Lesley Sharp
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
From UK bestselling author Gillian McAllister comes an astonishing, compulsively twisty psychological thriller about a mother who witnesses her teenage son stab a man and then seizes on an unconventional way to try to save him. Can you stop a murder after it's already happened? Late October. After midnight. You're waiting up for your seventeen-year-old son. He's late. As you watch from the window, he emerges, and you realize he isn't alone: he's walking...
2) Bad tourists
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Three tight-knit friends embark on an extravagant divorce trip to the Maldives where they can unwind and celebrate a new chapter in midlife - until they realize the resort of their dreams is harboring a killer"--
Best friends Darcy, Camilla, and Kate escape for a post-divorce retreat in the Maldives, the perfect place to relax, reset, and embrace a fresh start in life. Darcy is learning how to be a free woman at forty-two. Camilla has found the...
Publisher
BBC Worldwide
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
All eight episodes from the second series of the TV detective drama. Suranne Jones and Lesley Sharp star as two homicide detectives working for the Greater Manchester Major Incident Team. As Janet Scott (Sharp) and Rachel Bailey (Jones) investigate a string of macabre crimes across the city, they must also face up to some harsh truths in their own personal lives.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
When Detective Inspector Hannah Laing kisses her married lover Sean Hardacre goodbye one morning, she never imagines it will be the last time she will see her fellow detective alive. But Sean goes missing and his body is recovered the next day. Determined to find whoever is responsible, Hannah accesses one of Sean's confidential contacts and persuades 'Issy' to help her with Sean's investigation into a Croatian family, the Mimicas, who are using their...
Language
English
Description
"When the steel mills of Sheffied, England are closed, Gaz and thousands of other workers are left unemployed and unsure of their roles as men. Depressed and facing a custody battle for his son, Gaz happens across a show of male strippers ... and the answer to his problems is laid bare! Recruiting a ragtag group of friends into an unsightly stripper group, Gaz is putting on a show of his own to get his life back on track. But to ensure their performance...
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014?]
Language
English
Description
University lecturer Robert Bridge feels skeptical about all things paranormal until he meets Alison Mundy, who has seen and heard spirits since she was a child. Robert thinks she's the real deal, a genuine psychic who risks her life to help people heal from relationships torn apart by death. He's in for a shock, though, when Allison tries to help him accept the accidental killing of his own son.
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Scott & Bailey is a thrilling investigative drama series exploring the personal and professional lives of two female detectives. Despite their differences, impulsive, funny and single Rachel and reflective, married mother-of-two Janet, have a great partnership. Thrown together in the toughest of murder cases, they have become the best of friends, ready to support each other both in and away from the incident room. Each episode sees Rachel and Janet...
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
The story of a young girl who had to go into hiding during World War II for being different. Anne Frank's diary manages to create a truthful and timeless picture of domestic life in all its pettiness and normalcy, while never letting us forget the extraordinary threat of death that awaits the characters if they are discovered. This is the first authorized film based on actual entries of the real diary.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Detective Inspector Hannah Laing and crime matriarch Dubravka Mimica are two mothers on opposite sides of the law. Both lost their sons in Season One -- Hannah's son fell in love with Bianca Mimica and fled overseas while Dubravka's son is missing, presumed dead. While Dubravka seeks revenge, Hannah must finish the job her son started and expose the Mimica gang"--Container.
Publisher
BBC Worldwide
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Rachel Bailey and Janet Scott are back for another season. Upon stepping into the position of acting DI, Rachel senses the growing divide amongst her team. With Janet preoccupied by the arrest of her daughter and unable to advise on the situation, the two are left struggling to refocus on the horrific case at hand, the sinister world of Darknet.
Publisher
BBC Worldwide
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Second series of the investigative crime drama exploring the personal and professional lives of two female detectives. Detective Constable Rachel Bailey is 30, down-to-earth, noisy, argumentative and single. Her partner, Detective Constable Janet Scott, is 40, a diplomat and a thinker, as well as being a wife and mother. They both work for Manchester Metropolitan Police's prestigious Murder Investigation Team.
Publisher
BBC Worldwide
Pub. Date
[2015].
Language
English
Description
Battle-scarred from their conflict, Rachel and Janet decide to move forward with focus and honesty. But when they both pass the promotion board with flying colours, it falls to Gill to choose who stays on as Sergeant at Syndicate 9, and their newfound harmony is threatened. Rachel's self-doubt sees her struggle with balancing her ambition with a new relationship, which may just be the best she's ever had. Meanwhile, Janet's home life throws up some...
13) Naked
Series
Criterion collection volume 307
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Language
English
Formats
Description
Johnny is a charming and eloquent, but relentlessly vicious drifter. Rejecting anyone who might care for him, the volcanic Johnny hurls himself through a nocturnal odyssey around London, colliding with a succession of other desperate and dispossessed people, and scorching everyone in his path. With a virtuoso script and raw performances, Mike Leigh's picture of England's underbelly is an amalgam of black comedy and doomsday prophecy.
14) The moonstone
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
A stolen Hindu diamond, the Moonstone, works its curse after being stolen from it's shrine. Just before Rachel's birthday, a man named Franklin Blake announces to Rachel that the Moonstone has been bequeathed to her by Herncastle. Blake gives her the jewel on her birthday and offers to mount the jewel for her to wear. The jewel goes missing and Rachel believes that Blake stole it. Determined to prove his innocence, Blake leaves in order to pursue...
15) Red Riding
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
These three separate but interrelated films move unflinchingly through a turbulent and tragic decade in the West Riding region of Yorkshire, England. Serial murders, child abductions and rampant police corruption abound -- no one escapes undamaged.
Publisher
BBC
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Alison accepts that the spirits she has seen since she was a child will never leave her. After nearly dying during a seance in which she was inhabited by the spirit of Robert's dead son, she determines that the dead should not dictate her life and she wants to help the living. Robert, meanwhile, is in turmoil. Once a total skeptic, his beliefs have been shaken by what he witnessed at the seance and he now struggles to make sense of his life.
Publisher
BBC Worldwide
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Battle-scarred from their conflict, Rachel and Janet decide to move forward with focus and honesty. But when they both pass the promotion board with flying colours, it falls to Gill to choose who stays on as Sergeant at Syndicate 9, and their newfound harmony is threatened. Rachel's self-doubt sees her struggle with balancing her ambition with a new relationship, which may just be the best she's ever had. Meanwhile, Janet's home life throws up some...
18) Carrie's war
Series
Masterpiece theatre's family collection volume disc 1
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Language
English
Description
At the start of World War II, 14-year-old Carrie and her younger brother Nick are separated from their mother and evacuated from war-torn London to a rural village in Wales, where they now live with a puritanical shopkeeper and his spinster sister.