case that evokes Northern Ireland's dark past.
12) Hidden: Series 1
Publisher
Acorn
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (477 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In this noir thriller from the team behind Hinterland, DI Cadi John investigates a string of disappearances in the mountains of Wales.
Publisher
Acorn
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (241 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The elite murder squad returns. As the detectives solve each case (skeletal remains dug up in the garden, the brutal murder of a pub landlord, a teenage au pair found dead, the double-shooting of a father and son), there's one mystery Detective Inspector David Bradford can't unravel. Where is his wife Sarah? As the other detectives investigate why David is lying to them about the night Sarah disappeared, they begin to think the unthinkable: did the...
14) Chasing shadows
Publisher
Acorn
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (183 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
DS Sean Stone has an uncanny ability to identify and predict patterns of human behavior. He knows how people work, but he doesn't understand them. When no one else will work with the socially inept genius, Sean is cast out to the Missing Persons Bureau and partnered with empathetic analyst Ruth Hattersley. Despite the conflict and frustration between them, they make the perfect team as they protect the most vulnerable in society from the evil that...
15) Blood: Series 2
Publisher
Acorn
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (300 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After a year away from home, disgraced physician Jim Hogan returns to make amends with his family. But when his daughter Fiona's car veers off the road one night, it leads to a disturbing discovery.
16) Vera: [Set 1]
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (approximately 355 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Follows a solitary, obsessed, cantankerous investigator-- who happens to be pure genius at her job.
17) Hidden: Series 3
Publisher
Acorn
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (357 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Welsh
Description
When a body is found in a river, Cadi leads an investigation into the lives of two brothers. The brothers have secrets to hide, a harrowing history, but you can’t outrun your past. --
18) Bang: Series 1
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (392 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Loner Sam and his ambitious sister, Gina, live in a decaying steel town in South Wales. Since the death of their father twelve years earlier, the two have taken divergent paths. Gina has a promising career in the police force, but Sam's life is going nowhere, until one day he gets his hands on a gun. Emboldened by newfound confidence, he begins to commit increasingly daring crimes.
20) Blood: Series 1
Publisher
RLJ Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (288 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Cat Hogan is forced to confront her past when the sudden 'accidental' death of her mother, Mary, draws her back to the family she has spent the last ten years trying to avoid. Now, this uncomfortable reunion awakens sinister demons from the past and shines a suspicious light on her mother's death. However much she wants to believe her death was innocent, her suspicions start to mount against her father when she begins to notice discrepancies in his...
