"When you asked me out tonight, I was 99% sure that breaking and entering wasn't part of the plan."-Jonas "It's not breaking and entering if you have a key and you are a close friend, and you're not going to steal anything."-Hailey "Yeah, I'm sure that's written in to the Georgia penal code."-Jonas

This is the 2nd entry in the Hailey Dean mysteries in which Hailey, former special prosecutor for district attorney's office turned counselor meets friend Pam post her parents death. Pam is a professor and in the process of using a estate agent to sell her parents home and household items. She has struck up a relationship with her real estate agent, which leads to a double date with Hailey and Jonas. Pam goes missing and Hailey is convinced there is foul play. She ropes her friends and Jonas in to helping her find her friend.

In the process Hailey and Jonas commit a dubious break in to Pam's house which could cost Jonas his Medical Examiner's job and causes a bit of a riff in their growing relationship.

This episode starts and end with Hailey remembering the night that her ex, Will, was shot and killed in front of her. But this time she remembers a critical detail in which she thinks the killer was after her and that it wasn't just a random crime...news which she shares with Will's brother the police officer.

I still find the best part of this series to be the character of Jonas, who gets to both be deeply and sweetly caring in addition to adding some comic relief. By far he has some of the best lines in the series.

"You shouldn't be with anyone who won't accept your baggage. We wouldn't be human if we didn't have any."-Jonas

With some leftover issues from the previous Hailey Dean Mystery, Deadly Estate finds our former prosecutor turned psychotherapist now involved in looking for her friend Michelle Harrison settle her estate. With both parents now deceased and Harrison wants to sell the old family home now worth a few pretty pennies. I can identify with that as my brother had to do the same thing. Neither of us had a boyfriend who was a real estate broker to help push things a long who is played here by Jim Thorburn.

But in the middle of selling Harrison disappears, Thorburn is nearly hit by a car and Hailey's new boyfriend Matthew McCaul of the Medical Examiner's office nearly dies from a poisoning.

Kellie Martin is now hip deep involved and appears to be in the middle of all this. The solution however exposes a pair of criminals involved in a very deadly scam.

Martin is a calm and very plucky heroine. Still she has unresolved issues from the Hailey Dean story and it looks like she will be dealing with them for the foreseeable future.

Fans will look forward.

7/10 - captivating mystery, had no idea who did it