
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.
Jessica works hard to get her friend's (Tony Plana) Latino band a recording contract, until a murder rocks her plans.
Things look bad when a married woman's keys are found by the body in a motel room, and she can't explain why.
Seth Hazlitt's benefit concert to save the woods near Cabot Cove is endangered when the lead singer is permanently silenced.
Jessica investigates the reappearance of an heir who had been missing for over 20 years.