My Current Interest

Image provided by Acorn/RLJ Entertainment.               I am honestly not sure how I came to discover Case Histories .   Most likely it was previewed before something like New Tricks or MidsomerMurders , but I don’t remember for sure.   Not that it really matters in the end.   How I found a show, film, or book doesn’t mean it will be any better or worse than if I found it a different way.   What does matter is that I enjoyed watching Case Histories .   In fact, I enjoyed it so much, I really wish there was more than two seasons of it.                    Former police officer, and current private detective, Jackson Brodie (Jason Isaacs) solves cases in a very haphazard way.   I say this because Jackson gets beaten up all the time.   He’s always in one fight or another and it is rare that he doesn’t have some type of mark or scar on his face.   Despite this (and I must say Jackson usually does win the fight), Jackson keeps investigating the jobs he has been hired to do until

             I’m always excited when I find a new mystery series to explore.   Sometimes I find I don’t really like what I’m reading and don’t bother to even finish the book.   Other times I find myself not wanting to put the book down.   With A Potion to Die For , I started out feeling the first way, but it did not take long for my feelings to turn to the second.                 Carly Bell Hartwell is a witch.   She owns a potions shop where she only makes spells and potions for positive results.   She does not have any interest in making anything that will cause harm and distress.   This is why is it so shocking when a body shows up in her shop holding one of her bottles.   Carly recognizes the man but she hardly knew him, so it doesn’t make sense that she would kill him.   Why his body is in her shop (which was completely locked, by the way) is a mystery.   A mystery Carly is determined to solve. Of course, this is easier said than done.   When the news of the body gets out,

Image provided by Acorn TV/RLJE.           I have seen my final Foyle.   After doing my best to stretch out the series to make it last longer, I have now seen every episode of Foyle’s War .   My viewing ended a lot sooner than I would have liked.   Instead of getting the last six episodes one at a time as I prefer, I had to borrow them in their respective season sets.   This forced me to watch seasons seven and eight in a matter of about two weeks, ending a series I would have loved to carry on longer.   It is a series I am truly sad to see go, and I believe it will be hard to find one just as good to replace it.             Since I’ve written about Foyle’s War before, I’m going to start off by telling you what has happened since I left off.   Oddly enough, even though there have been five seasons since my last post on this subject, for most of the series not a lot changed.   Detective Chief Superintendent Christopher Foyle (Michael Kitchen) continued to solve cases with the