Emma Fielding Mysteries: More Bitter Than Death

Borderline unwatchable for all scenes involving Mark Valley whose English accent is so appalling it actually gives me a headache to listen to it.

Courtney Thorne-Smith is back once again as our female Indiana Jones, Emma Fielding and this time she's back at Kenzer College. During the course of a banquet some valuable art is ripped off and when it resumes the president of the college who is retiring collapses and dies at the podium.

The theft, the death of the president and some secret society like Yale's Skull And Bones are all interconnected, but not quite in the way you would think. Emma Fielding's young friend Adam DiMarco was thinking of joining the elite group, but finds them not worthy of his time and the members not worthy of his company.

FBI agent James Tupper is back as well to lend a bit of legality to Smith's sleuthing. Looks like the Emma Fielding series will go on.

I love this series , I have seen a couple more , and have really enjoyed them.

There is something so likable about the two leads (Courtney Thorne Smith and James Tupper) , such a cute couple.

As a murder mystery whodunnit , it works !

Murder by poison , usual list of suspects , enough clues to help us figure it out, not too complicated.

And that is exactly what this movie is meant to do ..... entertain and amuse us !

And it works , I loved it .

Jim Conner scrubs up well in a smart suit, compared with his persona as the scruffy FBI agent of previous mysteries, but then he does have to up the ante if he wants to compete for Emma's affections with the suave archaeologist with the Savile Row rip-off tailoring and the dodgy British accent. Meanwhile, as usual, she is more than capable of fighting off the villain herself leaving the rivals literally on the floor yet dapper as before. The mystery is why Courtney Thorne Smith's Emma would even give Mark Valley's Duncan Thatcher a second glance when she can have James Tupper's Jim Conner - the down to earth real man with a taste for burgers and casual wear rather than the fake Englishman with his tux, faux accent and caviar.

She just happened to remember a tunnel system they ran under campus buildings but when the museum was built no one thought to be sure it couldn't be broken into and the square in the floor was left there? And she lifted 2 blocks of flooring up like they we're nothing and yet nothing seemed to support them and no floor joists ran through those spots. What!!!????