Dead Over Heels: An Aurora Teagarden Mystery

Given the current climate in this country - unrest, frustration, unhappiness, bad news every time you turn around, Hallmark has come into its own.

After years of being a sweetness and light network of small-town family values and chaste romance, it's in vogue. People want to watch attractive stars they know from soap operas or prime time comedies in light romances and mysteries with happy endings and no bad language.

Though it's obviously geared toward fundamentalist religious parts of the country - you can tell by the Bible and holy water ads - lots of people who fall outside this group are now addicted to Hallmark, people you'd never expect. And who can blame them?

Dead Over Heels: An Aurora Teagarden Mystery is from 2017, and it's an episode of the mystery series that stars pert Candace Cameron Bure. She plays a librarian and amateur sleuth.

Aurora has a chaste relationship with her boyfriend (Yannick Bisson), and in some of the episodes, lives with her real estate broker mother (Marilu Henner). Aurora runs a mystery club that discusses old unsolved murder cases.

In this particular episode, the police chief falls from a plane - dead - into Aurora's yard.

The stories are okay and inoffensive, the wide-eyed Bure is cute and familiar to audiences who saw her on "Full House."

The only problem I have is with the look of the show - all the women have long hair and sometimes can be hard to tell apart if you don't know the actresses very well. I'm not sure if this is because producers think that people have no sense of style in certain parts of the country or what.

Anyway, enjoyable.

In the last Aurora Teagarden Mystery our librarian sleuth bought a house that turned out to be a cold case crime scene which of course she solved. In this one Candace Cameron Bure first gets a heads up kind of visit from a police captain whom she's never been on friendly terms with. He was looking for Yannick Bisson formerly of the CIA and Aurora's steady. The next day he drops in on Cameron or rather his cadaver is thrown from a plane and lands in her front yard.

Now she's really part of the crime itself and our librarian with the aid of her sidekick Lexa Doig who as a newspaper reporter actually covering the story who can ask needed questions she decides to find out who went out of his way to involve her and more important try to frame Bisson. We learn also just what Bisson did at the CIA and he does have the skills to commit this and other homicides related to this crime.

On a side note Jim Thorburn a detective just returned to the force is trying awful hard to close the case on his own with an unofficial parallel investigation which is aimed at Bisson. You know that Roe Teagarden won't stand for.

The only clue I'll give readers is that this is someone with the skills to kill and the skills to frame.

Fans of the series should be pleased.

Not exactly the murders are the axis of story but situations, slices of humor, reactions of characters and Hallmark familiar ingredients , served by lighthearted misteries. A comfortant episode about new hunt of proofs and chain of theories of the same Aurora Teagarden , so charming acted by Cameron Bure.

I've been enjoying this series but now with this episode, 3 of the main female characters now all have the same shade of red hair? Did the budget not all Candace her usual bleached blonde?

I think this is the first time I was a bit irritated of Aurora as a character. There's just something so grating about how she handles herself and her relationships when it comes to her investigative nature. I feel like she only sees her reasoning but does not understand the concerns of people around her.

As for the plot, this one has a bit of holes in the story or feels way too big to weave into this low budget hallmark film. While I don't mind ridiculous cases there are times that logic just kicks in and sometimes sours the mood. I guess I just need to constantly remind myself that this is a cozy hallmark feel and take it too seriously.