I found this episode of Garage Sale Mystery to be a step down from previous episodes, especially the last one--"The Deadly Room".
The writers continue to have the secondary characters behaving in ways that make no logical sense. This is particularly the case with Jennifer (Lori Loughlin) and the lead Detective, Detective Frank Lynwood (Kevin O'Grady).
A groom disappeared from his wedding back in 1979. Jennifer, in an estate sale has found the bride's wedding dress. Because it is an expensive original dress, Jennifer attempts to track down who the bride is. Being successful she learns about the mysterious disappearance, and then finds a handkerchief with dried blood on it, inside a pocket of the dress.
Asking Detective Lynwood to look into the cold case of the groom's disappearance, he reveals, at lunch, that the case was never solved. Jennifer reveals the handkerchief with blood that she found inside the wedding dress, and the detective shrugs, saying that the DA office has a saying, "no body, no crime", even though he admits that there was no mention of the bloody handkerchief in the police report at the time. The writers are making Detective Frank Lynwood either remarkably stupid or just lazy.
In either case, it is a boring portrayal, that harkens back to some of the worst aspects of 1970s and 80s private eye shows--where police are shown to be obstructionist at best, and inept, and corrupt at worst.
Jennifer's husband, Jason (Steve Bacic) is still visibly disapproving of Jennifer's detecting instincts--to the point that Jennifer keeps what she is doing from her husband, rather than have to deal with his scolding. Another tiresome and repetitive plot device that detracts from the enjoyment of the mystery.
Finally, as other reviewers have mentioned, the ending suggests that the bride acted in defense of another, but still, the unresolved fate of the groom must have caused significant trauma for the groom's family. The resolution dreamed up by the writers is astonishingly neglectful of that aspect of the old murder.
A not very satisfying episode, I'm afraid, of Garage Sale Mysteries.
The writers continue to have the secondary characters behaving in ways that make no logical sense. This is particularly the case with Jennifer (Lori Loughlin) and the lead Detective, Detective Frank Lynwood (Kevin O'Grady).
A groom disappeared from his wedding back in 1979. Jennifer, in an estate sale has found the bride's wedding dress. Because it is an expensive original dress, Jennifer attempts to track down who the bride is. Being successful she learns about the mysterious disappearance, and then finds a handkerchief with dried blood on it, inside a pocket of the dress.
Asking Detective Lynwood to look into the cold case of the groom's disappearance, he reveals, at lunch, that the case was never solved. Jennifer reveals the handkerchief with blood that she found inside the wedding dress, and the detective shrugs, saying that the DA office has a saying, "no body, no crime", even though he admits that there was no mention of the bloody handkerchief in the police report at the time. The writers are making Detective Frank Lynwood either remarkably stupid or just lazy.
In either case, it is a boring portrayal, that harkens back to some of the worst aspects of 1970s and 80s private eye shows--where police are shown to be obstructionist at best, and inept, and corrupt at worst.
Jennifer's husband, Jason (Steve Bacic) is still visibly disapproving of Jennifer's detecting instincts--to the point that Jennifer keeps what she is doing from her husband, rather than have to deal with his scolding. Another tiresome and repetitive plot device that detracts from the enjoyment of the mystery.
Finally, as other reviewers have mentioned, the ending suggests that the bride acted in defense of another, but still, the unresolved fate of the groom must have caused significant trauma for the groom's family. The resolution dreamed up by the writers is astonishingly neglectful of that aspect of the old murder.
A not very satisfying episode, I'm afraid, of Garage Sale Mysteries.