Mystery 101: Killer Timing

Posted March 21, 2021 by karenbaron in Hallmark T.V. Movie, Movie Review, Mystery / 2 Comments

Mystery 101: Killer Timing

Network: Hallmark Movies & Mysteries

Series Number: 6

Director: Fred Gerber

Written by: John Christian Plummer

Production Credit: Lighthouse Pictures

Cast:

Jill Wagner (Professor Amy Winslow)
Kristoffer Polaha (Detective Travis Burke)
Robin Thomas (Graham Winslow)
Preston Vanderslice (Bud)
Erin Cahill (Kate Coulson)
Miranda Edwards (Maria Valdez)
Shiraine Haas (Rita Goff)
Daniel Bacon (Mel Goff)
Blake Stadel (Joe Gearon)
Adrian Petriw (Jeffrey Lewandowski)
Losesen Chambers (Tabitha Felton)
Fred Keating (Bill Breyer)
Michelle Choi-Lee (April Welker)
Julie Howgate (Eva Bianco)
Amira Anderson (EMT)
Bronwen Smith (President Rivers)
Cassandra Constance Bolinski (Nurse)
Chad Riley (Alberto)
Todd Mann (Darren Ellis)
Brad Mann (David Ellis)
Tanya Champoux (Diedre Breyer)
Martin Renner Wallace (Larry)

Plot Summary:

An escaped serial killer and an attempt on Travis’s life make this their most dangerous case, yet Amy and Travis team up with his FBI agent ex-wife to find the connection before it’s too late.

My Rating:

My Thoughts:

Travis and Amy are trying to date each other in this movie, but it isn’t really working all that well. These two are so cute together, and I can’t wait to see more of them as a couple in future movies.

Kristoffer Polaha is great as Detective Travis Burke, and I love how he has grown from the first movie to this latest installment. I also love how concerned he about Amy in all of these movies.

Jill Wagner is perfect as Professor Amy Winslow, and I like how different having a literature professor who specializes in crime fiction is from a regular police consultant. She and Kristoffer are cute together, and I loved their chemistry from the first movie and how it has grown since then. Well, for their characters, and you can tell that off-screen, these two are friends.

It’s sad to say that we might not see Sarah Dugdale as Detective Claire Tate in any more Mystery 101 movies as her character is living in Hawaii now and accepted a job offer there. I will miss her scenes with Preston Vanderslice as Bud. Speaking of Bud, he wasn’t in the movie a whole lot, but in the scenes he was in, they were funny. Since Claire is gone, Maria Valdez steps in to be Travis’s partner on the police force.

We got a new character in this one. Erin Cahill plays Special Agent Kate Coulson. Now I can’t say much about her, but she is a great character, and you should watch the movie to see her with Travis Burke. Awesome scenes. I also hope that they do something with her character. Like a spin-off with her own series in Chicago? Hallmark, if you are reading this…HINT!

My stepdad loves this series and couldn’t wait to see it when we all saw the preview for it in January. He kept asking if the teacher mystery was on yet. He totally enjoyed the film. I highly recommend this mystery series. Great job to all involved.