Jessica travels to Rome to help rewrite the script for the filming of one of her books, but the filming takes a tragic turn when a stuntman dies.
A research trip to New Orleans plunges Jessica into the world of the occult, when a businessman dies, and a voodoo doll is evidence.
Jessica finds no mourners, but plenty of suspects after a young tennis pro's domineering father is killed.
Jessica visits Ireland soon after an American tourist's corpse lands in a wishing well near Tom Dempsey's (Rod Taylor) fishing lodge.
An ambitious professor (Nicholas Surovy) at a New England prep school campaigns for the retiring headmaster's (Roy Dotrice) position, only to wind up as a murder victim after winning the post.
A plan to develop Cabot Cove ends badly when the chief financial investor's wife takes a nose dive into the bay.
The murder of a French designer's estranged son leads Jessica into the world of smuggling and sweatshops.
Homicide haunts the release of a restored movie, and Jessica investigates the current crime and the 1960 murder that prevented the original release.
Pressured by corporate sponsors, a Nobel Prize-winning scientist (Bruce Weitz) fakes his death, then turns up dead.
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.
Jessica's vacation to Honolulu becomes chaotic when the son of her host, power broker Matt Kinkaid, vanishes during a hotly contested U.S. Senate election.
Jessica's discovery that Cabot Cove's Revolutionary War hero was actually a traitor results in a TV director's murder.
Internal strife at an earthquake-shaken California zoo culminates in an employee's death from snake bite.
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).