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Book Details
Murder, She Wrote: Murder Most Trivial
Cozy Mystery
63rd in Series
Setting – Starts in Cabot Cove, Maine, but most of it takes place in and around Los Angeles.
Publisher : Berkley
Publication date : May 12, 2026
Print length : 320 pages
Hardcover
ISBN-10 : 0593952901
ISBN-13 : 978-0593952900
Digital
ISBN-13 : 978-0593952924
ASIN : B0FM7785KS
The newest delightful entry in the USA Today bestselling Murder, She Wrote series, featuring mystery novelist Jessica Fletcher.
Jessica Fletcher and friends Seth Hazlitt and Maureen and Mort Metzger team up for pub trivia and crush the competition, then are stunned to learn that the prize is a chance to appear in a five-day trivia tournament filming in LA.
No one expects life-or-death stakes! But on day one of the tournament, a crew member is murdered. Who would benefit from derailing the show? Jessica has to come up with the ultimate answer.
In a metafictional twist, the investigation takes Jessica and the gang to the filming locations of their favorite mystery shows, where they discuss how Columbo, Monk, or Jim Rockford might go about solving the case.
About the Authors
Jessica Fletcher is a bestselling mystery writer who has a knack for stumbling upon real-life mysteries in her various travels. Barbara Early coauthors this volume.
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).
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TOUR PARTICIPANTS
May 8 – Books, Ramblings, and Tea – SPOTLIGHT
May 8 – Sarandipity’s – AUTHOR INTERVIEW
May 9 – Jody’s Bookish Haven – SPOTLIGHT
May 10 – Books1987 – SPOTLIGHT
May 11 – Christy’s Cozy Corners – REVIEW
May 11 – Sapphyria’s Book Reviews – SPOTLIGHT
May 12 – Cozy Up With Kathy – REVIEW
May 13 – Escape With Dollycas Into A Good Book – REVIEW
May 13 – Island Confidential – SPOTLIGHT
May 14 – Diane Reviews Books – REVIEW
May 14 – Salty Inspirations -AUTHOR GUEST POST
May 15 – View from the Birdhouse – REVIEW
May 15 – Books to the Ceiling – REVIEW*
May 16 – Reading Is My SuperPower – REVIEW
May 17 – Boys’ Mom Reads! -SPOTLIGHT
May 18 – Caboodle of Cozies – CHARACTER GUEST POST
May 18 – Socrates Book Reviews – SPOTLIGHT
Author Interview
What is your favorite part of this book and why?
Writing this book was fun, and my favorite parts might be when Jessica Fletcher and her friends review the case they’re working on in light of how their favorite television detectives might investigate. And perhaps my favorite among those is when they have dinner at a beachfront restaurant in Malibu which also happened to be where Jim Rockford’s trailer was located. I finished that scene feeling as if I had just returned from a pleasant vacation.
If you could spend time with a character from your book whom would it be? And what would you do during that day?
I’ve come to love so many of these characters, but I would have to say Jessica Fletcher. I hope what we’d do was trade notes on mystery writing, but knowing her, someone would die, and we’d probably end up
investigating…
What books/authors have most inspired you?
This changes all the time with me. So often, when asked about my favorite books and writers, it’s the ones I most recently read. Right now, my oldest grandchild is reading Nancy Drew, so the stable of writers who wrote under the name Carolyn Keene come to mind. They inspired several generations of female amateur sleuths. Also Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple teaches us that age imposes no limit. So many others…
Are your characters based off real people or did they all come entirely from your imagination?
I wish I could say they came from my imagination, but the fun part of writing Murder, She Wrote is that I get to continue the stories about Jessica Fletcher and all those other wonderfully drawn fictional characters who came from the imagination of others.
What made you want to become a writer?
I came to writing later, and it didn’t start as an aspiration, but rather a hobby that became more serious the more time and effort I poured into it. Eventually, I challenged myself to see how far it would take me. I’m still on that grand adventure!
