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TNT’s The Closer Is Back!

This is just a quick note to remind you all that TNT’s The Closer returned to television on Monday night. As most of you know, it is The Closer’s last season. (I wrote about The Closer before, and it continues to be one of my favorite television shows.)

The Closer has followed Deputy Police Chief Brenda Leigh Johnson (Kyra Sedgwick) as she “closed” more cases for the L.A.P.D. than probably any other reigning police chief. Of course, she did this by using techniques that were more commonly practiced back in the 1950s and 1960s, than are allowed these days.

“Say it ain’t so!”>>> but it is! This is the final season for The Closer, but there is some good news at the end of this rainbow: In August, there will be a new show on the horizon: Major Crimes. Heading to the Major Crimes line-up will be Mary McDonnell (Capt. Sharon Raydor). And, even better news, some of The Closer’s other cast members will be following McDonnell to the Major Crimes unit.

I have a few characters who I definitely want to continue seeing… unfortunately, they include ALL of the major players from The Closer:

Lt. Provenza (G. W. Bailey)
Lt. Andy Flynn (Tony Denison)
Detective Sgt. David Gabriel (Corey Reynolds)
Detective Julio Sanchez (Raymond Cruz)
Lt. Mike Tao (Michael Paul Chan)
Technician Buzz Watson (Phillip P. Keene)
Asst. Police Chief Will Pope (J. K. Simmons)
FBI agent Fritz Howard (Jon Tenney)
Commander Taylor (Robert Gossett)

In case you missed Monday night’s debut of The Closer‘s final season, the episode is called “Hostile Witness“, and it will re-air this Saturday morning (July 14, 2012) at 10:00 AM (central) and again on this coming Monday night (July 16, 2012) at 7:00 PM (central) on TNT.

I am truly sorry to see this show leave TNT’s line-up, and hope that Major Crimes will continue to have the same great writers associated with it, and of course, the same wonderful actors we have all grown to love.

August 2012 Mystery Book New Releases

The following Mystery Books will be released in August 2012:

Sarah Andrews: Rock Bottom (This will be the 11th in the Em Hansen Mystery Series.)

Connie Archer: A Spoonful of Murder (This will be the 1st in the NEW Soup Lover’s Mystery Series.)

Jessica Beck: Powdered Peril (This will be the 8th in the Donut Shop Mystery Series.)

Heather Blake (aka Heather Webber) A Witch before Dying (This will be the 2nd in the Witchcraft Mystery Series)

Rita Mae Brown: Sneaky Pie for President (This will be the 21st in the Mrs. Murphy Mystery Series.)

Nancy Bush: Nowhere To Run (This will be a Stand Alone.)

Kate Carlisle: Peril in Paperback (This will be the 6th in the Bibliophile Mystery Series.)

Judy Clemens: Dying Echo (This will be the 4th in the Grim Reaper Mystery Series.)

Barbara Cleverly: Not My Blood (This will be the 10th in the Joe Sandilands Mystery Series.)

Peg Cochran (aka Meg London): Allergic to Death (This will be the 1st in the NEW Gourmet De-Lite Msytery Series.)

Sheila Connolly (aka Sarah Atwell): Sour Apples (This will be the 6th in the Orchard Mystery Series.)

Cleo Coyle (aka Alice Kimberly): A Brew to a Kill (This will be the 11th in the Coffeehouse Mystery Series.)

Bill Crider: Murder of a Beauty Shop Queen (This will be the 19th in the Dan Rhodes Mystery Series.)

Carol Culver (aka Grace Carroll): Never Say Pie (This will be the 2nd in the Pie Shop Mystery Series.)

Carole Nelson Douglas: Cat in a White Tie and Tails (This will be the 24th in the Midnight Louie Mystery Series.)

Kaitlyn Dunnett (aka Kathy Lynn Emerson): Bagpipes, Brides, and Homicides (This will be the 6th in the Liss MacCrimmon Mystery Series.) (Actually, July 31)

Anthea Fraser: A Question of Identity (This will be the 8th in the Rona Parish Mystery Series.)

Jeanne Glidewell: Haunted (This will be the 3rd in the Lexie Starr Mystery Series.) (This will be a Halloween theme mystery.)

William Kent Krueger: Trickster’s Point (This will be the 12th in the Cork O’Connor Mystery Series.)

Laura Levine: Death of A Neighborhood Witch (This will be the 11th in the Jaine Austen Mystery Series.) (This will be a Halloween theme mystery.)

Laura Lippman: And When She Was Good (This will be a Stand Alone.)

Virginia Lowell: When the Cookie Crumbles (This will be the 3rd in the Cookie Cutter Shop Mystery Series.)

Nancy Martin: No Way to Kill a Lady (This will be the 8th in the Blackbird Sisters Mystery Series.)

Louise Penny: The Beautiful Mystery (This will be the 8th in the Chief Inspector Gamache Mystery Series.)

Kathy Reichs: Bones Are Forever (This will be the 15th in the Temperance Brennan Mystery Series.)

Ruth Rendell (aka Barbara Vine): The St. Zita Society (This will be a Stand Alone.)

Maggie Sefton: Deadly Politics (This will be the 1st in the NEW Molly Malone Mystery Series.)

Joanna Campbell Slan: Death of a Schoolgirl (This will be the 1st in the NEW Jane Eyre Chronicles Mystery Series.)

Melinda Wells (aka Linda Palmer): Seven-Layer Death (This will be the 5th in the Della Cooks Mystery Series.)

To go back to the Cozy Mystery New Book Release page, click here.

PBS Masterpiece Mystery – Inspector Lewis Series V, Starts This Weekend

It’s time, once again, to set up your favorite mode of taping. Either that, or be sure to be sitting in front of your television set, with your popcorn already popped, tomorrow night.

Your local PBS stations should be starting Series V of the Inspector Lewis episodes on Sunday, July 8, 2012. Inspector Lewis (Kevin Whately) and his trusty sidekick Detective Sergeant Hathaway (Laurence Fox) will be back solving crimes for four consecutive Sunday nights.

Inspector Lewis, Series V:

The Soul of Genius – July 8, 2012
Generation of Vipers – July 15, 2012
Fearful Symmetry – July 22, 2012
The Indelible Stain – July 29, 2012

And, for those of you who may have missed a few of the Inspector Lewis shows from Series IV, they will be re-airing two of the shows:

The Mind Has Mountains – Aug. 26, 2012
The Gift of Promise – Sept. 2, 2012

So, go get your taping machines ready!

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