Upon receiving a letter from longtime friend and MI-6 Agent Michael Hagarty, Jessica reads about his latest adventure that takes him to Palermo, Italy that involves several double and triple crosses involving a young widow in her attempt to fleece her Mafioso in-laws.

Grady and his pregnant wife are tending Jessica's house in her absence when an old seaman is killed in her front room.

Jessica's cousin is left waiting at the church when her fiancée is murdered in a similar fashion to a murder 15 years ago for which her brother was blamed.

Jessica's friend, former jewel thief Dennis Stanton, solves a high-society collector's coin theft and murder.

Jessica's friend, police Lt. O'Malley, and his rookie niece solve the case of a businessman's wife's apparent suicide.

A show cancellation coincides with a network executive's murder.

Murder occurs at the reunion of a variety show, site of a similar crime 25 years earlier.

Jessica learns that real estate deals in Beverly Hills can be murder when her niece Victoria is the prime suspect in the murder of a client whose exclusive contract she held was about to expire. As a result, Jessica promptly starts butting heads with the police lieutenant in charge of the investigation when she tries to get him to search for other suspects who would have a better motive than Victoria.

Jessica learns that high finance can be murder when she arrives in New York to talk about her portfolio and discovers her stock broker has been murdered and his secretary is the prime suspect. Doubting that the secretary and her boyfriend had anything to do with the crime, Jessica starts to investigate and discovers her stock broker hasn't been doing his job on the up and up and some shady business partners are actually the ones responsible for his death.

Following the murder of a womanizing landlord who was hated by several people in town, a newcomer to town named Marla who works at a local shoe factory is accused of the crime. Suspicious that something is afoul, Jessica offers to help the woman out 2 ways: one by taking care of her son while she's in jail, and to prove she didn't kill the man. However, with several lies about where she was at the time of his death, things are stacking up against Marla, resulting in Jessica having her work cut out for her.

Jessica's latest novel is about a bumbling down on his luck private detective sets out to prove a recently found dead John Doe in a small Southwestern town are the remains of his beloved uncle, who skipped town years ago. However, upon arriving to claim the body, he and his girlfriend get caught up in helping the sheriff solve a murder.

Scandal abounds during election time in Cabot Cove when the Mayor is reputed to have a secret wife who comes to confront him with murderous results.

Jessica narrates the tale of a police detective sent to teach a university criminology class and challenges his students to solve a real homicide.

On a dark and stormy night on a remote island, Jessica finds herself in the middle of a wealthy family squabbling over the inheritance of a millionaire.

Jessica is drawn into an appropriately melodramatic situation when a renowned opera singer is accused of murder in San Francisco.

Voodoo black magic is the apparent cause of death of her host, leaving Jessica to figure out the truth while visiting an old friend in Jamaica.

Jessica's acquisition of an old bureau at a rummage sale unleashes a chain of events that leads to the death of a local volunteer fireman in a furniture store.

Jessica narrates the story of an ex-football player turned private eye who investigates the murder of his old teammate with the help of a savvy pooch.

In Palm Springs, Jessica teams up with the local chief of police to figure out who killed a local investor and what happened to a large amount of money.

Jessica narrates a story from 40 years ago when another female mystery writer helped to solve a mysterious murder aboard the Queen Mary.

When a visiting priest at Cabot Cove's Catholic Church hears the confession of an individual who just committed murder, he finds himself in a sticky situation when another person is arrested for the crime. Realizing the predicament he's in, he turns to Jessica for help in uncovering the identity of person who actually committed the crime so the innocent man can be set free without breaking the confidence of the confessional.

Jessica is detoured from a scheduled book tour after encountering MI6 agent Michael Haggerty and he convinces her to pose as his wife in Greece.