Jessica masquerades as a wealthy widow at a luxurious tropical hotel in order to trap a murderer.

A notorious corner-cutting hotel tycoon with many enemies is found dead on the site of his proposed Cabot Cove high-rise hotel. An unearthed skeleton may belong to a Revolutionary War hero. A 1960's radical's past life catches up to him.

Jessica's niece, an actress in a daytime drama, becomes a suspect when the head writer for the show is murdered.

A mother and daughter become involved in a murder. Jessica must look between the lines to discover the truth and the murderer.

Jessica is devastated to learn her cousin Emma's untimely passing, but when she arrives in London she learns that Emma isn't dead after all, but has been in hiding after threats on her life.

When a phone call from Francesca's supposedly dead first husband precedes a fatal incident, Jessica must unravel the truth from hysteria to find a killer.

Jessica spends a little time at a lakeside inn where she witnesses what appears to be a struggle and a woman falling into the lake.

Jessica goes to the races to watch her niece ride the winning horse but then the horse's disagreeable owner is murdered after a dispute.

Jessica visits a women's prison and is held captive when an uprising occurs because of abuse and murder at the facility.

Cabot Cove is flooded with poison pen letters which proves hard for the town to handle as Amos prepares to hand the reins over to a new sheriff.

An archaeological dig, potentially the site of Coronado's City of Gold, does not please everyone as a new corpse is discovered.

A former student of Jessica's becomes involved in a love triangle that ends in murder.

It's a bad day for the jurors when Jessica is the foreperson of the jury hearing the case of a man claiming self-defense in the death of an enraged husband.

Poisoned strawberry preserves served at the Joshua Peabody Inn result in murder.

The justice system is tested when a group of angry rednecks form a lynch party and plan to hang a murder suspect.

Jessica must find the murderer of her close friend whose will is in contention between family and a popular evangelist.

Jessica finds herself in a tough spot when one of the auctioneers of a diary is murdered and she has to rely on Harry McGraw to help her out.

Cabot Cove residents gather for a funeral and discover the coffin contains the wrong body. Where is Henry Veron, who is the dead mystery man, and was it murder?

Jessica must find out the truth when the ruthless owner of a periodical is murdered.

Jessica attends a tennis tournament as the guest of honor. She struggles to protect her former student Carol when her boyfriend is blown up in her car and she is the only suspect.

In New Orleans at Mardi Gras, a distant cousin of Jessica is falsely accused of murder.

Jessica is spending her holidays with an old friend, Lloyd Marcus. His daughter is found murdered in her house and her husband Donald becomes the prime suspect.