Enquêtes gourmandes

This is a great jumpstart to the Gourmet Detective mystery series.

There are some good twists and turns in this initial mystery...but the best part of the show is the great banter between Henry and Maggie. Their relationship gets off to a real rocky start when Maggie meets Henry at a cooking class where she takes umbrage at his title detective as she is a real detective. Then they meet again at an actual murder at a gathering of who's who in the food industry in San Francisco. Because of Henry's deep knowledge and connection to all of the suspects, the captain pairs Maggie and Henry together to solve the case.

Wonderful series that you should watch.

This was such a good series with an above average support cast with Bruce Boxleitner and Samantha Ferris, it seems they let the good shows go. Personally I would love to see a film with the older support actors in the Hallmark stable with Bruce Boxleitner and. Marilu Henner.

I decided to watch this movie because of Dylan Neal; I've seen him in a few other movies and always enjoyed his performances. It started off great; he's charming, and the movie seemed like a fun little whodunnit with a twist.

And then Brooke Burns (aka the sour-faced dragon lady from hell) opened her freaky lips and spewed unwarranted aggressive bitchiness (and I say opened her lips because I've never seen anyone so clenched and uptight that their jaw couldn't move when they spoke). And she didn't stop until about 3/4 of the way through the movie, when she actually seemed human for the first time. Seriously, dial it down, lady! I nearly packed it in after ten minutes because she was so intolerably annoying.

But hey, I've watched far worse and this did turn out to be an okay little time waster. Not especially taxing on the intellect in terms of working out who did what, but still a bit of fun. Worth a watch if you come across it.

I've watched many of the light mysteries on HMM, including all 17 Aurora Teagardens, and all five of these. While Aurora's gang has proven most entertaining, it's not really 3.5 times better than this series. I realize the food premise limits the number of possible story lines, but Brooke Burns is terrific, and the way Dylan Neal depends on her toughness, while yearning for more than a partners-in-crime-solving relationship, makes them the most appealing duo the network has offered.

As Oliver Twist said at mealtime, "Please, sir, I want some more."

Hallmark is missing the boat. They keep forcing series that don't flow and miss this one. I think it's one of the two best on all hallmark. I agre3 Brooke isn't Candace but her repertoire with her lead is better. Candace may be better actress but I like this better. Give me more of these hallmark.