Stereotypical Hallmark (Let's add Acorn too.) cheap production, & seen many times before, borrowed script plots. Series checks all the public relation's selling points found in daytime soap for TV addicts as follows: Gender inclusion as one of the leads; romance w/eye candy actors (females usually blonde; males usiually a week's "manly" beard & tight t-shirt); personal issues to overcome; make-up is always perfect; clothing changes (never wrinkled) are frequent visual hooks; offbeat assistant researcher; crimes seldom seen; a cost saving meek capture of the least likely at the end.

6/10 - another just-average Hallmark feature presentation, but it is good to see Allison Sweeney again

Alison Sweeney having given up the Murder She Baked series is now a new female detective heroine for Hallmark. Meet Alex McPherson who does on line journalism in her podcast. She's come back home and is now doing podcast journalism. There are some of us who do get our information from that source.

Her first series of broadcasts concerns a friend from their teen years in the 1990s who disappeared. Her damaged car was abandoned and there was no trace of her. friend Lisa Durupt.

At the same time a prominent citizen died from that same town and it was thought he was poisoned. Of course the events are connected, but as you will see there is a reason why no one pursued that line of investigation.

Benjamin Ayres is Sweeney's good friend and print journalist who is of great assistance in opening his newspaper morgue files for research. It turns out they have a lot of interests in common including a search for the truth.

There are at least two more Chronicle Mysteries in the offing. I swear Hallmark is great at inventing the amateur female mystery story. None of these hip and chic women bear any resemblance to Ms. Jane Marple.