Acorn Media (Firm)
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Leading New Scotland Yard's Murder Review Team has Commander Clare Blake feeling trapped in her office. Eager to get back to investigative work, Blake welcomes a transfer to the Homicide and Serious Crime division, where she's assigned to a slate of difficult cases. Ambitious, imperious, and dedicated, Blake keeps her private life separate from her work, until two deeply personal crimes threaten everything she has worked for.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Cutting-edge Victorian science meets cunningly plotted mystery in this award-winning Canadian TV drama. William Murdoch is a detective in Toronto in 1895, using new forensic techniques like fingerprinting and psychological profiling. He crosses paths with famous figures including Arthur Conan Doyle, and H.G. Wells.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Actor Martin Clunes, star of the hit TV series Doc Martin, is on a quest to discover the islands of Australia. There are over 8,000 to choose from, and in this three-part series Martin, an avid nature and animal lover with infectious excitement as a host, visits sixteen of the best. They are a cross-section that express the diversity, history, and challenges of life on island Down Under.
Series
Midsomer murders volume 16
Publisher
Acorn
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
The idyllic villages of Midsomer County reveal their most sinister secrets in these five feature-length mysteries from the perennially popular British series.
Publisher
Acorn
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
The lives of sisters Sharon and Tracey are never the same after their husbands are convicted of armed robbery and sent to prison. Forced to live together, the sisters become good, if begrudging, friends with their man-eating neighbor Dorien Green. Together with their families, Sharon and Tracey face the dramas, tragedies, stresses, and strains of keeping up with the world, without their husbands' support.
Publisher
distributed by RLJ Entertainment, Inc
Pub. Date
c2014
Language
English
Description
After 25 years playing one of television's most beloved characters, David Suchet explores why fans have always gravitated towards the great Hercule Poirot. Suchet shares his experience of portraying the iconic detective as camera crews follow his preparations and join him on set for the final, emotional days of filming. He also returns to Agatha Christie's summer home in Devon--where he met the author's family after first being cast as Poirot--and...
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Français
Description
As a forensic pathologist in Paris, Raphaël Balthazar can make the dead speak like no one else. He solves the city's most disturbing crimes with no-nonsense chief inspector Hélène Bach, who, in Series Two, helps him reopen the one case that still haunts him: his wife's murder.
Series
Midsomer murders volume 22
Publisher
[Acorn]
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
The English village mystery gets a contemporary spin in this hit British television series that has earned a worldwide following. Bucolic settings harbor macabre crimes and eccentric characters that are no match for DCI John Barnaby and his assistant, DS Jamie Winter. Delightful in a murderously charming way.
11) Hidden: Series 2
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Detectives Cadi John and Owen Vaughan investigate the brutal murder of a former school teacher, but a group of local teenagers knows more about what happened than they are letting on. 'Nail-biting, (and) confidently stylish' (The Guardian), this compelling Welsh crime drama has been hailed 'best in class' by the New York Times.
Publisher
Acorn
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
When Sydney socialite Daisy Munroe and London lawyer Louis Oakley inherit a New Zealand vineyard, they quickly learn that they are not the 'sole heirs' as they believed and that the estate itself is a dilapidated money pit. The disenchanted duo want nothing more than to sell up, split up, and get out of there. But when they get an unexpected taste of success, they wonder if the vineyard may not be worthless after all. Despite never having done a hard...
Publisher
Acorn
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
In this unique police procedural drama, DS Jack Weston, DC Charlie Steele, and DI Martha Bellamy investigate a series of crimes in modern-day London. These eight episodes are unscripted, and the actors improvise all dialogue. This fascinating drama explores both the mysteries involved in police work and the relationships between the investigators.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Portuguese
Description
In 1936 Portugal, the opulent Vidago Palace hotel is a haven for Europe's elite from the Spanish Civil War erupting across the border. Beautiful young aristocrat Carlota arrives at the resort to plan her wedding to the wealthy Cesar, which will save her family from bankruptcy. But her heart is preoccupied with thoughts of Pedro, the handsome son of the hotel's concierge.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
In Season Eighth of this delightful detective show, joy and heartbreak await Det. William Murdoch and his friends in turn-of-the-century Toronto. After his brutal beating by the dockyard gang, Inspector Brackenreid's future remains uncertain. Constable Crabtree faces life-altering changes, including a new romance, while Dr. Emily Grace and Dr. Julia Ogden join the women's suffrage movement. And in the show's 100th episode, wedding bells ring as Murdoch...
Publisher
Acorn
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
In a seemingly quiet country town in New Zealand, Detective Inspector Mike Shepherd finds that murder can happen anywhere. Working alongside Detective Constable Kristin Sims, Shepherd solves grisly murders in this gripping and well-written series.
Series
Midsomer murders volume 15
Publisher
Acorn
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
The cozy villages of Midsomer County reveal their most sinister secrets behind the well-trimmed hedges.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
When an angry client firebombs her offices, consulting solicitor Josephine Newton is forced to take a new job as a barrister at Knox, a high-powered legal firm where her old flame Lewis works. Worried about leaving behind her former clients turned colleagues, Josephine sets up a new legal office in the building's basement for Johnny, a reformed car thief, and Helena, a brilliant legal mind with a crippling fear of courtrooms.