This movie is set in Martha's Vinyard but filmed in Canada and using mostly Canadian actors. It is a Hallmark movie but not the typical "guy and gal meet and fall in love."
So this is a sleepy community, there had been one murder in the past 12 years when a body is discovered in the water at the boat docks. They suspected a murder here because of the gash on the victim's head and a shard of glass embedded.
Fortunately for the community a former Boston police officer, who "retired" young after being shot on duty, is living there and working as a person who does odd boat jobs and repairs. He ends up helping the local sheriff and his daughter, who happens to be te local doctor also fuctioning as the coroner. There are a few false leads thrown in to keep us guessing and the reveal is pretty much a surprise.
I asked my wife, who reads lots of mystery novels, how the story here compares to all the others she has read. She said "sort of average." And I'll go with that.
The story is suitably interesting and the acting is fine, but in the penultimate scene the detective goes into a detailed explanation of how everything they discovered fits together and why the person was murdered. That much "talking" about the story is a feature of "B" movies where they are unable to allow the viewer to make all the connections so a character at the end explains it all.
My wife and I were entertained, streaming on Amazon.
So this is a sleepy community, there had been one murder in the past 12 years when a body is discovered in the water at the boat docks. They suspected a murder here because of the gash on the victim's head and a shard of glass embedded.
Fortunately for the community a former Boston police officer, who "retired" young after being shot on duty, is living there and working as a person who does odd boat jobs and repairs. He ends up helping the local sheriff and his daughter, who happens to be te local doctor also fuctioning as the coroner. There are a few false leads thrown in to keep us guessing and the reveal is pretty much a surprise.
I asked my wife, who reads lots of mystery novels, how the story here compares to all the others she has read. She said "sort of average." And I'll go with that.
The story is suitably interesting and the acting is fine, but in the penultimate scene the detective goes into a detailed explanation of how everything they discovered fits together and why the person was murdered. That much "talking" about the story is a feature of "B" movies where they are unable to allow the viewer to make all the connections so a character at the end explains it all.
My wife and I were entertained, streaming on Amazon.