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    Kellie Martin stars as a talented photographer and amateur sleuth who will discover that the key to solving a murder may lie in a simple “Snapshot,” a MYSTERY WOMAN Hallmark Channel Mystery Movie airing Sunday, November 19 (5/4c).  Mystery Woman also stars Nina Siemaszko (“The West Wing”), Clarence Williams III (“Mod Squad”) and Casey Sander (“Grace Under Fire”).

Martin, who received an Emmy® Award nomination for her performance in the acclaimed series “Life Goes On,” once more returns to the scene of the crime as Samantha Kinsey, who inherited her uncle’s Mystery Woman bookstore and uses the thrillers to solve baffling real-life crimes.

    Helping Samantha navigate the precarious twists and turns of her new avocation is Philby (Williams III) a former secret agent with a cloak-and-dagger past who is now the enigmatic manager of the bookstore.  Samantha also gets assistance from her best friend Cassie Hillman (Siemaszko), a savvy assistant district attorney whose access to inside information proves invaluable to Sam’s investigations.  The town’s lawman, Chief Connors (Sander) wishes Samantha would stick to her books and keep her nose out of his criminal investigations.

    Kellie Martin an accomplished photographer in real-life has her own images displayed around the permanent MYSTERY WOMAN set.
   
    In “Snapshot,” Samantha’s friend and Thursday Night Mayhem book club member Barbara Sommers (guest star Patty McCormack, “The Bad Seed”) has just returned home from the funeral of her brother, who died unexpectedly in a car accident.  Samantha accompanies Barbara to the reading of her brother’s will and is traumatized to find she’s been left with nothing.  Before Barbara can verify the will’s authenticity, she is shot and killed.  Samantha is certain a single snapshot will reveal the killers of both people.

    MYSTERY WOMAN was created by Michael Sloan.  Joyce Burditt, creator of the acclaimed series “Diagnosis Murder,” is executive producer and writer for the franchise. 

    MYSTERY WOMAN is a Hallmark Entertainment presentation.  Robert Halmi, Jr. and Larry Levinson are executive producers.  Nick Lombardo, Michael Moran and Amy Goldberg are co-executive producers.  Randy Pope and Lincoln Lageson are producers.   “Snapshot” was directed by Georg Stanford Brown.  The Hallmark Channel Mystery Movie is A Mat IV Production in association with Alpine Medien and Larry Levinson Productions.

    Hallmark Channel, owned and operated by Crown Media Holdings, Inc., is a 24-hour basic cable network that provides a diverse slate of high-quality entertainment programming to a national audience of 75 million subscribers.  The top tier program service is distributed through more than 5,300 cable systems and communities as well as direct-to-home satellite services across the country.  Hallmark Channel consistently ranks among the top 10 ad-supported cable networks in Total Day and Prime Time household ratings.  Crown Media also operates a second 24-hour linear channel, Hallmark Movie Channel.

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