A domineering father forces a teenager to play beyond her desire and she suffers emotional problems.

While Jessica is enjoying her stay at a fishing lodge in Ireland, she finds out the owner is beset by a consortium that wants to buy his land for a strip mine.

It seems that more than schoolboy pranks are going on between a Cabot Cove prep school and its rival.

The townspeople of Cabot Cove are concerned about a massive development on their shore and it is further complicated for Jessica since the firm employs her nephew Grady.

Jessica's excursion into the world of the fashion elite in Paris leads to murder, sweatshops and smugglers.

Homicide haunts the release of a restored movie, and Jessica investigates the current crime and the 1960 murder that prevented the original release.

When a brilliant scientist fakes his own death and is then actually murdered, Jessica sets the record straight when the wrong man is arrested.

An opera singer tries to make her debut before a stalker can fulfill his promise to kill her.

Jessica takes a trip to Egypt to finalize a cultural exchange program and ends up searching for a killer and a stolen artifact.

The pervasive stench of death looms over Jessica and Seth's visit to his cousin's South Carolina plantation.

Jessica helps a Russian police officer capture the elusive mastermind behind the theft of a Faberge egg.

The taping of an infomercial by Jessica and two fellow novelists is plagued by problems including the mysterious death of an audience member.

Jessica searches for a link between the town bully's death and the death of the woman he was having an affair with.

The mysterious deaths of a winery matriarch's son and a rival vintner lead Jessica into a world of greed and betrayal.

Charlie Garrett is in luck when Jessica is in Martinique for her vacation at the same time he is accused of murder.

In a friend's apartment, Jessica and her friends are amused and then puzzled by the strange drama unfolding on TV.

When a newspaper columnist becomes the target of a crazed gunman, Jessica's advice to be careful is ignored.

Jessica's vacation to Honolulu becomes chaotic when the son of her host vanishes during a hotly contested U.S. Senate election.

Jessica discovers a letter from George Washington that leads to a hero's disgrace and a director's murder.

Jessica's investigation of a novelist's kidnapping leads her into the dark world of diamond smuggling and murder.

In Los Angeles, to research an animal park, Jessica finds the employees trying to protect themselves in the middle of a skimmed-funds scandal. Then an amoral publicist turns up dead.