Murder, She Wrote

A foiled prison escape results in the death of the prisoner who attempted to break out. As a result, Jessica is sued by the convict's daughter for his death and for what she deem his wrongful conviction, since Jessica's involvement in his criminal trial sent him to jail for life.

Jessica tries to exonerate a temporary employee accused of her husband's murder.

Dennis Stanton tries to clear a man of charges he murdered an unscrupulous divorce attorney.

Jessica reopens a 16-year-old murder case at the urging of a dying author who felt injustice was done.

Jessica's night at a political fund-raiser turns to murder.

The owner of a new, hot fitness club in Cabot Cove has secrets that lead to murder.

Out on parole, Jessica's former publisher tries to woo her back into the fold.

An alleged Twain manuscript begets greed, deception, arson, and murder.

Jessica gets enmeshed in feuds, infidelity, and murder in Nashville.

Dennis Stanton investigates when a prominent pianist's wife is murdered shortly after the pianist's hands are badly burnt.

A quiet dinner out for Seth and Jessica ends abruptly when he is forced to care for an injured Mafia kingpin. Will Seth and Jessica survive?

Dennis Stanton must prove his innocence when he is accused of murdering a flames estranged husband.

Sheriff Metzer defies political pressure and arrests an ambassador's son for various charges. Later, the son is found dead and Metzger finds himself charged with murder.

A fan, posing as Jessica, is arrested and later murdered.

An IRS-plagued woman may have killed her informer husband.

A clash between Kentucky Thoroughbred breeders leads to murder.

The presumed dead perpetrator of a 20-year-old bank robbery resurfaces, then is murdered.

A shy ventriloquist is suspected of murdering a ruthless comedy club owner.

Following an explosion at the school site that an architect designed, he is accused of setting the blast and then ultimately killing the jobsite manager when the manager was accused of unsafe and shoddy work on the job. The architect's mother is frantic to get the cops to uncover bribery in the city manager office and to find who really caused all the commotion at the job site, so she tries to convince Jessica that her son is the fruit of an affair she had with Frank while serving together during the Korean War.

Jessica is passing through Pennsylvania to promote her newest book. However, when her publisher's liaison's car breaks down on the outskirts of the Amish area, she learns that he comes from the area and is "shunned" from the local Amish community. When one of the church leaders is discovered murdered in his barn, Reuben is the prime suspect when it comes out that he and the victim had a volatile past. To prove that he is innocent, Jessica has her work cut out to prove someone from the normally non-violent Amish community may have wanted the overly-strict man out of their lives permanently.

The poisoning deaths of three customers point to the local diner owner.

A writer is murdered after sending Jessica a manuscript exposing a kidnapping scam.