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The latest in the Ruby Herring series of mysteries from Hallmark has Taylor Cole getting a new job at her Seattle TV station changing from consumer reporter to crime reporter. A move that doesn't please all her colleagues but does give her some semi-official status for her work.

It also makes working with her police detective friend Stephen Huszar a bit easier. Their case is a reopened cold case of the murder of a psychic, shot while she was given a reading.

I have to commend the producers of the Ruby Herring series for having Mig Macario's rather openly and stereotypically gay character as part of the seriees. Macario plays Cole's friend and confidante and maybe thie could lead to a feature with some gay overtones in the plot.

6/10 - HMM is pretty par-for-the-course; nothing bad, but nothing extraordinary

Wow....incredibly bad acting, especially from John Wesley Shipp who plays Ruby's dad...surprised they keep making these.

I'm a big fan of Taylor Cole! I know these Ruby Herring Mysteries are not her finest roles, but that is in great part due to the writing. This episode, Prediction Murder, is much better than the previous two. Considering the 100's of movies that Hallmark produces annually, for our enjoyment, I think the series has a chance to grow. We shouldn't complain about the repetition of predictable ending and familiar plots or we could lose it all together. Just watch something else if you don't appreciate Hallmark type productions.

TV reporter Ruby Herring (Taylor Cole) is promoted to the crime beat. The police is reopening a cold murder case of a psychic from five years ago. After getting an anonymous clue, she investigates with help from her father (John Wesley Shipp) and police detective partner Jake Killian (Stephen Huszar).

This is the third in the Hallmark series. At least, she is now a crime reporter which makes her solving crimes a lot more reasonable. The series continues to have a chemistry issue. The guy is as stiff as a board. Cole could do something more with a better partner. I wonder if a change is possible at this point. Maybe in the next one, Jake gets killed and Ruby has to solve his murder. As for the murder case, it's not that well written. It's just questioning one character after another. It's not actually a partnership which suggests going it alone is a perfectly fine option.

I really enjoyed this one. But found myself annoyed that when the character of Gladys kept looking familiar i couldn't figure out who she was by looking here. Thankfully the credits at the end listed her. Her name is BJ Harrison, and I was right I've seen her in several other things.

This is not my favorite mystery solving duo in the Hallmark Mystery Movie franchise. I am afraid I am more of an Aurora Teagarden and Hannah Swensen fan...and I am really warming to the Mystery 101 series. This series is somewhere in the middle of the pack for me.

Actually living in Seattle, I am somewhat annoyed with these series saying they are in Seattle but yet not actually being filmed here. Wrong high schools, wrong buses, wrong boats, wrong mountains, wrong police cars, wrong architecture....just wrong wrong wrong. That is annoying. Just say it is Vancouver or California or whatever...who cares?!?!? The mysteries are about the small details, yet no one is paying attention to the small details in the series. Jake and Ruby do not have the best on screen chemistry...which let's face it is why I really watch these "mysteries".

Will I keep watching? Maybe, unless there is something better out there...and right now I am really enjoying Turkish TV!

This is the third movie in the Ruby Herring Mysteries series but it's even more painful than the others in terms of script, direction, pacing and acting. It also has more of a video quality which adds to the feeling that one is watching a high school play.

I usually enjoy Hallmark Mysteries. They are bubblegum for the brain and a great antidote to 2020 blues.

This series is just adequate/mediocre and a real disappointment.

The real problem is with the acting. It's so bad in some places that I wasn't really paying attention to the story, I was just staring in awe waiting for it to improve. The worst offender was John Wesley Shipp who played John Herring/Dad. He used to be quite a decent actor. I don't know what happened but he was ham fisted, flat and his timing was off.

Taylor Cole as Ruby Herring is as wooden as ever and always seems conscious of where the camera is to show off her cheek bones and tilt her head.

Stephen Huszar as Jake Killian was pretty good, although how he managed the performance he gave with the co-stars he was working with is a mystery. I'm not entirely sure I'd be able to keep a straight face.

I tried, I really did. I wanted to love this series but I won't be wasting my time on any more of these. Hallmark have much better scripts and actors to waste time on this. I hope Stephen Huszar finds something better.

I enjoyed the first in this series but as the Episodes continue it's all so uninteresting and improbable.

Big changes are in store for consumer investigations reporter Ruby (Cole), who after solving two murders has been upgraded to the crime beat. She can finally poke into these cases like it's her job and starts chasing down leads right away when someone leaves a note on her doorstep. The clue helps her find a gun that was used in the killing of psychic Rose Vitello. Rose's killing went unsolved and predictably, none of the suspects are eager to revisit the crime. They don't have a choice though when Detective Jake Killian is at hand.

Some of the suspects are Rival psychic Travis Tru, Rose's ex-boyfriend and Richard, also comes under scrutiny, as well as Rose's estranged daughter, Emily.

Despite some good acting, humour and a good pace, this is a bit of a flat tyre, especially in the first half, but picks up a little but doesn't raise up above average. Ticks the boxes for a time pass.

The only thing that's a mystery here is why they keep making this garbage. The writing is awful, and the acting is worse. It was almost painful to watch. Several of the actors should get awards for their over-acting, especially the psychic that was just too fake to be believable as anything. The worst of the lot was "Captain Kirk" - the sea captain who was such a bad actor that he should get two awards one for "bad acting" and the other for "worst attempt to be believable as a sea captain". The only one that was believable was Ruby's ex - he was so insipid it makes sense that she broke up with him. All in all a waste of 2 hours.

What's happened to Taylor Cole ? I had to look twice to see if it was really her. Always a fan of hers from her previous output of films, but the long hair and thicker eyebrows almost make her unrecognisable from the shorter bob she used to sport. Not everyone suits longer hair, so please have the chop Taylor !

It's a two thumbs down for this movie.



Also it's a -10 out of 10 stars