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Originally telecast over Canada's CTV network on January 29, 2002, A Killing Spring was a one-shot attempt to revive the popular Joanne Kilbourn Mysteries series (aka Criminal Instincts), starring Wendy Crewson as the ex-police-detective-turned-university-lecturer created by Gail Bowen. Missing from this feature-length whodunit is Joanne Kilbourn's longtime co-star Victor Garber, though Shane Doyle fills in admirably as the "official" representative of the law. In this one, Joanne Kilbourn returns to Lanholm College, where she had once been a professor, when the Dean of Journalism is found dead, evidently the result of autoerotic suffocation during "rough sex." Although she risks losing an important internship, Joanne insists upon investigating the death, and in the process unearths a hotbed of moral depravity and academic backstabbing. Throughout, there is one person who is willing to commit murder rather than allow Joanne to expose his innumerable peccadillos -- and the result, inevitably, is two additional corpses. In the United States, A Killing Spring was picked up by the Lifetime cable channel. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Wendy Crewson - Joanne Kilbourn
Shawn Doyle - Det. Alex Emanuel
Michael Ontkean - Tom Keaton
Zachery Ty Bryan - Val Massey
Sherry Miller - Lisa Gallagher

The murder mystery A Killing Spring follows an investigative journalist on the trail of whomever was responsible for the murder of a dean at a college. As Joanne Kilbourn interviews all of the people who might have wanted to see the man dead, she learns that academia provides a hotbed of jealousy and mistrust. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide