Jessica heads off to New York to begin teaching and has difficulty finding an apartment. She finally gets one that she likes, only to learn that a murder recently took place in the apartment complex and that someone desperately wants something that is inside her apartment. She's relieved when Seth comes to New York to check up on her, and enlists his help in cracking the case.
Former policeman Wallace Evans, now a professor, challenges Jessica to a race to solve a series of muggings on campus, and the muggings soon escalate to murder.
After Jane Dawson informs Jessica of her plans to write an unauthorized biography on her good friend Ellen Lombard, Ellen's husband Arthur comes under suspicion when Jane's sister and husband find her dead body electrocuted after a T.V. was dropped in her hot tub, and Arthur is seen leaving the house.
When his younger brother Wayne, the family's black sheep, becomes chief suspect in the murder of his employer, Sherrif Metzger relies on Jessica to help him keep his perspective about the case.
Teaching a computer class seems tame, but not when Jessica is one of the students.
The death of a rhythm and blues legend and subsequent murder of his bass player reopen the 20-year-old unsolved murder of the musician's wife.
Evidence points to the battered wife of a powerful businessman as his killer, but Jessica establishes that there is a long list of suspects who wished him dead.
Jessica stakes her life on slim odds when she investigates a murder.
The governing committee of an exclusive men's club commissions Jessica to identify a rogue member's killer--who likely serves on the committee.
Chance possession of a secret intelligence document lands Jessica in the center of an international web of intrigue and murder.
When a beautiful ballerina dies during her preniere performance in a new ballet, Jessica is convinced it is murder.
The thespians of Cabot Cove put on a play about a 17th century woman who cursed the town before she was executed as a witch.
The Bates House of the movie, Psycho, is to be the setting of Jessica's book in the film made at Universal Studios.
Jessica is brought into the case of a murdered financier and the theft of his wife's diamonds in Monaco.
No one wants to believe that Jessica found a body in her hotel suite in London and they don't want her to believe it, either.
A real life soap opera involves a soap star, her co-star, and the victim--her millionaire husband.
All of Jessica's intuitive and deductive skills are called into play when she sets out to clear a university colleague of a murder charge.
There is something strange about a software expert's sudden death from bleeding ulcers that just doesn't compute.
The theft of a priceless artifact from Mexico City museum leads Jessica into a labyrinth of clues, where murder is the fact behind the Mask of Montezuma.
While Jessica is in Carmel, California, consoling a well-known playwright haunted by his wife's suicide, another family member is murdered.
Jessica intervenes when a long-lost Army buddy of her friend Seth is accused of murder.
Jessica plays a real-life version of her own murder mystery board-game when the toy company she's working with becomes the scene of the crime.