He calls him “Rookie” and “Rook” because he’s charmingly condescending, I suppose. We also meet Logan’s new partner, detective Winston Sams. His girlfriend Abby found him, unfortunately. There’s no surveillance footage, no sign of the murder weapon, and no sign of forced entry. (The Chief is also Logan’s father, for those who didn’t see the first Crossword Mysteries film.) The idea is to spell out ABBY, WILL YOU MARRY ME?īack at the murder scene, the Chief arrives, avoiding wedding planning with a convenient murder. She clues ABBY “Free with her advice” (which is terrible cluing) and the word WILL “Shakespeare, to friends,” and “Words that have a nice ring to them” for MARRY ME. We cut back to her working on the puzzle and explaining the concept to the new intern. He’s going to propose to Abby, showing off a massive diamond ring, and he asks Tess to hide his marriage proposal to Abby in her upcoming puzzle. They do her puzzle together over brunch every Sunday. You see, Lyle and Abby were both solving Tess’s puzzle, and that’s how they met. Lyle talks about the big distraction in his life - his girlfriend Abby - and it turns out Tess’s crossword is not only solved by every human being on the planet, but it’s also a romantic talisman. (Tess namedrops Navajo codetalkers and World War II ciphers.) He’s also reading a book on the Beale papers. Lyle brings Tess (and the audience up to speed): he’s a college professor, he’s got tenure now, and he has a knack for codes. This is in no way an important detail for later. He’s using one of her crosswords as a bookmark. Oh Tess, is every casual acquaintance of yours bound to be murdered? We can only hope. We cut to her and Professor Lyle Clark, who it turns out is the victim we saw in the opening sequence. Tess’s puzzlesmithing is then interrupted by a call from a Professor Clark. Her assistant suggests CHRISTMAS (which simply has to be a tongue-in-cheek reference to Hallmark’s never-ending barrage of Christmas programming).Īlso, it must be stated, nobody actually constructs puzzles this way. Tess then solicits help for her puzzle, looking for a romantic 9-letter word, second letter H. He will be helping with research, apparently. Tess meets the intern, who is (of course) a huge fan of her puzzle. She then shares weird wedding trivia with Logan, and he and his sister leave. Tess makes no promises, but says she’ll see what she can do. The sister, Angela, is also there, immediately making things more awkward, and asking if Tess can get a photo of the couple into the paper (alongside the usual wedding announcement). Logan is running around doing errands for his sister’s wedding. It’s been two months since they’ve seen each other. She then bumps into Detective O’Connor for a lovely little meet-awkward. Tess chats with her assistant Josephine about Josephine’s cousin, a new intern at the paper. We cut to detective Logan O’Connor standing over the body. He carefully sets it down with an elegant table setting for brunch, then answers a knock at the door. It’s a nice touch (and a sign that the network expects to continue with these).Īn apartment door opens, and a young man picks up his newspaper, smiling at the crossword inside. The show opens with a lovely little introductory montage with the characters framed by crossword clues and grids. If you’d like to read my conclusions but skip the spoilers, scroll down to the next solid black line. I’ll recap the story below, and then give my thoughts on the whole endeavor. This past Sunday, the second Crossword Mysteries film debuted on Hallmark Movies and Mysteries. (For reasons yet unexplained, that number has shrunk to two over the intervening months.) On March 10th, 2019, Crossword Mysteries: A Puzzle to Die For debuted, introducing the puzzle world (and the mystery world) to crossword editor Tess Harper and detective Logan O’Connor, as the unlikely duo unraveled the murder of an art dealer with a crossword puzzle in his pocket.ĭuring the final commercial break, three more Crossword Mysteries films were announced for October. In January of 2018, it was announced that Hallmark Movies and Mysteries would be teaming up with Will Shortz of The New York Times Crossword to produce a mystery film with crosswords at the heart of the story.
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