
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 may be forced into public office when a woman arrives in town claiming Cabot Cove's bachelor mayor is the father of her five children.
The questionable identity of a body found by a railroad track leads to murder and becomes the inspiration for Jessica's latest novel.
Jessica befriends a Cabot Cove newcomer who is a murder suspect.
Murder plays a part in the death of a wealthy woman who leaves her fortune to an evangelist instead of her family.