Fiori e delitti - Le rose nere

Abby Knight (Brooke Shields) has been sent money anonymously to deliver black roses to someone. The black roses are for a Bruce Barnes (Daniel Kash) who happens to be the pre-law professor for Abby's daughter Sydney (Celeste Desjardins). Abby is apparently terrified of him. En route, Abby runs into an old lawyer rival of hers ( Howell) who teaches at the college. They hate each other. After handing the roses to Barnes, who dumps the roses in the bin, she decides to return to the office to retrieve the roses and ends up seeing Howell sitting in Barnes' chair with a pencil in his throat ...

Brooke Shields is a natural in her role as the protagonist who likes snooping into a murder case. Here, it's personal as she's a suspect, mainly because she had disagreements with the victim. Helping her on the case is Brennan Elliott, with whom Shields has a good chemistry and a possible romantic Union, even though Shields denies there's a romance. The mystery is simple, but the appeal is in the humour and banter. It's a good lighthearted fun with no intention to be a "grim, realistic" crime saga. Shame they didn't make more than three episodes.