An excellent TV series.

Murder in a Small Town is a Canadian mystery–drama television series which premiered on Global in Canada, and Fox in the United States on September 24, 2024. …

It is based on the Alberg and Cassandra Mysteries, a series of novels by L. R. Wright.

It was filmed at Gibsons on British Columbia’s Sunshine Coast.

In Canada, I watched it free (ad supported) on the Global TV website — but it was a pain.

The romance is consummated half way through the first episode.

Rossif Sutherland — son of the Donald — is the small town police chief.

The gorgeous Kristin Kreuk was a gymnast in Vancouver until grade 11. She’s of Dutch and Chinese Jamaican descent.

The entire cast is good.

Mya Lowe as Corporal Edwina Yen is great. You might recognize her from Yellowjackets.

I’m impressed that the show is nuanced on subjects like racism. And sexual harassment.

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I’m somewhat disappointed.

Excellent source books, the Alex Cross series. Excellent cast. …

I’d fire the writers. This TV drama should have been much better.

In the books, Alex Cross is a savant, using forensic psychology to analyze killers’ minds, delving into victims’ psyches to identify murderers and bring them to justice.

In season 1 he’s no Sherlock. Too angry. Too distracted. His overwhelming grief does not work for me.

He hardly does anything right.

Disappointing.

Isaiah Mustafa as Detective John Sampson, Alex’s Washington, D.C. Metro Police Department partner is very good, however. Much like in the books.

The bad guy — the “fanboy killer” is very well portrayed by Ryan Eggold. That performance cannot be faulted either.

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My GUESS is that the writers will learn from their mistakes. I expect season 2 to be much better.

This 2002 book is excellent.

Gone for Good has a complicated and surprising plot.

As a boy, Will Klein had a hero: his older brother, Ken.

Then, on a warm suburban night in the Kleins’ affluent New Jersey neighborhood, a young woman—a girl Will had once loved—was found raped and murdered in her family’s basement.

The prime suspect: Ken Klein.

With the evidence against him overwhelming, Ken simply vanished …

10 years later Will’s girlfriend simply vanishes. Or was she murdered?

Netflix adapted the book into a TV series set in France.

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Excellent.

Ashley Elston was a YA author before this HIT adult novel in 2024.

I assumed First Lie Wins would be just another in the predictable series of psychological thrillers.

It’s much more than that.

“This fast-paced read has everything you could want in a thriller: secret identities, a mysterious boss and a cat & mouse game that kept me guessing the whole way through.”
—Reese Witherspoon

“Prepare to trust no one on this high-speed thrill ride through timelines, identities, and motives as you work to piece together Elston’s expertly crafted puzzle. First Lie Wins is a fun, clever spin on the con artist novel …
—Ashley Winstead, author of Midnight is the Darkest Hour

For me, it started to drag before the end. Many of the twists and turns needed explaining.

She also wanted to set-up for an inevitable sequel.

It’s already being adapted for TV.

Tracker is … based on the 2019 novel The Never Game by Jeffery Deaver, one of my favourite authors.

The series stars Justin Hartley as Colter Shaw, a skilled survivalist and tracker who earns his living by assisting law enforcement and private citizens in exchange for reward money.

Justin Hartley is that super charismatic guy from This Is Us.

He’s a credible action hero.

This is a cable TV drama on CBS, not streaming.

Therefore it’s written in scenes between commercial breaks. (I don’t watch ads. It now streams on Disney+.)

Simple stories that have to wrap-up in hurry. Easy to watch.

All that said — it’s very popular.

It’s set all over North America, while being filmed in British Columbia.

I quite like Eric Graise as Bobby Exley, Tracker’s hacker.

Tracker is one of the few current cable scripted TV show’s I can recommend.

Jeffrey Archer is a terrific story teller.

Now age 84, he’s determined to finish his William Warwick series.

• Nothing Ventured (2019)
• Hidden in Plain Sight (2020)
• Turn a Blind Eye (2021)
• Over My Dead Body (2021)
• Next in Line (2022)
• Traitor’s Gate (2023)
• An Eye for an Eye (2024)

William begins his career, after leaving university in 1970, as a constable on the beat. You follow the lives of William, his friends, family, colleagues and adversaries over five tumultuous decades, until William finally becomes Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police in 2022, not without many setbacks along the way.

He first becomes a detective in the art squad, and through his career moves through drugs, murder, royal protection, Olympic Games security and finally counter terrorism – with several triumphs and a few disasters in between.

A backdrop of colourful characters, including his remarkable wife Beth, The Hawk, his boss, Inspector Ross Hogan, his closest friend, and often the cause and sometimes the solutions of his problems, Princess Diana, The Crown, and Miles Faulkner, a brilliant and resourceful criminal who dogs his path and chance of promotion at every opportunity.

An Eye for an Eye is a drama revolving around a potential arms deal between Saudi Arabia and Great Britain. William is now Scotland Yard’s Chief Superintendent.

The arms deal is complicated by a murder — and international intrigue.

Meanwhile, villain Miles Faulkner has been released from prison, intent on ruining the lives of William and his wife Beth.

This one is excellent, as are all in the series.

A TV adaptation is planned.

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