Jessica lives in the proverbial idyllic seaside town Cabot Cove in Maine, where everyone knows everyone else or at least everyone knows Jessica. The characteristics of the series, which make it my comfort readġ. A chance encounter of few “Murder She Wrote” series books in used book stalls got me hooked to these books as my comfort read. Although I have always wanted to watch the whole series, unfortunately have watched only few episodes. This show is American counterpart of British cozy murder mysteries. The actress Angela Lansbury became a household name playing Jessica Fletcher.

It follows a retired English teacher turned bestselling murder mystery writer Jessica Fletcher as she solves one after another murder.

“Murder, She Wrote” is one of the longest running TV series. I highly recommend this novel.Gin and Daggers is a book in “Murder, She Wrote” series. It was nice to read how Jessica and George met. I also thought there was a nice theme throughout the conference portions of the novel pondering how literary mystery novels could be, or is it all just popular fiction? My own take is that I do believe they can be literary fiction. Jessica’s good friends, Seth and Mort, showed up in London to assist her. There were questions if Marjorie was in fact the author of her recent novel Gin & Daggers. There was a clever red herring/misdirection.

He also knows of her reputation in solving some cases in her hometown of Cabot Cove. He does not seem to take her seriously as a suspect because he takes her out to dinner numerous times. This is how she meets her long-distance romantic interest, Inspector George Sutherland of Scotland Yard. Jessica is deemed the prime suspect (especially after she inherits some money from Marjorie’s will). In the middle of the night, after the dinner, she finds Marjorie dead in her bedroom with a knife sticking out of her chest. Jessica is invited to her estate, along with a group of friends in the publishing world. Before the conference, she visits Marjorie Ainsworth, who is considered the grand dame of mystery writers. Jessica is invited to a mystery writer’s conference in London, England. (My reason for this is documented in my review for Book 2). As I explained in a previous post, I was confused on what novel was Book One in the Murder, She Wrote mystery series.

Gin and daggers