Jessica Fletcher is looking forward to the holiday season in MURDER SHE WROTE: MURDER IN SEASON. The holiday festivities are well underway in Cabot Cove and Jessica is excited for the arrival of her nephew Grady and his family. After the fire last year, Jessica will finally be back home at 698 Candlewood Lane, but when she learns a new septic system needs to be installed, she wonders when the reconstruction costs will finally end. The project comes to a screeching halt when two sets of skeletons are dug up on her property. How did they get there? It looks like the holiday season might become the homicide season.
When the skeletons are sent to the lab for analysis, it is determined that one set is from over a hundred years ago while the second set of bones are more recent. Along with the bones, a chest of documents is found dating back to the founding of Cabot Cove. It looks like the town may have a dark past and the original founders were involved in some unsavory activities. When a sensationalist reporter, Tad Hollenbeck, comes to town to do a story on the murder rate in Cabot Cove, it doesn’t take Jessica long to realize Tad has an ulterior motive. As Jessica reads the journal of an original founder, she learns that one of the other founders was a rascal and absconded with a treasure. Is Tad tied to the dead bodies and the missing treasure? Jessica decides to visit the descendants of the five original founders of Cabot Cove. Is one of them a murderer? But when Tad Hollenbeck is found dead in his motel room, Jessica wonders what he uncovered that got him killed. Can Jessica find the missing treasure and track down a killer before the Founder’s Day parade becomes the hunting ground for a cold-blooded killer?
The best-selling Murder She Wrote series is well-developed and superbly executed. It is always a pleasure to meet up again with Jessica, Mort, Seth, and Harry - the crime-solving quartet of Cabot Cove. This storyline is intriguing and the clues are thoughtfully placed. The forensics sprinkled throughout are interesting science tidbits that enhance the mystery. The suspects all have their secrets and one that shows up covered in blood has a lot of explaining to do. There are a lot of nuisances in the novel and the characters are definite personalities making this an entertaining and enjoyable holiday mystery. MURDER SHE WROTE: MURDER IN SEASON will keep you guessing until the end and spending time with Jessica and the rest of the gang at 698 Candlewood Lane is a great way to spend a cold winter day.
With work on the reconstruction of her beloved home almost complete, Jessica Fletcher is in high holiday spirits, spearheading the annual Christmas parade and preparing for her nephew Grady and his family to come to town. The only thing dampening the holiday cheer is the discovery of two sets of bones on Jessica’s property: one set ancient, the other only about a year old. It’s concluded that they were both placed there during the reconstruction, and Jessica suspects that, despite the centuries between them, the remains might be connected.
Soon tabloid reporter Tad Hollenbeck arrives in Cabot Cove to write a story about what he calls “the murder capital of the country.” But when Tad himself is murdered, Jessica speculates that his arrival, his death, and the discovery of the bones are all somehow linked.
As Jessica digs deeper to find the connection between the bones and Tad’s murder, everything seems to come back to a mystery that has long plagued Cabot Cove. If she wants to solve the case, she’ll need to delve into her beloved town’s dark history, or else this holiday season may be her last....
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