FRAMED?
Jessica's art-viewing Italian vacation is interrupted by a pair of gunmen who steal a painting and kill a retired police officer in the process. Agreeing to help identify the crooks should they be caught, Jessica returns to Cabot Cove and puts the shocking experience behind her.
Months later, Wayne Simsbury, the stepson of an old friend, comes to her for help. Wayne's father has been shot to death. Not only has Wayne's stepmother, Marlise, been charged with the murder, but Wayne himself claims to have witnessed the crime. Unsure what to do, he has sought out...

THE LAST SHOT
Cabot Cove is being invaded--by Hollywood. One of Jessica's older novels is being adapted into a big-budget movie. The producer has decided to shoot on location, since the book was loosely based on a murder that shocked Cabot Cove several years earlier.
Unfortunately, everyone on the set seems to have a hidden agenda. A novice director wants his shot at the big time. The lead actress has many unreasonable demands. Her astrologer sees trouble in the stars. And a stranger on the movie lot is stalking Jessica.
When a body is found on the set, a strip of...

New in the USA Today bestselling series--Jessica Fletcher finds herself in a tropical paradise where -aloha- means both hello and goodbye. But sometimes, the goodbye is permanent...
Jessica is on the Hawaiian island of Maui, giving a lecture on community involvement in police investigations. Her co-lecturer is legendary retired detective Mike Kane, who shares his love of Hawaiian lore, legends, and culture with Jessica. But the talking stops when the body of a colleague is found at the rocky foot of a cliff.
Mala Kapule, a botanist and popular professor at Maui...

In the latest mystery in the USA Today bestselling series, Jessica Fletcher rings in the New Year with British aristocracy, but someone's about to end the life of the party....
A VERY PROPER MURDER
Jessica Fletcher and her friend Scotland Yard detective inspector George Sutherland are invited to attend a New Year's Eve Ball at Castorbrook Castle, thanks to her British publisher. Shortly after arriving in the idyllic English countryside, Jessica discovers the body of a lady's maid in the garden.
While their host, Lord Norrance, his family, and party guests squabble...

In the latest mystery in the USA Today bestselling series, there's a battle brewing between two eateries, and Jessica Fletcher will have to get cooking to find a killer...
A BEEF WITH LEBOEUF
Jessica loves the Fin & Claw restaurant, owned by young Cabot Cove couple Brad and Marcie. The eatery is the couple's dream come true, but it's quickly turning into a nightmare.
Famed chef Gerard Leboeuf has decided to open his brand of bistro right next to theirs. Given the competition, the charming chef's manner soon turns sour. Tensions rise hot and fast until they...

This collection of papers describes advances in the measurement of innovation output, principally through the use of a new technique based on scanning of trade and technical journals. Experience in several countries is assessed and the strength and weaknesses of the technique discussed. The conclusion is that, taken together with recent advances in the design of questionnaires for postal surveys of innovation, this technique provides a radically improved data source for testing innovation theories and for effective policy analysis.

In the newest in the USA Today bestselling series, Jessica Fletcher visits New York City during Fashion Week, only to discover that someone has rather fatal designs...
KILLER COUTURE
Jessica is in Manhattan to attend the debut of new designer Xandr Ebon--formerly Sandy Black of Cabot Cove. He's introducing his evening wear collection to the public and--more important--to the industry's powers that be: the stylists, magazine editors, buyers, and wealthy clientele who can make or break him.
At the show, the glitz and glamour are dazzling until a young new model...