Murder, She Wrote: Snowy with a Chance of Murder by Jessica Fletcher, Barbara Early
Series: Murder, She Wrote #60
Genres: Cozy Mystery
In a nod to Rear Window, this newest entry in the USA Today bestselling Murder, She Wrote series finds Jessica Fletcher coping with an injury that leaves her homebound—and a murder just outside her window!
Jessica Fletcher has taken a nasty spill on the ice, leaving her in a wheelchair for several weeks. She tries to work on her latest manuscript but finds herself distracted by a new neighbor moving in across the street. There’s good reason for her to be distracted, because soon after unpacking his sparse belongings, Mr. Rymer is out in the front yard, building somewhat risqué (read: naked) snow sculptures.
While Cabot Cove debates whether the sculptures are a protected form of art or a public display of lewdness, someone starts destroying them at night. Rymer doesn’t seem upset. He just makes new ones. No need to get the police involved over a little snow, he says. Especially when there’s plenty more of it and a blizzard in the forecast.
The morning after the storm, Jessica looks out the window to see a new sculpture across the street—and the body of Mr. Rymer half-buried in the snow. Can Jessica catch a cold-blooded killer from her chair by the window?
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Review
One thing I had in mind when I started this book was Jessica Fletcher from the television show and I am pleased to see her here in this book. Having not read any of the other books in the series I only had one Jessica in my mind. In this book Jessica is homebound due to a fall on the ice. While that would be enough to drive anyone crazy it wouldn’t be a good mystery without a dead body. Jessica watches as Floyd and one of her neighbors uncover the dead body of her new neighbor, Mr. Rymer.
Jessica has no idea how he could have possibly died and she tries to help Mort solve this case as best as she can from a wheelchair. Of course the death happens among some other things going on in Cabot Cove. All in all this is a great book and having this be the first in the series I have actually read I can say it is very easy to start here and know what is going on.
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Meet the Author
About Barbara Early
Barbara Early earned an engineering degree, but after four years of doing nothing but math, developed a sudden allergy to the subject and decided to choose another occupation.
Before she settled on murdering fictional people, she was a secretary, a schoolteacher, a pastor’s wife, and an amateur puppeteer. She lives in Western New York State (Go Bills!), where she enjoys cooking, crafts, classic movies and campy seventies television, board games, and spending time with her granddaughters.
Before teaming up with Jessica Fletcher, she previously wrote the Vintage Toyshop Mystery series and the Bridal Bouquet Shop Mysteries (as Beverly Allen).
About Jessica Fletcher
Jessica Fletcher (born Jessica Beatrice MacGill, and writes under the initialed J.B. Fletcher) is a fictional character from the US television series Murder, She Wrote.
In keeping with the spirit of the TV show, a series of official original novels have been written by American ghostwriter Donald Bain and published by the New American Library. The author credit for the novels is shared with the fictitious “Jessica Fletcher.” When the first novel in the series, Gin and Daggers, was published in 1989 it included several inaccuracies to the TV series including Jessica driving a car which she could not do as she never learned to drive. Due to fans pointing out the errors, the novel was republished in 2000 with most of the inaccuracies corrected.
Source: Wikipedia
Sounds like a wonderful read.