Best Episodes
An unassuming mystery writer turned sleuth uses her professional insight to help solve real-life homicide cases.
Written by Sophie and last updated on jan 26, 2023.
PS: The following content contains spoilers!
PPS: I will admit that parts of this page was written with the help of AI - it makes my work so much easier to not start from a blank page!
When a beautiful ballerina dies during her preniere performance in a new ballet, Jessica is convinced it is murder.
The episode was rated 7.71 from 38 votes.
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.
The episode was rated 7.73 from 44 votes.
A real life soap opera involves a soap star, her co-star, and the victim--her millionaire husband.
The episode was rated 7.73 from 44 votes.
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.
The episode was rated 7.84 from 45 votes.
There is something strange about a software expert's sudden death from bleeding ulcers that just doesn't compute.
The episode was rated 7.88 from 49 votes.
Teaching a computer class seems tame, but not when Jessica is one of the students.
The episode was rated 7.91 from 44 votes.
Evidence points to the battered wife of a powerful businessman as his killer, but Jessica establishes that there is a ling list of suspects who wished him dead.
The episode was rated 7.93 from 46 votes.
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.
The episode was rated 7.98 from 48 votes.
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.
The episode was rated 8.00 from 45 votes.
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 episode was rated 8.00 from 49 votes.
Jessica stakes her life on slim odds when she investigates a murder.
The episode was rated 8.00 from 41 votes.
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.
The episode was rated 8.00 from 49 votes.
Chance possession of a secret intelligence document lands Jessica in the center of an international web of intrigue and murder.
The episode was rated 8.07 from 45 votes.
The Bates House of the movie, Psycho, is to be the setting of Jessica's book in the film made at Universal Studios.
The episode was rated 8.08 from 50 votes.
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.
The episode was rated 8.21 from 56 votes.
