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1) Game night
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Max and Annie's weekly couples game night gets kicked up a notch when Max's charismatic brother, Brooks, arranges a murder mystery party, complete with fake thugs and faux federal agents. So, when Brooks gets kidnapped, it's all part of the game, right? But as the six uber-competitive gamers set out to solve the case and win, they begin to discover that neither this "game"-- nor Brooks--are what they seem to be. Over the course of one chaotic night,...
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"Kern County Deputy Sheriff Joe 'Deke' Deacon is sent to Los Angeles for what should have been a quick evidence-gathering assignment. Instead, he becomes embroiled in the search for a killer who is terrorizing the city. Leading the hunt, L.A. Sheriff's Department Sergeant Jim Baxter, impressed with Deke's cop instincts, unofficially engages his help. But as they track a suspect, Baxter is unaware that the investigation is dredging up echoes of Deke's...
4) Consecration
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After her brother dies under mysterious circumstances, Grace travels to the Mount Saviour Convent in Scotland to find out what really happened. Once there, she uncovers murder, sacrilege, and a shocking truth about her own past.
5) The dry
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For Aaron Falk, going back home is not going to be easy. After all, with the area facing an extreme drought, everyone is in a constant state of alert. It is against this strange backdrop that Falk stumbles into a mystery that is four decades old. Many years ago, a teenage girl died under mysterious circumstances. And the more that Falk investigates this cold case, the more he realizes that it may have something to do with the town's more recent tragedies....
6) Shaft
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JJ, aka John Shaft Jr., may be a cyber security expert with a degree from MIT, but to uncover the truth behind his best friend's untimely death, he needs an education only his dad can provide. Absent throughout JJ's youth, the legendary locked-and-loaded John Shaft agrees to help his progeny navigate Harlem's heroin-infested underbelly. And while JJ's own FBI analyst's badge may clash with his dad's trademark leather duster, there's no denying family....
8) Mindcage
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In this spellbinding thriller, detectives Jack Doyle and Mary Kelly seek the help of an incarcerated serial killer named The Artist after a copycat killer strikes. While Mary searches for clues in The Artist's brilliant but twisted psyche, she and Jack are lured into a diabolical game of cat and mouse, racing against time to stay one step ahead of The Artist and his copycat.
9) The nun II
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In 1956 France, a priest is murdered, and it seems an evil is spreading. Sister Irene once again comes face to face with a demonic force.
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"In this homage to Agatha Christie, set in England, an amateur detective finds herself caught up in a real-life whodunit! Miranda Green is summoned to the remote mansion of billionaire Lewis Findley along with five mysterious strangers. What do they all have in common? What's become of their absent host? And who just murdered one of the guests in cold blood? Now Miranda must hunt for hidden clues, interview witnesses, and find the killer before she...
11) Magpie murders
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"A successful author of Agatha Christie-style novels dies under suspicious circumstances, with his last book seemingly unfinished. This leaves two mysteries: What happened to him? And how does his latest potboiler end? Susan Ryeland, the author's book editor assumes the role of detective in the case while the fictional sleuth's investigation in the incomplete novel investigation parallels Susan's"--Container.
12) Acceptable risk
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When an executive for a global pharmaceutical company, Gumbiner-Fishcher, is found dead in Montreal, his wife Sarah's world is thrown into a tailspin. With the ensuing investigation led by garda Emer Byrne revealing more questions than answers, Sarah suddenly finds herself under suspicion, and her life under surveillance.
13) Deadwater Fell
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"Respected physician Tom and his schoolteacher wife, Kate, have a seemingly perfect life in their small Scottish community with their best friends, Jess and Steve. Until one night, when a fire ravages Tom and Kate's home, and Steve makes a disturbing discovery. As evidence builds that the fire was started by someone close to them, mistrust and suspicion tear the town apart, forcing Jess and Steve to question everything they know about their friends"--Container....
15) Blood: Series 1
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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...
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When a wealthy widow is found murdered, her married lover is accused of the crime. The lawyer defending him is in ill health and his only hope for acquittal is the testimony of the accused's wife, proving his alibi. However, she has some secrets of her own to reveal.
17) Canal Street
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A modern-day thriller about Kholi Styles, a young man who is trying to get by in an unwelcome world. When he becomes the suspect in a classmate's mysterious death, it's up to his father, Jackie Styles, an up-and-coming lawyer from the slums of Chicago, to defend his son in court and prove to an outraged public his son is not the monster the world has made him out to be.
18) Manhunt
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"When the battered body of a French student is found on Twickenham Green in London, hardworking and humble DCI Colin Sutton is appointed the lead detective on his first big case. After connecting the young woman's murder to a previous attack, Sutton embarks on a quest to catch a serial killer. With the press in a frenzy and the public demanding answers, his team grows discouraged as they find no motive, witnesses, or forensic evidence. But Sutton's...
19) Fallen angel
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Fox film noir volume 14
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"June Mills and her sister Clara live a quiet life in a small coastal town until Eric Stanton, a smooth-talking con man, comes into their lives. He seems to fall hard for June, but Clara believes he's interested only in the family fortune. Meanwhile, sultry waitress Stella catches Stanton's fancy and thinks he might be her ticket out of town. The local cop knows more than he's telling about his fellow citizens and their tangled relationships, which...
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"Cassie Bowden [is] a globe-trotting flight attendant with a devil-may-care attitude and a history of binge drinking, whose glamorous world is thrown into a tailspin when she wakes up next to a dead man with no idea what happened. Cassie scrambles to put together the pieces of a night in Bangkok gone terribly wrong, leading her to unsettling discoveries and more than a few illegal escapades. Season two finds Cassie living her best sober life in Los...