While working on an infomercial, Jessica helps a detective friend (George DiCenzo) probe a strangulation, and tries to find out why a member of her studio audience (Gale Hansen) is found dead during the taping.
Jessica seeks a link between the electrocution of the town bully and the hanging of a teacher who was his lover.
The mysterious deaths of a winery matriarch's son and a rival vintner lead Jessica into a world of greed and betrayal.
While vacationing in Martinique, Jessica is called on to help an acquaintance (Wayne Rogers) accused of a woman's (Cassie Yates) murder.
Accidentally tapped into a closed-circuit video surveillance system, Jessica's neighbor witnesses scheming, a robbery and then a murder.
Jessica investigates when, during a visit to San Francisco, an advice columnist (Eileen Brennan) falls victim to a crazed gunman.
A Texas trucker (Earl Holliman) is charged with insurance fraud his son (Patrick Cassidy) is accused of murder.
Fresh blood stains indicate foul play when Seth (William Windom) disappears a proliferation of strangers in town raises Jessica's suspicions.
The closing of a family-owned department store leads to a double murder in New York, and Jessica has no shortage of suspects in the crime.
Infrared cameras seem to prove Jessica's writing student is guilty of killing his abusive stepfather.
Jessica refuses to believe that the editor of her latest book has committed suicide and is determined to find out the truth.
Jessica attempts to clear the name of a Cabot Cove fisherman who is suspected of murdering a Chicago hit man.
An art gallery owner is stabbed to death with a sculpture belonging to Jessica's friend (Loretta Swit).
Jessica discovers clues to a puzzling murder when she is a guest star on a friend's television cooking show.
Jessica happens on a computerized clue to a murder while writing a mystery story for a friend's interactive video game company.
Jessica comes to the aid of a promising young reporter when he is suspected of murdering a rival magazine's unscrupulous publisher.
A stranger obsessed with restoring a Cabot Cove landmark is killed after he is suspected of being a vampire.
Jessica's editor is accused of murdering a developer opposed to the preservation of a historic New York brownstone.
Jessica's trip to Hong Kong is interrupted by the murder of an American businessman negotiating a merger with a Chinese tycoon.
Jessica investigates the murder of a visiting romance novelist's assistant, who was having an affair with the writer's publisher husband.