Mystère et chrysanthèmes

If you like the other Hallmark Mysteries you will like this. I call them gentle mysteries because they are easy on the mind, they have no violence or blood shed in them.

Too too bad there are only three movies in this series. The story line is great...but...Brooke Shields...WOW! Why can't all actors in HM movies act like her. She was natural, spontaneous, didn't read the words off the page, she acted with nuance, none of the young actors of HM are as natural. What a joy.

Really enjoyed this movie.

She went to high school with Greg (it's later revealed that it was in the same grade), a man who APPEARS to easily be 15 years younger.

During the time the two hung out together, I kept waiting for Greg to ask Abby if her daughter Sydney were single.

Either Greg was in the (extremely!) gifted program, or Abby was one of the slow "kids."

In the "goofs" section, it is mentioned that Marco (or more precisely the actor playing him) is too young to have been a Sargent in the time period indicated. To me, that is much less of an issue, if for no other reason than the actor who plays him looks older than his IMDB age.

Another one of the "goofs" posts mentions an error in the captions. I noticed several others.

These Hallmark mysteries follow the same basic structure: a female amateur sleuth with a business of some sort that she has with a female partner, and the partner is constantly trying to talk her out of doing investigations on her own; they live in an idyllic small town.

Throw a story at it and it's done.

Brooke Shields stars in "The Flower Shop Mystery: Mum's the Word" for Hallmark. She plays Abby Knight, a widow with a teenage daughter who returns from New York City, where she worked as a lawyer, to her small home town. There she opens a flower shop.

On her opening day, Abby's car is hit by someone whom she learns later may have been fleeing a crime scene where a young man was murdered. She launches her own investigation, but then meets a good- looking ex-soldier (Brennan Elliott) who works as a bartender. The two of them work together.

The cast is of a higher level than the other mysteries, with Shields, Elliott, and Beau Bridges as Abby's father.

They just need to pay a little more attention to the scripts.

There were a series of mysteries some years ago - Jane Doe and Mystery Woman, both of which featured good actresses in the leads and were slower than molasses.

The flower shop, garage sale, and Teagarden mysteries move a little faster and have more energy behind them. They're light fare for someone who doesn't want to think for a couple of hours.

I saw Brooke Shields in person some years ago - even from where I was standing, I could tell first how tall she is, and then how graceful. At 51, she's still a beauty and always nice to see. But these films need to be brought up a notch.

Me and the wife really enjoyed watching this and we recommend it. James Welch Henderson Arkansas 9/12/21.