Carl Deuker -- Books, Movies, TV

Famous for the swimming scene,which is great, but there's nothing else here. Boring

Opioid crisis. Bosch goes undercover and almost gets killed. Old case is dredged up.  Bosch is accused (wrongly) of falsifying the conviction.  He hires an old nemesis to be his lawyer.  They win, the bad guy goes back to jail, Bosch is vindicated.  Maddy lurks around worrying about Dad--sort of a combination daughter/wife/mom/sister. Lots of furrowed brows for her. Not bad.

England in India during WWII.  Susan and Sarah are sisters.  Sarah unconventional, perhaps headed toward marriage with Indian, which would be shocking.  Susan marries, her husband dies in battle, she tries to burn her baby. Lurking Ronald Merrick.  Sadist, hates the Indians, suppressed gay.  He tortures one Indian who had the audacity to have an affair with English woman, Daphne. Daphne dies in childbirth (the Indian's child).  Ronald loved Daphne, now seems to love Sarah.  She seems much too smart for him.  We'll see. entertaining but not great . . . not close.

Three men (two brothers and a friend) discover 4.4 million in a crashed plane in wintry Dakotas, MInnesota????  One of the brothers is the smart one, a college grad. He at first wants to turn over the $ to the police.  His brother and friend talk him out of that.  DRUG MONEY, they say. No one will claim it. It's not stealing. "Smart" brother agrees.  They'll keep the money hidden till spring, then divide it up and move away.  Simple But. Smart brother decides to return some of the money to the plane because there should be some there.  As he's doing so, a farmer comes along. Billy Bob Thornton, dumb brother, panics and smashes in the farmer's head.  Then smart brother finishes him off and dumps his body in creek. Next, friend wants his share early.  Smart brother's wife wants to trick friend into confessing to the murder of the farmer on secret tape by a ruse.  Tell me how you'd have done it?  Once his confession is on tape, they c...