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Image provided by Acorn TV/All3Media.              As much as I love mysteries, I am surprised to say The Brokenwood Mysteries took me awhile to get into.   I believe there are two main reasons for this.   First, before I started the series, I heard it compared to Midsomer Murders .   With this in mind, I came into this series thinking the mysteries were going to be as weird and quirky as they are on Midsomer .   They are not.   The Brokenwood mysteries are much more straight forward with not only the methods of the murders but also the reasons behind them.   Second, I watched the first season episodes spread very far apart.   With probably a month or more between each one, I kept having to re-familiarize myself with the characters and what happened in the past episodes.   The second season, however, I had to get from the library .   With such a short time to watch all four episodes, I was able to sit and enjoy all that was going on instead of trying to remember what the char

Image provided by Acorn/RLJE .           I am now done with yet another series.  Not done in the sense that I’m simply waiting for more DVDs to be released, but done because the entire series has finished.   New Tricks ended after twelve seasons.   With the completion of the last DVD, I have seen, to my knowledge, every episode ever made.   Since the last time I wrote about this series a lot has happened.   Let me catch you up.         The Unsolved Crime and Open Case Squad started with four members: retired police officers Jack Halford (James Bolam), Gerry Standing (Dennis Waterman), and Brian Lane (Alun Armstrong); as well as current police officer Detective Superintendent Sandra Pullman (Amanda Redman).   For many years this was the team.   Then Jack found out he was terminally ill and moved to France.   Steve McAndrew (Denis Lawson) came from Scotland and took his place.   About a year later, Brian was fired for giving a victim’s mother a secret recording of a man confes

                For an entire year I have awaited the release of this book.   Ever since I finished the last one, A Pattern of Lies , I could not wait for this book to come out.   I had to find out what happened between Simon Brandon and Bess!   Would they finally get together?   Would the war finally end?   None of those things I knew, which is why I looked for months to see when the newest book in the Bess Crawford Mystery series was going to come out.   Once I got the book, it only took me a few days to read.   It would have probably taken even less time if it weren’t for the U.S. Open .   Without that event to watch, I probably would have gotten through this book the first or second day it was in my possession.   That is how much I love this series.   I can never wait until the next book comes out.   Then once I have it, I’m not able to put it down.                             World War I nurse, Bess Crawford, is stunned when she hears one of her patients speaking fluent Ge