Jessica takes a teaching position in New York, gets an apartment and finds its previous tenant has been murdered.

A professor and ex-cop challenges Jessica to a race to solve a series of campus muggings.

A murdered writer leaves a devoted sister, a grieving husband, and a tangle of secrets for Jessica to sort.

Sheriff Metzger assumes his younger brother, the black sheep of the family, is guilty as charged, of murder.

Jessica trades in her typewriter for a computer and Michael, one of her students, takes her to the company where he works to get setup. When one of their programmers is murdered, Michael is arrested. A missed phone call is the key.

Jessica probes a 20-year-old unsolved murder after attending the funeral of a New Orleans jazz great.

When a friend is charged with murdering her abusive husband, Jessica tries to help.

Jessica tries to disprove charges against her friend's boyfriend, suspected of murdering a Las Vegas casino manager.

Jessica is the first women to speak at a function at an all-male club, then a member is murdered.

Once again, a reluctant Jessica is drawn into Michael Hagarty's spy world when a retiring KGB agent hides a coded list of undercover MI6 agents in her book at a Trade Reception.

Jessica unravels the death of a ballerina after she dances a ballet that has killed everyone who has tried it.

Cabot Cove suspects a woman playing a witch in a community play is the real thing.

The would-be producer of the movie adaptation of Jessica's latest book dies.

Jessica probes a Monte Carlo murder for which her hotelier friend is a suspect.

Jessica gets involved in a British Intelligence operation's cover-up of a double agent's murder.

An actress neighbor involves Jessica in her husband's murder.

Jessica tackles the mystery of a man who apparently migrated from Ireland to New York for the sole purpose of taking revenge on an old friend of hers, but is killed himself.

A computer programmer's death may mean a malpractice suit for Seth, but Jessica suspects murder.

The noise and costumes of the Mexican "Day of the Dead" fiesta make it hard for Jessica to identify a killer.

Martin Tremaine (played by Darren McGavin), a playwright haunted by his wife's suicide, loses another family member to murder.

Jessica intervenes when Seth's long-lost Army buddy is accused of murder.

Jessica plays a real-life version of her own murder mystery board-game when the toy company she's working with becomes the scene of the crime.