Lost Letter Mysteries: The Impossible Dream - review

The latest instalment from this cosy series opens with the Postables sitting in front of an emergency session of the United States Congress committee. As the chairman enquires as to the reason for the session, the Postables recount their last few days in order to fill her in.

With Rita being a candidate for Miss Postable Colorado, the team are off to the state final in Washington DC where they all have their own things they wish to do during the trip. Shayne aims to visit her childhood home, but is upset when she discovers it has been demolished and Oliver wishes to visit the Pony Express Exhibit at the Post Museum in order to find closure following his wife leaving him there a few years before.

When the team check into their hotel they bump into Phoebe Abbernon and her grandfather, who they became acquainted with the year before following the arrival of a letter which may have been written by Phoebe’s mother who had gone missing & was presumed dead in Afghanistan following a mission gone wrong. As they say their hellos, Shayne has an idea to help them and enlists the help of a former boyfriend who happens to work in the Special Forces in an attempt to try and find out what actually happened to Phoebe’s mum.

While Rita prepares for her performance at the final of Miss Special Delivery, Oliver and the others work together with Steve in the hope of finally unravelling the mystery of Phoebe’s mum’s disappearance. But it’s Rita’s photographic memory which comes in handy when they are briefly shown a classified file containing a letter which appears to have been written by Phoebe’s mum with clues as to an escape plan.

The reason for the emergency meeting then becomes clear as the Postables believe the letter was written in code to Phoebe to inform her of her mother’s escape and asks that she is met by fellow army people to rescue her. But as the information is classified and therefore they shouldn’t have witnessed it, the Postables have a hard task on their hands if they are to convince the meeting to send a rescue party out on a dangerous mission in the hope of rescuing someone who has been presumed dead.

Meanwhile in an attempt to show how much he loves her, Norman tries to show Rita something he has been carrying around in an envelope the entire trip, but when he shows her she doesn’t react in the way he hoped. However when she realises why he did it, she forgives him and they finally share their first kiss.

I love this series of TV movies and this one was no exception.

Cosy easy watching, this movie was a joy to watch and I’ll definitely be watching the next one.