Festin mortel

With this series, the mystery is so tied up in money and business that it's boring. Maggie is always incompetent as a detective; whether not being sneaky AT ALL, always getting knocked out or incapacitated in some way, etc. Their relationship has no warmth or romance at all. I think the stories could be better if it were acted out better.

The warmth between Maggie and Henry was gone. I know Maggie was supposed to be mad at him for not sharing more of his personal life, but their chemistry was DOA. Not to mention movie flaws. When Maggie and Henry go into the barn to talk with a suspect, Maggie is wearing spiked heels. When they walk out to find Colin, she is wearing flats. Contrary to what producers and directors think, the TV audience is not stupid. We pick up on all of these bloopers and it really makes television shows and movies look cheap. Im my opinion the Gourmet Detective series is done. They would have to do some real CPR on it to try and save it. I loved the first 3 but really disappointed with this one.

Anything with bruce boxlighter in it, well, its like trying to watch a cat eat a porkypine

In this Gourmet Detective Mystery Dylan Neal is catering a party with an 18th century motif and his new friend Detective Brooke Burns is along as a date. Good thing to when a homicide occurs.

But what a homicide. Back in the times depicted a publishing dynasty started when ownership was decided over a duel. So the duel is re-enacted by stepbrothers. Only one of the guns has a real bullet and one of the duelists dies.

The suspects start with the family patriarch and the three surviving offspring. The father had a son and daughter by his first marriage and on' his second marriage he adopts the second wife's son and daughter from her previous marriage. It really sounds like a recipe for one of those nighttime soap operas from the 80s.

With 3 surviving kids to start and various romantic and business associates you have a healthy mix of suspects.

Bruce Boxleitner makes an appearance as Neal's retired detective father. These two have a strained relationship, but progress is made in repairing it a bit.

Good story and frankly I didn't pick the right perpetrator.

What a boring movie. Like all the Canadian movies. It's like a soap but in a movie. We can count on one hand all the good movies Canadians did