Murder in a Small Town – Strangers Among Us

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  • Title: Murder in a Small Town – Strangers Among Us
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Although the mystery of the week is relatively simple in “Strangers Among Us,” surrounding a shooting, there are quite a few pieces at play in the episode including a bullied teenager (Jaden Rain) who winds up with the murder weapon leading to child (Roman Kinsella) in a standoff with the police, an unsolved homicide, relationship drama for Laila (Bethany Brown), the resources of the department being stretched thin, and Cassandra (Kristin Kreuk) uncovering a possible connection that might reveal a larger mystery to be delved into later in the season.

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Haunted Harmony Mysteries: Buried at C

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  • Title: Haunted Harmony Mysteries: Buried at C
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Haunted Harmony Mysteries: Buried at C offers another mystery for music teacher turned amateur sleuth Gethsemane Brown (Tamera Mowry-Housley) to solve. Of course she’s got an unfair advantge with the help of her ghostly pal Eamon (Risteard Cooper), who can witness and overhear things she cannot, and being able to talk directly to the first murder victim in a sea captain (Gerry O’Brien) killed at sea. The mystery also involves the death of the captain’s murderer (a ghost Gethsemane doesn’t communicate with, likely because the case would be solved immediately), a long lost violin, and revenge.

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Killer Heat

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  • Title: Killer Heat
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Killer Heat is a flaccid attempt at neo-noir starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt as a private detective hired by a widow (Shailene Woodley) to look into the death of her husband (Richard Madden). The film is also burdened with a subplot of the family life our private investigator fled from which haunts him (when convient to the script). Adapted from a Norwegian short story, I don’t know if something got lost in translation or if there just wasn’t much here to begin with.

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