User Reviews

I like the cast. Its similar style to the other hallmark mysteries, but i would say better than most story wise.

Angie Dove (Danica McKellar) has been invited to moderate a panel at a romance convention being held in town. No, she hasn't started writing books of any kind, but she is so well known locally for her matchmaking TV show, she is a natural fit. This does put her back into contact with Ethan, her ex-boyfriend who has taken over a publishing company from his late mother. Among his authors are Beatrice Penn (Anne Marie DeLuise), a best-selling author with a huge fan base.

She later dies from poisoning and there's a few suspects, one of them being Angie's ex-flame ...

Motives and suspects are well-woven with the puzzle fitting place at the finale, not after much investigating from Angie. The actress who plays her is quite lively and charming, her chemistry with the detective isn't too strong. Plus he looks a little too lethargic, or maybe he's meant to be that way. This is otherwise a fairly lively mystery with a dollop of a light touch.

It was entertaining enough and of course the suspect with no obvious motive is the killer. I like the actors but not here. Zero chemistry maybe because it is only the second movie and they are supposed to be building up. The Mystery 101 series is much better written, suspenseful and portrayed. And Hallmark props... shame on you for the huge fake flower bushes from Michaels in the final scene.

Matchmaker Angie Dove (Danica McKellar) is on a panel at a romance convention. A romance writer on the panel is apparently poisoned. Angie starts investigating the murder with or without help from police detective Kyle Cooper (Victor Webster).

This is the second Matchmaker Mysteries on the Hallmark Channel. Danica McKellar is adorable and a great lead for this type of light murder mystery series. I would want someone for her partner in crime solving. Quite frankly, they should use more Bruce Boxleitner. He may be past his prime but he still has his leading man looks. He's better than the detective and it would make sense for her father to be protective. It's fine for her to investigate alone but it could be better father-daughter fun. Like she says, she needs a Watson and Boxleitner is right there. Hallmark needs to get off the romance formula and look at what they have with clearer eyes.

6/10 - okay mystery set at a book festival's best moment is its tap back to Knives Out

I love the two of main characters in this mystery. Delightful and cute!!

This one is eons better than the first one on numerous levels. Ms. Mckeller toned it way back which helped and the plot was more believable than the first mystery; however, I'm still not getting any chemistry between Ms. Mckeller and Mr. Webster, in fact there was more chemistry between Angie and her old flame Ethan than her and the detective. Overall Mr. Webster seems to be completely uninterested in the whole thing and it's coming through in his acting. He kind of comes off annoyed to be there. I'm glad I gave it another shot but probably won't be continuing with this series. In layman's terms, it's boring.

The second Matchmaker Mystery is much better than the first. However, the publishing guy has got to go. Mommy this and Mommy that. Sickening.

I'm not going to give any spoilers so please watch for your own opinion. I found it uninteresting and not suspenseful at all. I couldn't wait until it was over and such an uneventful, disappointing wrap up to the mystery. It felt like it had nowhere to go so they just hurried and ended it and tried to add some suspense. No real mystery, it felt like the plot was shallow and full of holes. I'm sorry to say the lead actors just don't make their characters that interesting to watch. I love Danica but not in this mystery series, she just seems like she's trying too hard at times and is unnatural. The male lead doesn't seem to interact with her much in this one and allows Danica's character to do all the detective work. End result... not very entertaining. The first one was actually better even with no chemistry between lead actors.

Danica and Victor are awesome.

The set designer or whomever, for Hallmark, seems to make a HOBBY LOBBY run for flowers before the filming.

The fake flowers are so fake.

They are just randomly placed.

It seems they are just placed in the ground, anywhere, all colors mixed together. Not realistic at all .

Hallmark can do better than this. And this is in many of their movies.

The ultimate, ultimate disrespect from Hallmark to their viewers: on the lower right-hand side of the tv screen they have Hallmark movies and Mysteries logo and on the lower left taking up 1/9 of the screen, a man's picture saying "all new Martha's Vineyard mystery Premieres Sunday" 2 huge logos on the screen non stop. It is soooo aggrivating, annoying, and maddening!! Outrageous treatment of its viewers. Cannot stand it. People want to get lost in the movie instead of sitting there reminding us incessantly, this is a movie with these logos on the screen..... total disrespect of us.

Our matchmaker gets asked to attend a romance convention, where an author ends up being poisoned to death. This brings Detective Kyle Carter and Miss Dove back together again. Miss Dove (Angie) also runs in to her ex-boyfriend who has come back to take over the family's publishing company post his father's passing.

The sister, her estranged husband, and a heckling fan all become suspects in the author's murder. When her ex is brought in for questioning, Angie calls her father, former detective played by Bruce Boxleitner, and tries to get information out of Detective Kyle. Angie proceeds to start looking in to the killer, if only to help her former ex...this starts with looking for the mysterious enraged fan. "Angie, I don't think you should be meddling in an active police investigation."

"Expectations can be like a blindfold. We can get so caught up in what we think we should have in a partner, that we close ourselves off to opportunities."

"My mother always said she had a way with words, too bad you couldn't repeat most of them."

"Romance can happen at any time."

I like both of our main actors...but I am waiting to warm to their chemistry.

Danika should stick to Christmas and Romance she is absolutely horrible in these both of the 1st 2 Editions, Took a chance and watched the 2nd after struggling to get through the 1st. Hallmark Mysteries are so much better, Will never one of the Matchmaker Mysteries!!

This mystery series is the worst HMMM series ever created. Mckellar should stick with romcom. She is not cut out to be a wanna be detective. Her facial expressions was so annoying cause her looks like she'll gonna cry at all times. Victor is just wasting his talent and time. Had to stop watching after 45 minutes of dull and horrible movie. This movie doesn't even deserve a 1!

DNF, but FF'd to the end. I couldn't stand it shortly after they arrested Angie's friend on totally circumstantial evidence no DA would take to court, but that was only part of the reason. I like Danica McKellar as a mostly humble lead in romance movies. In this movie she is not good. Her character annoyed me immediately.