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1) The Batman
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Formats
Description
Batman must investigate Gotham City's hidden political corruption when the Riddler begins murdering key political figures.
2) Exposed
Publisher
Grindstone
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When a detective starts to investigate his partner's shocking death, he uncovers disturbing evidence of police corruption and a dangerous secret involving an unlikely young woman.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 DVD (129 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A crime-thriller about judicial cover-ups and corruption in Argentina, told through flashbacks. A retired criminal court investigator in Argentina writes a novel about a twenty-five-year-old, unresolved rape case that continues to haunt him.
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Description
In 1994, more than 300 Republicans under the command of obstructionist and rabble-rouser Congressman Newt Gingrich stood outside the U.S. Capitol to sign the Contract with America and put bipartisanship on notice. Twenty-five years later, on January 6, 2021, a bloodthirsty mob incited by President Trump invaded the Capitol. Dana Milbank sees a clear line from the Contract with America to the coup attempt. In the quarter century in between, Americans...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
In The Whistler, Lacy Stoltz investigated a corrupt judge who was taking millions in bribes from a crime syndicate. She put the criminals away, but only after being attacked and nearly killed. Three years later, and approaching forty, she is tired of her work for the Florida Board on Judicial Conduct and ready for a change. Then she meets a mysterious woman who is so frightened she uses a number of aliases. Jeri Crosby's father was murdered twenty...
Author
Description
Maya Andersson and Benji Ovich, two young people who left in search of a life far from the forest town, come home and joyfully reunite with their closest childhood friends. There is a new sense of optimism and purpose in the town, embodied in the impressive new ice rink that has been built down by the lake. Two years have passed since the events that no one wants to think about. Everyone has tried to move on, but there's something about this place...
Author
Series
In Death series volume 57
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"Lt. Eve Dallas is just home from a long overdue vacation when she responds to a call of an unattended death. The victim is Martin Greenleaf, retired Internal Affairs Captain. At first glance, the scene appears to be suicide, but the closer Eve examines the body, the more suspicious she becomes. An unlocked open window, a loving wife and family, a too-perfect suicide note-Eve's gut says it's a homicide. After all, Greenleaf put a lot of dirty cops...
Author
Series
Description
It’s 1971. Trash piles up on the streets, crime is at an all-time high, the city is careening towards bankruptcy, and a shooting war has broken out between the NYPD and the Black Liberation Army. Amidst this collective nervous breakdown furniture store owner and ex-fence Ray Carney tries to keep his head down and his business thriving. His days moving stolen goods around the city are over. It’s strictly the straight-and-narrow for him — until...
9) Serpico
Series
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
1 DVD (130 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 insert.
Description
Adaptation of a true story where a young New York police officer refuses to extort money from criminals as the other officers do. His fellow police officers turn against him when he seeks to expose the situation during a grand jury investigation.
10) The good turn
Author
Series
Cormac Reilly novels volume 3
Formats
Description
"Police corruption, an investigation that ends in tragedy and the mystery of a little girl's silence - three unconnected things that will prove to be linked by one small town. While Detective Cormac Reilly faces enemies at work and trouble in his personallife, Garda Peter Fisher is relocated out of Galway with the threat of prosecution hanging over his head. But even that is not as terrible as having to work for his overbearing father, the local copper...
11) Known to evil
Author
Series
Leonid McGill mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
325 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
Alfonse Rinaldo, the mysterious power-behind- the-throne at City Hall, the fixer who seems to control every little thing that happens in New York City, has a problem that even he can't fix--and he's come to Leonid McGill for help. It seems a young woman has disappeared, leaving murder in her wake, and it means everything to Rinaldo to track her down.
12) Oath of loyalty
Author
Series
Mitch Rapp novels volume 21
Description
When the president's power-hungry security adviser betrays him by leaking the true identity of his partner, Claudia Gold, Mitch Rapp has to race to neutralize the enemies conspiring against her. Rapp is faced with the seemingly impossible task of finding and stopping a killer whose business model is based on double-blind secrecy.
Author
Publisher
Kingston Imperial
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
393 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Exposes how powerful police unions and pro-police lawyers blocked Mayor Bill DeBlasio's efforts at reform and continue the system that allows hundreds of officers with severe misconduct charges to remain on the force.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
xix, 677 pages ; 24 cm.
Description
Based on hundreds of interviews with all the key players, a dramatic work of investigative reporting examines how Congress twice fumbled its best chance to hold accountable a president many considered one of the most dangerous in American history.
Author
Appears on list
Description
For most of the last hundred years, Biloxi was known for its beaches, resorts, and seafood industry. But it had a darker side. It was also notorious for corruption and vice, everything from gambling, prostitution, bootleg liquor, and drugs to contract killings. The vice was controlled by small cabal of mobsters, many of them rumored to be members of the Dixie Mafia. Keith Rudy and Hugh Malco grew up in Biloxi in the sixties and were childhood friends,...
16) State of play
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (128 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When D.C. reporter Cal McCaffrey is assigned to investigate the murder of an assistant to an up-and-coming politician, he uncovers a conspiracy that threatens to bring down the nation's power structures. In a town of spin-doctors and wealthy power brokers, he will discover one truth: when fortunes are at stake, no one's integrity, love, or life is safe.
17) Trash
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 114 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When two trash-picking boys from Rio's slums find a wallet in amongst the daily detritus of their local dump, little do they imagine that their lives are about to change forever. But when the local police show up, offering a handsome reward for the wallet's return, the boys, Rafael and Gardo, realize that what they've found must be important.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
Detective Lindsay Boxer and her husband Joe Molinari team up to protect San Francisco from an international war criminal in the newest Women's Murder Club thriller. Three female schoolteachers go missing in San Francisco, and Detective Lindsay Boxer is on the case-which quickly escalates from missing person to murder. Under pressure at work, Lindsay needs support at home. But her husband Joe is drawn into an encounter with a woman who's seen a ghost--a...
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