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December 2013 Mystery Book New Releases

November 1, 2013

The following Mystery Books will be released in December 2013:

Victoria Abbot (writing duo Mary Jane Maffini & Victoria Maffini): The Sayers Swindle (This will be the 2nd in the Book Collector’s Mystery Series.)

Sandra Balzo: Murder on the Orient Espresso (This will be the 8th in the Maggy Thorsen Mystery Series.)

Maggie Barbieri: Once Upon a Lie (This will be the 1st in the NEW Maeve Conlon Mystery Series.)

C.C. Benison: Ten Lords A-Leaping (This will be the 3rd in the Father Christmas Mystery Series.)

Jennie Bentley (aka Jenna Bennett & Bente Gallagher): Home for the Homicide (This will be the 7th in the Do It Yourself Mystery Series.) (This is a Christmas theme mystery.)

Juliet Blackwell (aka Hailey Lind): Home for the Haunting (This will be the 4th in the Haunted Home Renovation Mystery Series.)

Laurie Cass: Lending a Paw (This will be the 1st in the NEW Bookmobile Cat Mystery Series.)

Laura Childs: Tea for Three (This is an omnibus of the first three Tea Shop Mysteries: Death by Darjeeling, Gunpowder Green, & Shades of Earl Grey.)

Judy Clemens: Leave Tomorrow Behind (This will be the 6th in the Stella Crown Mystery Series.)

J.J. Cook (aka Joyce and Jim Lavene & Ellie Grant): Hero’s Journey (This will be a Novella in the Sweet Pepper Fire Brigade Mystery Series.)

Michael Connelly: The Gods of Guilt (This will be the 5th in the Mickey Haller Mystery Series.)

Cleo Coyle (aka Alice Kimberly): Billionaire Blend (This will be the 13th in the Coffeehouse Mystery Series.)

Elizabeth Craig (aka Riley Adams & Elizabeth Craig): Quilt Trip (This will be the 3rd in the Southern Quilting Mystery Series.)

Krista Davis: Murder, She Barked (This will be the 1st in the NEW Paws and Claws Mystery Series.)

Carola Dunn: Heirs of the Body (This will be the 21st in the Daisy Dalrymple Mystery Series.)

Christopher Fowler: The Invisible Code (This will be the 10th in the Bryant & May Mystery Series.)

Frances Fyfield: Cold to the Touch (This will be the 6th in the Sarah Fortune Mystery Series.) (USA Release)

J.G. Goodhind: The Ghost of Christmas Past (This will be the 8th in the Honey Driver Mystery Series.) (This is a Christmas theme mystery.)

Carolyn Hart: Cry in the Night (This will be a Stand Alone Mystery.) (This book was released in e-book format only in ’12.)

Joan Hess: Murder as a Second Language (This will be the 19th in the Claire Malloy Mystery Series.)

Jonnie Jacobs: Lying with Strangers (This will be a Stand Alone Mystery.)

Sue Ann Jaffarian: Second-Hand Stiff (This will be the 8th in the Odelia Grey Mystery Series.) (This is a Thanksgiving theme mystery.)

Laura Levine: Killing Cupid (This will be the 12th in the Jaine Austen Mystery Series.) (This is a Valentine theme mystery.)

Liz Lipperman (aka Lizbeth Lipperman): Chicken Caccia-Killer (This will be the 4th in the Clueless Cook Mystery Series.)

Kylie Logan (aka Miranda Bliss & Casey Daniels): Buttoned Up (This will be the 4th in the Button Box Mystery Series.)

Marcia Muller & Bill Pronzini: The Spook Lights Affair (This will be the 4th in the Carpenter & Quincannon, Professional Detective Services Mystery Series.)

Gail Oust: Rosemary and Crime (This will be the 1st in the NEW Piper Prescott Mystery Series.)

Sharon Pape: Sketcher in the Rye (This will be the 4th in the Portrait of Crime Mystery Series.)

Anne Perry: A Christmas Hope (This will be the 11th in Perry’s Christmas mystery novels.)

Ann Purser: Scandal at Six (This will be the 13th in the Lois Meade Mystery Series.)

Paige Shelton: Merry Market Murder (This will be the 6th in the Farmers’ Market Mystery Series.) (This is a Christmas theme mystery.)

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Happy Halloween to ALL of You!

October 31, 2013

Can you believe it? It’s finally time for the little princesses and bunnies to Trick or Treat!

Happy Halloween to you all.

(Now that we don’t have Sprite to bark (incessantly) at the little Trick or Treaters, it should be a quiet night around here.)

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Hallmark Channel & Lifetime Channel New Holiday Movies for 2013

October 30, 2013

I went over to the Hallmark channel‘s site to see if I could find a list of all of their new 2013 holiday movies. Sure enough, I did! They will be showing their original holiday movies during an allotted time they are calling their “Hallmark Channel’s Countdown to Christmas“, which will be at 7:00 (Central time zone) every Saturday and Sunday night.

I then went over to the Lifetime channel to see what they have in store for us.  Lifetime is calling their holiday schedule “It’s a Wonderful Lifetime” and it airs at 7:00 PM (Central) on Saturday nights.

(Yikes! Both Hallmark and Lifetime are airing their original holiday movies at 7:00 PM Central? OK, not to worry… We’re just going to have to do some choosing and then re-arranging to find out which holiday movie will air again the quickest.)

Just to make it a little easier for all of us, I’m going to list the premier dates of  both Hallmark’s 2013 holiday movies and Lifetime’s 2013 holiday movies under the correct dates. (You’ll have to check to see when they will be re-airing the shows if you miss these showings. Or, if you’re lucky, let your DVR figure it out!)

Also, I’ll be adding my comments about some of the actors/actresses I recognize. This will definitely date me! (As Joe Friday might say: Just the dates, Ma’am.)

***** ***** ***** *****

SATURDAY – NOVEMBER 2, 2013

The Thanksgiving House (Hallmark channel)
Premieres Saturday, November 2 at 7:oo PM PM central

Both Bruce Boxleitner and (the bionic) Lindsay Wagner are in this.

***** ***** ***** *****

FRIDAY – NOVEMBER 8, 2013

Pete’s Christmas (Hallmark channel)
Premieres Friday, November 8 at 7:oo PM central

Where in the world did Bruce Dern go? Good to see him again.

***** ***** ***** *****

SATURDAY – NOVEMBER 9, 2013

Snow Bride (Hallmark channel)
Premieres Saturday, November 9 at 7:oo PM central

Oh, my goodness, Patricia Richardson!

A Country Christmas Story (Lifetime channel)
Premieres Saturday, November 9 at 7:oo PM central

I can’t wait to see Dolly Parton and Mary Kay Place in this!

***** ***** ***** *****

SUNDAY – NOVEMBER 10, 2013

A Very Merry Mix-Up  (Hallmark channel)
Premieres Sunday, November 10 at 7:oo PM central

I remember Alicia Witt from when she was Cybil’s daughter, more than a few years ago.

***** ***** ***** *****

SATURDAY- NOVEMBER 16, 2013

The Christmas Ornament (Hallmark channel)
Premieres Saturday, November 16 at 7:oo PM central

It’s good to see Kellie Martin back on the Hallmark channel, and Jewel Staite safely back from Firefly.

Twelve Trees of Christmas (Lifetime channel)
Premieres Saturday, November 16 at 7:oo PM central

**** ***** ***** *****

SUNDAY – NOVEMBER 17, 2013

Catch a Christmas Star (Hallmark channel)
Premieres Sunday, November 17 at 7:oo PM central

***** ***** ***** *****

SATURDAY – NOVEMBER 23, 2013

Window Wonderland (Hallmark channel)
Premieres Saturday, November 23 at 7:oo PM central

It will be nice to see Naomi Judd again.

Kristin’s Christmas Past (Lifetime channel)
Premieres Saturday, November 23 at 7:oo PM central

Oh my gosh, Judd Nelson…

***** ***** ***** *****

SUNDAY – NOVEMBER 24, 2013

Fir Crazy (Hallmark channel)
Premieres Sunday, November 24 at 7:oo PM central

***** ***** ***** *****

SATURDAY – NOVEMBER 30, 2013

Let it Snow (Hallmark channel)
Premieres Saturday, November 30 at 7:oo PM central

A reunion for Alan Thicke and Candace Cameron-Bure…

Dear Secret Santa (Lifetime channel)
Premieres Saturday, November 30 at 7:oo PM central

It’s always a treat to see Della Reese.

***** ***** ***** *****

SUNDAY – DECEMBER 1, 2013

The Christmas Spirit (Hallmark channel)
Premieres Sunday, December 1 at 7:oo PM central

I wonder if Nicolette Sheridan or Olympia Dukakis  is the “ruthless real estate  developer”…

***** ***** ***** *****

SATURDAY – DECEMBER 7, 2013

Santa Switch (Hallmark channel)
Premieres Saturday, December 7 at 7:oo PM central

I’m happy to see Sean Astin is back from Mount Doom.

Christmas in the City (Lifetime channel)
Premieres Saturday, December 7 at 7:oo PM central

Saving Grace’s Ashley Williams and Mathnet’s Beverly Leech will be a delight to see.

***** ***** ***** *****

SATURDAY – DECEMBER 14, 2013

Hats off to Christmas (Hallmark channel)
Premieres Saturday, December 14 at 7:oo PM central

Christmas on the Bayou (Lifetime channel)
Premieres Saturday, December 14 at 7:oo PM central

Ed Asner, Markie Post, and Randy Travis…

A Snow Globe Christmas (Lifetime channel)
Premieres Saturday, December 14 at 9:oo PM central

Yes, the Lifetime channel is bringing us a double-feature tonight. It’s good to see Donald Faison, again. (Alicia Witt has been busy at both networks!)

***** ***** ***** *****

SUNDAY – DECEMBER 15, 2013

Finding Christmas (Hallmark channel)
Premieres Sunday, December 15 at 7:oo PM central

Tricia Helfer is finally back home from Battlestar Galactica.

***** ***** ***** *****

I have some other Christmas movies that you might want to know about on these entries:

Christmas: Favorite Classic Holiday Movies : Old, Black & White… and a Few In Color!

Christmas: Favorite Holiday Movies – More Recent, In Color

Also, if you’re in the mood for some non-Christmas television viewing, you might enjoy browsing through my other ideas for great television viewing:

A Guide to Cozy Mystery TV

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Upcoming Television Mystery Movies for November 2013

October 30, 2013

I have found these mystery movies from TCM’s Now Playing for November 2013. (TCM stands for the Turner Classic Movie channel.) I have tried to limit the list to the mysteries I could find, but I just couldn’t keep myself from listing some of my favorite old comedies.

I’m listing the movies in Central time zone. If you know of any other mystery movies that are going to be aired on television during November 2013, please post a comment.

***** ***** ***** *****

Friday, November 1, 2013

(***While neither of today’s listed movies are mysteries, they are a lot of fun to watch.)

IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT (1934)  7:00 PM
A newspaperman tracks a runaway heiress on a madcap cross-country tour.
Dir: Frank Capra Cast: Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert, Walter Connolly.
BW-105 mins, TV-PG, CC

HIS GIRL FRIDAY (1940)  9:00 PM
An unscrupulous editor plots to keep his star reporter-and ex-wife-from re-marrying.
Dir: Howard Hawks Cast: Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell, Ralph Bellamy.
BW-92 mins, TV-G, CC

***** ***** ***** *****

Saturday, November 2, 2013

THE MAD MISS MANTON  (1938)  2:00 AM
A daffy socialite gets her friends mixed up in a murder investigation.
Dir: Leigh Jason Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, Sam Levene.
BW-80 mins, TV-G, CC

TAMING OF THE SHREW, THE (1967)  7:00 AM
A fortune hunter agrees to wed a temperamental woman so his friend can court her sister. (***It is a delight to watch Taylor and Burton in this Shakespearean movie.)
Dir: Franco Zeffirelli Cast: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Cyril Cusack.
C-122 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format

***** ***** ***** *****

Monday, November 4, 2013

OLD ACQUAINTANCE (1943)  7:15 AM
Two writers, friends since childhood, fight over their books and lives. (***Not a mystery, but Davis and Hopkins are great in this.)
Dir: Vincent Sherman Cast: Bette Davis, Miriam Hopkins, Gig Young.
BW-110 mins, TV-PG, CC

THE WOMAN IN WHITE (1948)  11:30 AM
Classic mystery about the adventures of a young tutor sent to a ghostly country estate.
Dir: Peter Godfrey Cast: Alexis Smith, Eleanor Parker, Sydney Greenstreet.
BW-109 mins, TV-G, CC

HUNT THE MAN DOWN (1950)  1:30 PM
Lawyer uncovers secret behind a decade-old murder case.
Dir: George Archainbaud Cast: Gig Young, Lynne Roberts, Mary Anderson.
BW-68 mins, TV-PG

***** ***** ***** *****

Wednesday, November 6, 2013

THE KILLERS (1946)  7:00 PM
An insurance investigator uncovers a string of crimes when he tries to find a murdered boxer’s beneficiary.
Dir: Robert Siodmak Cast: Burt Lancaster, Ava Gardner, Edmond O’Brien.
BW-102 mins, TV-14, CC

***** ***** ***** *****

Monday, November 11, 2013

CROSSFIRE (1947)  8:00 AM
A crusading district attorney investigates the murder of a Jewish man.
Dir: Edward Dmytryk Cast: Robert Young, Robert Mitchum, Robert Ryan.
BW-86 mins, TV-PG, CC

***** ***** ***** *****

Tuesday, November 12, 2013

FAST AND FURIOUS (1939)  4:30 PM
Married book-dealers Joel and Garda Sloane get mixed up with murder during a beauty pageant.
Dir: Busby Berkeley Cast: Franchot Tone, Ann Sothern, Ruth Hussey.
BW-73 mins, TV-G

***** ***** ***** *****

Wednesday, November 13, 2013

WOMAN OF THE YEAR (1942)  7:00 AM
Opposites distract when a sophisticated political columnist falls for a sportswriter. (***Not a mystery but Tracy and Hepburn are quite a duo.)
Dir: George Stevens Cast: Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Fay Bainter.
BW-114 mins, TV-PG, CC

NOTORIOUS (1946)  9:00 AM
A U.S. agent recruits a German expatriate to infiltrate a Nazi spy ring in Brazil.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains.
BW-101 mins, TV-PG, CC

***** ***** ***** *****

Thursday, November 14, 2013

MY NAME IS JULIA ROSS (1945)  7:00 PM
A young girl finds herself entrenched in a murder cover-up when she goes to work for a wealthy widow.
Dir: Joseph H. Lewis Cast: Nina Foch, Dame May Whitty, George Macready.
BW-65 mins, TV-PG, CC

***** ***** ***** *****

Friday, November 15, 2013

THE TALL TARGET (1951)  12:00 AM
A detective tries to prevent the assassination of President Lincoln during a train ride.
Dir: Anthony Mann Cast: Dick Powell, Paula Raymond, Adolphe Menjou.
BW-78 mins, TV-G, CC

DEAD RECKONING (1947)  9:45 AM
A tough veteran sets out to solve his war buddy’s murder.
Dir: John Cromwell Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Lizabeth Scott, Morris Carnovsky.
BW-100 mins, TV-PG, CC

***** ***** ***** *****

Saturday, November 16, 2013

IT’S A WONDERFUL WORLD (1939)  12:15 AM
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, TV-G, CC

DECEPTION (1946)  7:15 AM
A woman tries to protect her refugee husband from her rich and powerful ex-lover.
Dir: Irving Rapper Cast: Bette Davis, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains.
BW-112 mins, TV-PG, CC

***** ***** ***** *****

Sunday, November 17, 2013

THE BIG HEAT (1953)  9:15 AM
A police detective whose wife was killed by the mob teams with a scarred gangster’s moll to bring down a powerful gangster.
Dir: Fritz Lang Cast: Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame, Jocelyn Brando.
BW-90 mins, TV-14, CC

***** ***** ***** *****

Monday, November 18, 2013

COMET OVER BROADWAY (1938)  1:15 PM
A stage star’s rampant ambition leads to murder.
Dir: Busby Berkeley Cast: Kay Francis, Ian Hunter, John Litel.
BW-70 mins, TV-G, CC

***** ***** ***** *****

Tuesday, November 19, 2013

MAN IN THE ATTIC (1953)  3:30 PM
A landlady suspects her mysterious new tenant is Jack the Ripper.
Dir: Hugo Fregonese Cast: Jack Palance, Constance Smith, Byron Palmer.
BW-82 mins, TV-PG

THE MALTESE FALCON (1941)  7:00 PM
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, TV-PG, CC

***** ***** ***** *****

Wednesday, November 20, 2013

THE SELLOUT (1951) 10:15 AM
A small-town newspaper editor risks everything to expose a corrupt sheriff.
Dir: Gerald Mayer Cast: Walter Pidgeon, John Hodiak, Audrey Totter.
BW-83 mins, TV-PG, CC

MISTER 880 (1950)  7:00 PM
A beloved old man is secretly Mister 880, an amateurish counterfeiter.
Dir: Edmund Goulding Cast: Burt Lancaster, Dorothy McGuire, Edmund Gwenn.
BW-90 mins, CC

JUDGMENT AT NUREMBERG (1961)  8:45 PM
An aging American judge presides over the trial of Nazi war criminals. (*** This is not a mystery movie. Watch for a young William Shatner before his Star Trek days.)
Dir: Stanley Kramer Cast: Spencer Tracy, Burt Lancaster, Richard Widmark.
BW-179 mins, TV-14, CC, Letterbox Format

***** ***** ***** *****

Friday, November 22, 2013

STAR OF MIDNIGHT (1935)  1:30 PM
A New York lawyer tries to track down a kidnapped actress.
Dir: Stephen Roberts Cast: William Powell, Ginger Rogers, Paul Kelly.
BW-90 mins, TV-PG, CC,

BALL OF FIRE (1942)  11:00 PM
A group of professors takes in a nightclub singer hiding from the law to protect her gangster boyfriend. (*** I should probably warn you all that I am a Barbara Stanwyck fan. Even so, this comedy is really quite good.)
Dir: Howard Hawks Cast: Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Oscar Homolka.
BW-112 mins, TV-G, CC

***** ***** ***** *****

Saturday, November 23, 2013

MURDER, MY SWEET (1944)  5:00 PM
Detective Philip Marlowe’s search for a two-timing woman leads him to blackmail and murder.
Dir: Edward Dmytryk Cast: Dick Powell, Claire Trevor, Anne Shirley.
BW-95 mins, TV-PG, CC

***** ***** ***** *****

Tuesday, November 26, 2013

BULLITT (1968)  8:00 PM
When mobsters kill the witness he was assigned to protect, a dedicated policeman investigates the case on his own.
Dir: Peter Yates Cast: Steve McQueen, Robert Vaughn, Jacqueline Bisset.
C-114 mins, TV-14, CC, Letterbox Format

NAKED CITY (1948)  11:00 PM
A step-by-step look at a murder investigation on the streets of New York.
Dir: Jules Dassin Cast: Barry Fitzgerald , Howard Duff , Dorothy Hart .
BW-96 mins, TV-14, CC

***** ***** ***** *****

Wednesday, November 27, 2013

WHITE HEAT (1949)  1:00 AM
A government agent infiltrates a gang run by a mother-fixated psychotic.
Dir: Raoul Walsh Cast: James Cagney, Virginia Mayo, Edmond O’Brien.
BW-113 mins, TV-PG, CC

THE THOMAS CROWN AFFAIR (1968)  4:45 AM
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, TV-14, CC, Letterbox Format

***** ***** ***** *****

Thursday, November 28, 2013

THE YOUNG SAVAGES (1961)  6:15 AM
An assistant DA suspects one of the delinquents he’s prosecuting for murder is his son.
Dir: John Frankenheimer Cast: Burt Lancaster, Dina Merrill, Shelley Winters.
BW-103 mins, TV-14, CC, Letterbox Format

***** ***** ***** *****

Friday, November 29, 2013

THE LADY EVE (1941)  7:00 PM
A lady cardsharp tries to con an eccentric scientist only to fall for him. (*** One of the best Barbara Stanwyck comedies.)
Dir: Preston Sturges Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, Charles Coburn.
BW-94 mins, TV-PG, CC

***** ***** ***** *****

Saturday, November 30, 2013

THE WRONG MAN (1956)  9:15 PM
A musician is mistaken for a vicious thief, with devastating results.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Henry Fonda, Vera Miles, Anthony Quayle.
BW-105 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format

***** ***** ***** *****

If you know of any other mystery movies that are going to be airing this month, feel free to post a comment.

(All of the above descriptions were copied from the TCM site. I hope they don’t change their line-up!)

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