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Oh my goodness! 2015 is almost here! I have gone through the Turner Classic Movies channel and the Hallmark Movies & Mysteries channel and here are the television mystery movies that I have found that will be airing during January 2015.

Also, if you know of any other mystery movie that will be airing during the month (January), please post a comment. I’m pretty sure the rest of us Cozy Mystery readers would love to know about it. Thank you!

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January 2015 Turner Classic Movies Channel Mystery Movies (Central time zone):

Thursday, January 1

6:30 AM
Storm Center (1956)
A librarian fights to keep a controversial book on the shelves.
Dir: Daniel Taradash Cast: Bette Davis, Brian Keith, Kim Hunter.
BW-86 mins, Letterbox Format
*****This doesn’t look like a mystery, but it does look like an interesting book/library theme movie, and what a cast!*****

9:45 AM
Where Love Has Gone (1964)
Family secrets come to light when a teen-ager murders her mother’s lover.
Dir: Edward Dmytryk Cast: Susan Hayward, Bette Davis, Michael Connors.
C-114 mins

11:45 AM
Strait-Jacket (1964)
Murder follows an axe murderer home when she’s released from a mental hospital.
Dir: William Castle Cast: Joan Crawford, Diane Baker, Leif Erickson.
BW-93 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

1:30 PM
Dead Ringer (1964)
A woman murders her rich twin and tries to take her place.
Dir: Paul Henreid Cast: Bette Davis, Karl Malden, Peter Lawford.
BW-116 mins, CC

3:30 PM
Berserk (1967)
A lady ringmaster milks the publicity from a string of murders.
Dir: Jim O’Connolly Cast: Joan Crawford, Ty Hardin, Diana Dors.
C-96 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

5:15 PM
The Nanny (1965)
A disturbed young man tries to prove his nanny is out to kill him.Dir: Seth
Holt Cast: Bette Davis , Wendy Craig , Jill Bennett .
BW-93 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

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Saturday, January 3

1:00 AM
Bells Are Ringing (1960)
An answering service operator gets mixed up in her clients’ lives.
Dir: Vincente Minnelli Cast: Judy Holliday, Dean Martin, Fred Clark.
C-126 mins, CC, Letterbox Format
*****OK, you caught me! I’m a Judy Holliday fan, and this is not a mystery!*****

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Sunday, January 4

9:15 AM
Criss Cross (1949)
A man tries to save his fickle ex-wife from her criminal lover.
Dir: Robert Siodmak Cast: Burt Lancaster, Yvonne De Carlo, Dan Duryea.
BW-93 mins, CC

7:00 PM
Charade (1963)
A beautiful widow tries to find her husband’s lost fortune while eluding the killers who want it themselves.
Dir: Stanley Donen Cast: Cary Grant, Audrey Hepburn, Walter Matthau.
C-113 mins, Letterbox Format

9:00 PM
Arabesque (1966)
A university professor gets mixed up with international spies and a two-timing woman.
Dir: Stanley Donen Cast: Gregory Peck, Sophia Loren, Alan Badel.
C-105 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

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Monday, January 5

9:00 AM
Fingers at the Window (1942)
A magician uses hypnosis to create an army of murderers.
Dir: Charles Lederer Cast: Lew Ayres, Laraine Day, Basil Rathbone.
BW-81 mins, CC

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Tuesday, January 6

5:30 PM
The Unguarded Hour (1936)
A blackmailer tries to stop a woman from revealing evidence that could save a condemned man.
Dir: Sam Wood Cast: Loretta Young, Franchot Tone, Lewis Stone.
BW-87 mins, CC

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Wednesday, January 7

9:00 AM
The Saint in New York (1938)
The Saint goes undercover to get the goods on New York’s mob kingpins.
Dir: Ben Holmes Cast: Louis Hayward, Kay Sutton, Sig Rumann.
BW-72 mins, CC

7:00 PM
The Brothers Karamazov (1958)
In this adaptation of the Dostoevsky classic, four brothers fight to adjust to the death of their domineering father.
Dir: Richard Brooks Cast: Yul Brynner, Maria Schell, Claire Bloom.
C-146 mins, CC

9:45 PM
Crime and Punishment (1935)
A young student murders for money then tries to escape his guilt and a brilliant detective.
Dir: Josef von Sternberg Cast: Peter Lorre, Edward Arnold, Marian Marsh.
BW-88 mins, CC

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Friday, January 9

7:00 PM
Murder by Death (1976)
A criminal madman invites the world’s greatest detectives for a night of dinner and murder.
Dir: Robert Moore Cast: Peter Falk, Truman Capote, Alec Guinness.
BW-95 mins, CC, Letterbox Format
***** I think this is a fun Neil Simon mystery movie.*****

8:45 PM
The Cheap Detective (1978)
A private dick tackles two tough cases while trying to clear himself of a murder charge.
Dir: Robert Moore Cast: Peter Falk, Ann-Margret, Eileen Brennan.
C-92 mins, CC, Letterbox Format
***** Peter Falks stars in another fun Neil Simon mystery movie.*****

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Saturday, January 10

5:00 AM
For the Defense (1930)
An attorney, who specializes in springing criminals out of prison, is faced with a moral dilemma when his girlfriend drunkenly kills a pedestrian with her car and another man takes the blame.
Dir: John Cromwell Cast: William Powell, Kay Francis, Scott Kolk.
BW-63 mins, CC

9:45 PM
Ministry of Fear (1944)
When hidden microfilm comes into his possession, an innocent man is drawn into espionage.
Dir: Fritz Lang Cast: Ray Milland, Marjorie Reynolds, Carl Esmond.
BW-87 mins, CC

11:30 PM
The Blue Gardenia(1953)
A telephone operator kills in self-defense but can’t remember the details of the encounter.
Dir: Fritz Lang Cast: Anne Baxter, Richard Conte, Ann Sothern.
BW-88 mins, CC

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Sunday, January 11

11:00 AM
The Maltese Falcon (1941)
Hard-boiled detective Sam Spade gets caught up in the murderous search for a priceless statue.
Dir: John Huston Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Gladys George.
BW-100 mins, CC

1:00 PM
The Thomas Crown Affair (1968)
A bored tycoon turns to bank robbery and courts the insurance investigator assigned to bring him in.
Dir: Norman Jewison Cast: Steve McQueen, Faye Dunaway, Paul Burke.
C-102 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

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Tuesday, January 13

1:15 PM
It’s a Wonderful World (1939)
A runaway poetess helps a fugitive prove himself innocent of murder charges.
Dir: W. S. Van Dyke II Cast: Claudette Colbert, James Stewart, Guy Kibbee.
BW-86 mins, CC

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Thursday, January 15

5:00 AM
Foreign Agent (1942)
A Hollywood technician fights off enemy agents after his new searchlight design.
Dir: William Beaudine Cast: John Shelton, Gale Storm, Ivan Lebedeff.
BW-62 mins

6:15 AM
The Living Ghost (1942)
A former detective investigates a wealthy kidnap victim who returns with brain damage.
Dir: William Beaudine Cast: James Dunn, Joan Woodbury, Paul McVey.
BW-61 mins

10:15 AM
Leave It to the Irish (1944)
A private eye investigating one murder is framed for another.
Dir: William Beaudine Cast: James Dunn, Wanda McKay, Jack La Rue.
BW-62 mins

11:30 AM
Shadow of Suspicion (1944)
Private investigators infiltrate a jewelry store to guard a priceless emerald bracelet.
Dir: William Beaudine Cast: Marjorie Weaver, Peter Cookson, Tim Ryan.
BW-68 mins

2:00 PM
Fashion Model (1945)
When two employees of a clothing factory are murdered, the shadow of suspicion falls upon a lowly stock boy.
Dir: William Beaudine Cast: Robert Lowery, Marjorie Weaver, Tim Ryan.
BW-61 mins

3:15 PM
Below the Deadline (1946)
A veteran joins the mob to avenge his gangster brother’s murder.
Dir: William Beaudine Cast: Warren Douglas, Ramsay Ames, Jan Wiley.
BW-65 mins

9:00 PM
Whispering Smith (1948)
A railroad detective tries to bring in a gang of train robbers and a lost love.
Dir: Leslie Fenton Cast: Alan Ladd, Robert Preston, Donald Crisp.
C-89 mins

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Friday, January 16

5:30 AM
Hellcats of the Navy (1957)
A submarine commander inadvertently causes the death of a romantic rival under his command.
Dir: Nathan Juran Cast: Ronald Reagan, Nancy Davis, Arthur Franz.
BW-81 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

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Saturday, January 17

7:00 PM
Foreign Correspondent (1940)
An American reporter covering the war in Europe gets mixed up in the assassination of a Dutch diplomat.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Joel McCrea, Laraine Day, Herbert Marshall.
BW-120 mins, CC

11:00 PM
Above Suspicion (1943)
A honeymooning couple are asked to spy on the Nazis in pre-war Europe.
Dir: Richard Thorpe Cast: Joan Crawford, Fred MacMurray, Conrad Veidt.
BW-91 mins, CC

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Thursday, January 22

9:00 PM
The Catered Affair (1956)
A working-class mother fights to give her daughter a big wedding whether the girl wants it or not.
Dir: Richard Brooks Cast: Bette Davis, Ernest Borgnine, Debbie Reynolds.
BW-94 mins, CC, Letterbox Format
***** Not a mystery, but this movie packs a punch!*****

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Friday, January 23

12:30 AM
The Unsinkable Molly Brown (1964)
Musical biography of the backwoods girl who struck it rich in Colorado and survived the Titanic.
Dir: Charles Walters Cast: Debbie Reynolds, Harve Presnell, Ed Begley.
C-129 mins, CC, Letterbox Format
***** Not a mystery. Debbie Reynolds at her very best! *****

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Sunday, January 25

1:00 PM
The Harvey Girls (1946)
Straitlaced waitresses battle saloon girls to win the West for domesticity.
Dir: George Sidney Cast: Judy Garland, John Hodiak, Ray Bolger.
C-101 mins, CC
***** Not a mystery, but I believe you see a young Angela Lansbury sing.*****

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Tuesday, January 27

9:45 AM
Eyes in the Night (1942)
Blind detective Duncan Maclain gets mixed up with enemy agents and murder when he tries to help an old friend with a rebellious stepdaughter.
Dir: Fred Zinnemann Cast: Edward Arnold, Ann Harding, Donna Reed.
BW-80 mins, CC

5:30 PM
Condemned Women (1938)
Murder creates an uproar in a women’s prison.
Dir: Lew Landers Cast: Sally Eilers, Louis Hayward, Anne Shirley.
BW-77 mins

9:00 PM
All the President’s Men (1976)
Two Washington Post reporters investigate the Watergate break-in that ended Nixon’s presidency.
Dir: Alan J. Pakula Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Robert Redford, Jason Robards Jr..
C-138 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

11:30 PM
Three Days of the Condor (1975)
A CIA researcher uncovers top secret information and finds himself marked for death.
Dir: Sydney Pollack Cast: Robert Redford, Faye Dunaway, Cliff Robertson.
C-117 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

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Wednesday, January 28

5:00 PM
The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)
A man remains young and handsome while his portrait shows the ravages of age and sin.
Dir: Albert Lewin Cast: George Sanders, Hurd Hatfield, Donna Reed.
BW-110 mins, CC
***** Another movie with a very young Angela Lansbury. *****

10:15 PM
10 Rillington Place (1970)
A serial killer frames a mentally challenged man.
Dir: Richard Fleischer Cast: Richard Attenborough, Judy Geeson, John Hurt.
C-111 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

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Thursday, January 29

2:00 AM
Seance on a Wet Afternoon (1964)
A medium kidnaps a child so she can help the police solve the crime.
Dir: Bryan Forbes Cast: Kim Stanley, Richard Attenborough, Mark Eden.
BW-116 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

6:00 AM
The Florentine Dagger (1935)
A playwright descended from the Borgias becomes a murder suspect.
Dir: Robert Florey Cast: Donald Woods, Margaret Lindsay, C. Aubrey Smith.
BW-69 mins

7:15 AM
The Mystery of Mr. X (1934)
A sophisticated jewel thief tries to prove himself innocent of a string of cop murders.
Dir: Edgar Selwyn Cast: Robert Montgomery, Elizabeth Allen, Lewis Stone.
BW-84 mins, CC

10:00 AM
London by Night (1937)
A blackmailer holds the key to several murders.
Dir: William Thiele Cast: George Murphy, Rita Johnson, Virginia Field.
BW-69 mins

11:15 AM
Haunted Honeymoon (1940)
British sleuth Sir Peter Wimsey’s wedding celebration is cut short by the discovery of a murdered man in his honeymoon cottage.
Dir: Arthur B. Woods Cast: Robert Montgomery, Constance Cummings, Leslie Banks.
BW-83 mins, CC
***** Sir Peter Wimsey! We have Dorothy L. Sayers to thank!*****

12:45 PM
Shadows on the Stairs (1941)
A series of mysterious murders haunts the inhabitants of a boarding house.
Dir: D. Ross Lederman Cast: Frieda Inescort, Paul Cavanagh, Heather Angel.
BW-64 mins

5:15 PM
The Secret Partner (1961)
A shipping tycoon with a record becomes a suspect when money goes missing from the company vault.
Dir: Basil Dearden Cast: Stewart Granger, Haya Harareet, Bernard Lee.
BW-91 mins, Letterbox Format

11:15 PM
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (1956)
A novelist frames himself for murder to prove the fallibility of circumstantial evidence.
Dir: Fritz Lang Cast: Dana Andrews, Joan Fontaine, Sidney Blackmer.|
BW-80 mins, CC, Letterbox Format

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Saturday, January 31

1:15 PM
The Lavender Hill Mob (1951)
An overlooked gold transporter with twenty years service plots to steal a million pounds of gold.
Dir: Charles Crichton Cast: Alec Guinness, Stanley Holloway, Sidney James.
BW-81 mins, CC

2:45 PM
The Lion In Winter (1968)
England’s Henry II and his estranged queen battle over the choice of an heir.
Dir: Anthony Harvey Cast: Peter O’Toole, Katharine Hepburn, Jane Merrow.
C-134 mins, CC, Letterbox Format
***** Not a mystery. A wonderful movie. *****

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(All of the above TCM descriptions were copied from the TCM site.)

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January 2015 PBS Masterpiece Mystery! Shows Grantchester (Central time zone):

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Sunday – January 18, 2015

8:00 PM
Grantchester – Part 1
Based on James Runcie’s mystery novels. “Set in the English countryside’s most idyllic village, Grantchester follows two unlikely allies as they solve a series of cases that reveal the dark side of early 1950s England.” (from the PBS site)

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Sunday – January 25, 2015

8:00 PM
Grantchester – Part 2

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Sunday – February 1, 2015

8:00 PM
Grantchester – Part 3

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Sunday – February 8, 2015

8:00 PM
Grantchester – Part 4

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Sunday – February 15, 2015

8:00 PM
Grantchester – Part 5

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Sunday – February 22, 2015

8:00 PM
Grantchester – Part 6

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January 2015 Hallmark Movies & Mystery Channel Mystery Movies (Central time zone):

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Thursday – January 1, 2015

4:00 AM – 11:59 PM Hart to Hart marathon
*****I’m putting 11:59 only because I don’t want to have to annotate the next day’s date on the description.

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Friday – January 2, 2015

12:00 AM – 4:00 AM Hart to Hart marathon

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Saturday – January 3, 2015

6:00 AM – 11: 59 PM Murder, She Wrote marathon

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Sunday – January 4, 2015

8:00 AM – 11:59 Hart to Hart marathon

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Monday – January 5, 2015

12:00 AM – 1:59 AM Hart to Hart marathon continues

8:00 AM Mystery Woman: Wild West Mystery

10:00 AM Mystery Woman: Sing Me A Murder

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Sunday – January 11, 2015

8:00 AM
Along Came a Nanny
Detective Mike Logan takes on a special undercover assignment as a nanny when a quiet, upscale neighborhood is turned upside down by a string of robberies. When the mystery begins to unravel, new relationships are threatened as he struggles to protect his secret identity and solve a difficult case. Stars Sarah Lancaster and Cameron Mathison.

10:00 AM
Garage Sale Mystery: All That Glitters
Jennifer Shannon has an eye for antiques and a mind for solving mysteries. When she buys a storage unit at auction, she has no idea she’s opening the door to murder, and realizes the killer is after something in the storage unit. Stolen diamonds, antique Teddy Bears and handsome strangers are the clues to solving the crime. Stars Lori Loughlin, Sarah Strange, and Steve Bacic.

12:00 PM
Garage Sale Mystery
Jennifer loves scouring garage sales to look for items to sell in her resell shop, but when she realizes a series of burglaries and a friend’s murder may have a connection to the sales, she not only helps the cops, but does some undercover sleuthing of her own. Stars Lori Loughlin and Andrew Dunbar.

2:00 PM
Wedding Planner Mystery
A young wedding planner is framed for a crime and struggles to clear her name as she learns that love does not always arrive in a pretty package. Stars Erica Durance, Andrew Walker and Brandon Beemer.

4:00 PM
My Gal Sunday
A newlywed couple must prove their crime-solving prowess when their politically-tied parents are taken hostage by a vengeful kidnapper looking for justice for the wrongful murder conviction of his brother. Based on the book by Mary Higgins Clark. Stars Jack Wagner, Cameron Mathison and Rachel Blanchard.

6:00 PM
Along Came a Nanny
Detective Mike Logan takes on a special undercover assignment as a nanny when a quiet, upscale neighborhood is turned upside down by a string of robberies. When the mystery begins to unravel, new relationships are threatened as he struggles to protect his secret identity and solve a difficult case. Stars Sarah Lancaster and Cameron Mathison.

8:00 PM
Garage Sale Mystery: All That Glitters
Jennifer Shannon has an eye for antiques and a mind for solving mysteries. When she buys a storage unit at auction, she has no idea she’s opening the door to murder, and realizes the killer is after something in the storage unit. Stolen diamonds, antique Teddy Bears and handsome strangers are the clues to solving the crime. Stars Lori Loughlin, Sarah Strange, and Steve Bacic.

10:00 PM
Garage Sale Mystery
Jennifer loves scouring garage sales to look for items to sell in her resell shop, but when she realizes a series of burglaries and a friend’s murder may have a connection to the sales, she not only helps the cops, but does some undercover sleuthing of her own. Stars Lori Loughlin and Andrew Dunbar.

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Monday – January 12, 2015

10:00 AM
Wedding Planner Mystery
A young wedding planner is framed for a crime and struggles to clear her name as she learns that love does not always arrive in a pretty package. Stars Erica Durance, Andrew Walker and Brandon Beemer.

4:00 PM
After All These Years
When a woman is wrongly accused of the death of her ex-husband, she sets out to solve the murder mystery and find the real killer before the day of the funeral, when she is to be taken into custody. Based on the book by best-selling author Susan Isaacs. Stars Wendie Malick Gregory Harrison.

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Tuesday – January 13, 2015

8:00 PM
Undercover Bridesmaid
Tanya, a highly-trained security guard who lost her zest for romance after being left at the altar, takes an assignment where she poses as a bridesmaid for a woman who has been receiving death threats before her wedding day. While undercover, Tanya not only solves the mystery, but she is finally able to put the past behind her and give love a second chance. Stars Brooke Burns, Nicole Paggi, and Gregory Harrison.

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Wednesday – January 14, 2015

8:00 AM
Undercover Bridesmaid
Tanya, a highly-trained security guard who lost her zest for romance after being left at the altar, takes an assignment where she poses as a bridesmaid for a woman who has been receiving death threats before her wedding day. While undercover, Tanya not only solves the mystery, but she is finally able to put the past behind her and give love a second chance. Stars Brooke Burns, Nicole Paggi, and Gregory Harrison.

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Thursday – January 15, 2015

8:00 AM
Beverly Lewis’ The Shunning
Katie Lapp is known in her Amish community for not always adhering to the strict rules of the religious township. When she discovers her parents have long kept secret the fact she was adopted and that her birth mother is trying to contact her, she brings great shame to her father by refusing to marry the town’s bishop. Shunned by her community and family, Katie struggles between the only home she has known and the outside world. Stars Danielle Panabaker and Sherry Stringfield.
***** Not a mystery, but I know that Amish books/movies are quite popular, so I thought I would tell you about this (what appears to be) two-part movie duo. The next movie looks like it’s a continuation of this movie.*****

10:00 AM
Beverly Lewis’ The Confession
After leaving her Amish town and the only family she has ever known, Katie Lapp ventures to New York City to find her birth mother, Laura Mayfield-Bennett. Katie finds Laura but is shocked to discover an imposter claiming to be Katie Lapp is already living in Laura’s home. As Katie tries to unravel the mystery, Daniel Fisher, the young man who captured Katie’s heart years ago, has returned to find Katie—the one woman he ever truly loved. Stars Sherry Stringfield, Katie Leclerc, Adrian Paul and Cameron Stewart.
***** Not a mystery, but this looks like the follow-up movie to the earlier Amish theme movie.*****

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Saturday – January 17, 2015

10:00 AM
Thicker Than Water
After the death of her father, Natalie discovers he was married to a woman prior to her mother. Upset that her father kept part of his life a secret, she sets out to find the woman her father once loved. Starring Melissa Gilbert, Lindsay Wagner, Brian Wimmer and Lindy Newton.

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Sunday – January 18, 2015

8:00 AM – 11:50 PM
Diagnosis Murder marathon

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Sunday – January 26, 2015

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Monday – January 28, 2015

8:00 AM
Wedding Planner Mystery
A young wedding planner is framed for a crime and struggles to clear her name as she learns that love does not always arrive in a pretty package. Stars Erica Durance, Andrew Walker and Brandon Beemer.

10:00 AM
My Gal Sunday
A newlywed couple must prove their crime-solving prowess when their politically-tied parents are taken hostage by a vengeful kidnapper looking for justice for the wrongful murder conviction of his brother. Based on the book by Mary Higgins Clark. Stars Jack Wagner, Cameron Mathison and Rachel Blanchard.

4:00 PM
Lies Between Friends
When art restorer Joss Jenner joins her old college friends for a weekend reunion, old jealousies and deeply buried secrets lead to murder. Devastated by the loss, Joss is unable to rest until she figures out who is responsible for the crime. Stars Gabrielle Anwar and Craig Sheffer.

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(All of the above Hallmark Movies & Mysteries descriptions were copied from the Hallmark Movies & Mysteries site.)

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Here is the Upcoming Mystery Movies for December 2014 entry, in case you want to see what is playing the rest of this month.