Acorn Media (Firm)
Pub. Date
2022
Description
Based on P.D. James's global bestsellers, this riveting mystery series stars Bertie Carvel as enigmatic Inspector Adam Dalgliesh . A recent widower and acclaimed poet, Dalgliesh is a cerebral, reserved man but possessed of exceptional empathy and insight. As he investigates complex crimes in 1970s England, he plumbs the darker depths of the human psyche in his pursuit of justice.
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
Janet is seconded from a case of psychological abuse in the armed services to head up a Royal Commission into gun crime. Conscripting solicitors Richard and Lina, and the ambitious Owen Ramsey, Janet trades the rarefied atmosphere of mahogany courtrooms, wigs, and gowns for plain clothes and a community hall. There, she and her team focus on the murder of 25-year-old Hani Akvan.
Pub. Date
c2013
Description
When one of Jack's former clients dies, Jack decides to investigate and uncovers a conspiracy; when Jack sets out to find the son of a family friend, he discovers that the man may be involved with dangerous people; when a judge requests Jack's help in locating sensitive papers, Jack uncovers a conspiracy involving drug smuggling and police corruption.
Pub. Date
2015
Description
Detective Inspector John Rebus is investigating sinister and grisly crimes in the storied and atmospheric city of Edinburgh, Scotland. This complete collection includes all four series of the hit television series based on the globally popular Inspector Rebus novels by Ian Rankin.
10) The Nest
Pub. Date
[2020]
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.
11) Vera: set 5
Description
Based on the award-winning novels by Ann Cleeves. A cantankerous but brilliant detective solves unthinkable crimes in northeast England. Blethyn imbues DCI Vera Stanhope in this hit detective drama. Set Five includes four all new feature-length mysteries.
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
After single mother June receives a fateful phone call, she takes increasingly desperate measures to salvage her family's future in this dark thriller. Finding herself the victim of a scam that wipes out her savings, June tries to hunt down those responsible with the help of an old flame.
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
Based on the novels by Julie Wassmer, this mystery series follows big-hearted restaurant owner Pearl Nolan, who sets up a local detective agency in the English seaside town of Whitstable after undergoing police training in an earlier career. She's joined by Detective Mike McGuire, who comes from London to investigate a case.
Pub. Date
[2021]
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.
Series
Other One volume 1
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
When her husband dies at his surprise party, Tess gets a bigger shock when she learns he had a secret family. Now she and her uptight daughter, Cathy, must get to know playful Marilyn and her daughter, Cat.
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
She brings people into the world (midwife), he ushers them out (undertaker), but for this unconventional pair, love is the greatest journey of all. A slightly jaded, but ever hopeful couple looking to finally get it right. From the minute they meet, the demands of family and their unpredictable professions keep things complicated. But they find that, like birth and death, love is a force that won't be denied.
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
In this dark crime drama with a supernatural edge, a small town in New Zealand is upended when a local man's body is found at the bottom of a one-lane bridge that's long been a locus of unexplained events. While investigating the murder, an ambitious Māori detective inadvertently reawakens his second sight, a gift that endangers his life but may help solve the mystery of the sinister landmark.
19) The Detectorists
Description
Andy and Lance, members of the Danebury Metal Detectors Club, dream of finding a fortune. As Andy pursues a degree in archaeology and Lance considers being a musician, they spend their days searching through fields with their metal detectors.
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
As a forensic pathologist in Paris, Rapha?l Balthazar can make the dead speak like no one else. He solves the city's most disturbing crimes with no-nonsense chief inspector Ȟ̈lne Bach, who, in Series Two, helps him reopen the one case that still haunts him: his wife₂s murder.