Jessica is surprised and dismayed when her first publisher - a man she helped to put behind bars - is paroled and rehired by his old firm.

When a lecherous landord is found dead, his struggling tenant becomes the prime suspect, and Jessica works to find the real killer.

Jessica's nephew is traded to a major-league baseball team, but when he becomes the prime suspect in a murder case, it's clear that a different kind of game is being played.

When the wife of Amos' deputy is found dead from what appears to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound, Jessica makes some surprising discoveries about their marriage - and about the women of Cabot Cove.

Someone is cooking the books at accounting firm Carlisle & Associates, but when one of the partners is strangled, the employees explain that there is a phantom in the building who may be guilty of the crime.

All bets are off when Jessica's day at the races becomes a murder investigation after a horse's owner is killed.

In a case of art imitating life, a disagreeable amusement park owner is found murdered after he tries to hire Jessica to design his House of Horrors.

A chance meetingn on a train embroils Jessica with foreign spies and stolen government secrets.

A terrifying ghost story threatens to become all too real when Jessica investigates the killing of wealthy American in Ireland and his connections to a haunted castle.

It's a case of publish or perish when Jessica must prove that a hard-drinking fellow mystery writer, who hasn't produced a book in years, is not responsible for a brutal crime.