Mysteries on TV: Criminal Minds and Inspector Lynley

Mystery television series being released this week on DVD:

An elite team of FBI profilers who analyze the country's most twisted criminal minds are featured in Criminal Minds, Season 2. The series stars Mandy Patinkin as Senior Supervisory Special Agent Jason Gideon of the Behaviorial Analysis Unit. Each member of the team brings his or her own area of expertise to the table as they pinpoint predators' motivations and identify their emotional triggers in the attempt to stop them.

Criminal Minds first aired on CBS in September 2005. This DVD set includes all 23 episodes from the second season.

For more information on Criminal Minds, visit the series website on CBS.com.

Four mystery movies are featured on Inspector Lynley, Set 5. Starring Nathaniel Parker as Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley and Sharon Small as Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers, the series is based on characters created by mystery author Elizabeth George.

The four movies included on this set, originally shown in the UK on BBC-1 during the summer of 2006 and in the US on PBS in September 2006, are: Natural Causes, One Guilty Deed, Chinese Walls, and In the Blink of an Eye.

For more information, visit the Inspector Lynley Mysteries website on PBS.org.

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