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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Cabot Cove's townspeople are concerned about a proposed massive coastline development. It's more complicated for Jessica as the development company in question employs her nephew, Grady. Soon, malfeasance and murder are ushered in.

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

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.

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