
Mystery writer and amateur detective Jessica Fletcher - a down-to-earth, middle-aged widow - ferrets out the criminals in idyllic Cabot Cove, Maine, which apparently is the murder capital of the United States for the show's 12-season run. Though while traveling, she uncovers a fair number of killers as well.

New computer owner Jessica discovers hackers gathering information for blackmail, a crime that leads to murder.

Jessica's editor is accused of murdering a developer opposed to the preservation of a historic New York brownstone.

Jessica probes a 20-year-old unsolved murder after attending the funeral of a New Orleans jazz great.

A stranger obsessed with restoring a Cabot Cove landmark is killed after he is suspected of being a vampire.