QDoes Nora Roberts have a cameo?
AYes. About 20 minutes from the end of the movie, just after Bo and Gib (Eric Keenleyside) are discussing building a pergola onto the restaurant, Reena has a flashback to when she was 11, watching the restaurant burn down. The camera pans across some of the bystanders and rests for a few seconds on a crowd of five people. Roberts can be seen in the middle of the crowd, her red hair making her a standout.
QIs 'Blue Smoke' based on a book?
AYes, Blue Smoke is a 2005 novel by American romance novelist Nora Roberts. The novel was adapted for the movie by Ronni Kern.
QWhat is 'Blue Smoke' about?
AEver since she watched Sirico's, her family's Baltimore pizzeria, go up in flames, Catarina 'Reena' Hale (Alicia Witt) has wanted to be an arson investigator. Now having completed her training and passed her 'smoke-eaters' (graduation) test, Reena is certified to work side-by-side with her longtime mentor John Minger (Scott Bakula), whom she met during the investigation of her family's restaurant, and is finally realizing her dream...until her boyfriend and soon-to-be fiance Josh Bolton (John Reardon) is killed in a fire. When the same thing happens to her next boyfriend Hugh (Benjamin Ayres), clues point to the fact that both cases were deliberately set and aimed at exacting revenge against her. Now Reena must use her investigative skills to track down the killer before he does the same thing to her new boyfriend, Bowen 'Bo' Goodnight (Matthew Settle).
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