Concrete Evidence: A Fixer Upper Mystery

We enjoyed it. It wasn't the most compelling but it wasn't terrible and was above average. Anything with Colin in it is great and for some reason I didn't recognize Jewel.

The story was good, and I wasn't even close to solving it correctly.

We will watch this series again.

A mostly Canadian cast and Canadian locations are what makes Concrete Evidence happen. This Hallmark mystery movie involves Jewel Pilcher who has taken over a construction company from her dad Ron Lea. She's working on a job for Colin Ferguson a mystery writer who has bought a rundown old mansion. It's a fixer-upper to either flip or live in and since Ferguson has a thing for Pilcher it will be the latter.

But plans go awry when a skeleton is found in a dumbwaiter that was deliberately sabotaged to be stuck between floors. It's the body of a girl who was a contemporary of Pilcher's in school. When she wasn't found it was thought she went off to Hollywood to seek fame and fortune.

Now a missing persons case becomes a really cold case homicide. But a lot of the possible suspects are still in town. I will say this the killer is not one I suspected at all.

The Hallmark mysteries seem to have a nice cookie cutter pattern where red state American women become the heroes. Still they do offer some good entertainment as this one does.

Shannon, played by the singer Jewel, is a totally likeable woman whose career is contracting. But she keeps getting sidetracked by murders. In this one, the trail of clues wanders a bit. We get a bit more romance between Shannon and Mac as Jewel and Colin Ferguson connect.

This Fixer Upper Mystery isn't a second chance story, and yet it does let some of these characters revisit their high school days, and solve the mystery of what ever became of their friend the High School Drama star everyone always thought would make it big in Hollywood.

While starting the renovation on Mac's new/old home "The Craddick House", Shannon finds a skeleton of a body that was hidden in the dumb waiter.

It turns out it was a high school senior that Shannon and all her friends knew...including Shannon's foreman because the body is Lily, his sister who supposedly headed to Hollywood California after graduation to follow her dreams.

Mac and Shannon are both on the case...to solve this crime together. I love these two sharing their past stories and getting to know one another in the course of solving the crime.

Another good mystery, great acting and the story is getting better and better. It's not quite up to par with my three favorites: Murder she Baked, Mystery 101 and Aurora Teagarden...but it is still one of the better mystery series on Hallmark. I hope they do more!