Emma Fielding Mysteries: More Bitter Than Death

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.

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!!!????

Enjoyed it but Mark Valley has got to go. Get out of here with that stupid fake accent. Horrible. At first I thought he was joking with the accent. Then he spoke without it. Then with it. I thought he was just playing around. LOL He's just as bad as he was back when he played Jack on Days of Our Lives. Enjoyed the rest of the actors. I'm missing the Garage Sale Mysteries so much. Was my favorite. But these will do. Courtney is fun to watch.

He tried to sound British but it sounded a bit Australian at times as well...? Accent came and went. It took away from the show, especially since the show is about history and artifacts and clearly his accent was not even close to believable.

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.