Murder, She Wrote: Murder in Season

Jessica Fletcher · Jon Land

Nov 2020 · Murder She Wrote Book 52 · Sold by Penguin

About this ebook

“This appealing—if murder-prone—world is a splendid place to spend a bit of the holiday season.”--Publishers Weekly

Christmas has come to Cabot Cove, but a peaceful holiday season is not in the cards after Jessica Fletcher is pulled into a centuries-old mystery in the latest entry in this USA Today bestselling series.

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....

Ratings and reviews

This author apparently never read the original book series written by Donald Bain. There are several series long inconsistencies, such as sheriff Mort divorced his first wife Adele and found his soulmate in his new wife Maureen. Yet in this book he is once again married to his first wife. Very confusing. There are more and more examples of these inconsistencies. I was definitely upset, as I adore this series, yet the new author does not have the same flare as the original. I have found the last few books almost unreadable and certainly unenjoyable and have actually not even finished them. As with all your favorite books/authors, you build up a level of standards to which you expect them to live up to. With this author, I’m just not satisfied and these last few books do not even come close to the standards set in the originals. Would highly recommend the Donald Bain ones, but not the Jon Land ones.

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About the author

Jessica Fletcher is a bestselling mystery writer who has a knack for stumbling upon real-life mysteries in her various travels. Jon Land, author of more than fifty books, coauthors this bestselling series.