Stranglehold, Rottenberg - B+

          On a Monday morning when Ari Greene, senior detective in Toronto, shows up at a chintzy motel for his weekly assignation with the married Crown Prosecutor, he finds her strangled. Before he can consider his next step, he hears sirens in the distance and steps away. When the investigating detective, Kennicott, tells him about the case, he decides to keep quiet, and concludes he needs to solve the case on his own. As clues start to come in, Kennicott begins to think that perhaps the mystery man seen at the motel that morning was Greene, and arrests him for murder. The trial begins, and the prosecution lays out its circumstantial evidence case. The defense counters, and slowly spreads doubt about the timeline. The court is adjourned for the weekend when the truth is spectacularly splashed all over Toronto's television news and papers on. Thrilled to find a series with a decade-and-a-half of stories to tell.