Review
By Jessica Fletcher & Terrie Farley Moran
The Sixty-Second Murder, She Wrote Mystery
It's autumn in Maine, that glorious time of year when the trees are at their showiest in colors, of reds, oranges, and yellows. It's also the time throughout the Northeast United States when leaf peepers abound and Cabot Cove is no exception. In fact, Jessica Fletcher meets four young women traveling from Florida to see the changing leaves. When one of the women is reported missing no one other than her fellow travelers is too concerned. But when newspaper editor Dan Andrews peers over the edge of the ridge looking for his lost valve he finds a body in the trees, a body Jessica quickly realizes is that of the missing woman.
There's not much better than having Jessica Fletcher home in Maine in autumn. I love how she quietly goes about her life, enjoying her work and her friends and solving a murder. One of the things I like best about Jessica Fletcher as an amateur sleuth is that she observes instead of actively investigating. Sure she gets close to the people involved, but she's not running around following leads. She's leading her life, but observes everything and is able to make connections as a more cerebral sleuth.
The mystery was solid. A young leaf peeper, who has unwanted attentions is found murdered. Not only that someone on a bicycle is going around snatching purses. Are these crimes connected? Does Wendy Lu Shaffer have a connection to Cabot Cove? If anyone can find out it's Jessica Fletcher!
Good friends sharing good food and adding murder amidst autumnal splendor makes MURDER, SHE WROTE: THE BODY IN THE TREES a quintessentially cozy mystery.
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Murder, She Wrote: The Body in the Trees by Jessica Fletcher & Terrie Farley Moran
About Murder, She Wrote: The Body in the Trees
Cozy Mystery 62nd in Series
Setting - Maine
Publisher: Berkley
Hardcover Print Length: 272 pages
The newest entry in the USA Today bestselling Murder, She Wrote series. It's leaf-peeping season in Cabot Cove, but for someone, it's killing season! A quartet of friends from Florida have come to Maine to experience a New England autumn, complete with hiking in the woods and fishing. When one of them goes missing, the town rallies to find the presumably lost but otherwise safe tourist. But when newspaper editor Dan Andrews is biking on the trail along a ridge, he looks down and sees a leg caught in the branches of a tree. Count on Jessica Fletcher to uncover the secret reason the victim came to town . . . and how it led to her murder.
About the Authors
Jessica Fletcher is a bestselling mystery writer who has a knack for stumbling upon real-life mysteries in her various travels.
Terrie Farley Moran is the bestselling author of the Read 'Em and Eat cozy mystery series, including the Agatha Award-winning Well Read, Then Dead. Along with Jessica Fletcher, she co-writes the Murder She Wrote mystery series. She also co-writes the Scrapbooking Mysteries with Laura Childs. Terrie's short mystery fiction has been published in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, Mystery Weekly, and numerous anthologies. "A Killing at the Beausoleil" was nominated for an Agatha Award for Best Short Story. "Inquiry and Assistance" received the Derringer Award for Best Novelette.
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