Jessica is asked to help solve the "impossible" murder of a wealthy, and much disliked, amusement park owner.

While in New Orleans, Jessica must solve the mysterious murder of a famous musician who died while performing onstage.

While spending time at a lake, Jessica sees what appears to be a struggle and a woman falling from a boat into the lake.

Investigation of a claim that the deceased was murdered leads the police to discover that the wrong body is in the coffin.

At the request of aunt Mildred, Jessica agrees to stop by New Orleans to check on cousin Cal while on her way to Houston. No sooner does Jessica get to New Orleans then she is tossed into a Mardi Gras party where the host ends up dead, and Cal is accused of the crime. While attempting to clear Cal's name and reputation, Jessica delves into the world of cheating poker players, cheating girlfriends and vengefilled police officers while trying to convince a local lieutenant that Cal is not capable of murder.

A retired policeman decides to re-examine an old case he never solved in which Seth was a strong suspect.

Jessica reluctantly agrees to do an interview for an old friend, Paula Roman, but is surprised when Kevin Keats, a journalist who had been doing a series of stories on an art dealer who was really a drug dealer, shows up to do the interview, complete with cameras and crew. After Kevin is presumed dead when a boat Amos chartered for him explodes, Cabot Cove explodes with press and paparazzi, and the citizens blame Jessica for all the problems it causes, demanding that she solve the mystery. Unfortunately, once Keats is revealed to be alive and well, the real question is who the true target was.

The murder of the leading lady's understudy disrupts rehearsals of a play starring two previously married, but now warring, actors.

The 'headless' horseman rides again, but his costume becomes more realistic.

Theft and murder of the courier occur on board a jet bound for London.

An artist is murdered and his prized painting is missing.

After the engagement party for the offspring of two estranged comics, someone is found dead.

Cousin Emma in London has a new problem when someone serves her lover poisoned herring.

A resident of Cabot Cove threatens the Native American who claims to own the land, and later is found dead.

Grady gets into a spot again when he is found with the body of woman known from college days and now had been dating a frat brother who was married.

Seth's family is touched by an ancient curse attached to the history of a ruby.

Jessica visits her old friend Eugene McClendon, who soon stands accused of the murder of an old friend, Jonathan Keeler. While helping clear Eugene's name, Jessica learns that her friend believes he is dying, and is surprised when he asks her to marry him so that she can look after his affairs once he's gone. Jessica agrees, but only so that they can expose Jonathan's true killer.

The Gambini family gathers to celebrate the 75th birthday of the patriarch and a murder.

Somebody put the maitre d' on ice. Jessica wonders if she has made a bad investment.

A senatorial hopeful is murdered and his wife's necklace stolen.

The coal miner's daughter thinks the mine owner is responsible for her father's death and someone takes action.

A psychic's predictions have come true, convincing a rancher's daughter that the next one, a fatal fire, will happen.

A long missing heir turns up and trouble ensues.

A small town editor in Montana threatens to claim in public that he is the real author of a dead man's manuscript.

The backstage activities are more exciting than the opera as a famous tenor suffers a heart attack after a shooting.

Jessica is trying to learn to invest, but this wasn't the best day for it.

Insurance investigator Dennis Stanton, who uses his skills as an ex-thief to solve crimes, returns to investigate a theft and two murders.

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.

This time it is the company controller that seems to have been the victim of the previously convicted publisher.

In Boston, Jessica and Seth are captured by the angry son of one of Seth's patients who didn't survive.

A snoopy fan in Texas impersonates Jessica when she starts investigating a potential dog show scandal and Jessica is reported dead.

The brewery family is angry when they find out the writer acting as spokesperson for them has written an expose.

After Jane Dawson informs Jessica of her plans to write an unauthorized biography on her good friend Ellen Lombard, Ellen's husband Arthur comes under suspicion when Jane's sister and husband find her dead body electrocuted after a T.V. was dropped in her hot tub, and Arthur is seen leaving the house.

Teaching a computer class seems tame, but not when Jessica is one of the students.

Evidence points to the battered wife of a powerful businessman as his killer, but Jessica establishes that there is a long list of suspects who wished him dead.

All of Jessica's intuitive and deductive skills are called into play when she sets out to clear a university colleague of a murder charge.

While Jessica is in Carmel, California, consoling a well-known playwright haunted by his wife's suicide, another family member is murdered.

Jessica's former student, a reporter, returns to Cabot Cove with new evidence on a 30-year-old scandal involving two of the founding families.

While they are visitors at an estate in Ireland, Jessica and friend Seas are convinced that their host's demise is not from natural causes.

The personal manager of a 'resting' actor dies just as his client returns to the stage.

A delivery boy says he was only a witness when he is found kneeling beside the victim.

A new Victorian house owner is killed in the manner befitting a vampire -- a wooden stake in his chest.

A man thinks he should get royalties from a book based on his case, written by Jessica.

Jessica is shocked to learn that her editor has taken a flying leap from his high-rise office.

A truck hijacker comes to the end of the road.

It is no sleight of hand when the crooked carnival magician is murdered.

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

Murder, plagiarisim, and blackmail stalk those around Jessica on her promotional book tour.

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

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

Motorcycle racing in Osaka, Japan, puts a man's life in danger when he tries to wed a girl from a traditional Japanese family.

Jessica is booked for a seminar in Australia when she gets word that she may have claim to an inheritance in the area--land used for sheep grazing. The natives are not all happy with this.