Snowy with a Chance of Murder by Jessica Fletcher and Barbara Early

 Snowy with a Chance of Murder by Jessica Fletcher and Barbara Early - 296 pages

If you are a fan of the Murder She Wrote books and TV show, this book will immerse you right back into Cabot Cove.  Jessica finds herself laid up in a wheel chair after a nasty slip on some ice.  Dr. Seth Hazlitt has recommended an in-home aid to help Jessica while she mends. Jessica becomes very fond of her aid Alice, but is there more to this aid than she knows.

Jessica's plans to work on her new book get sidelined by a new renter that has moved in across the street. He has begun to build risque snow sculptures that have the neighbors in an uproar.  As Cabot Cove debates as to whether these sculptures are protected art, someone begins to destroy them.  Jessica and Alice spend most of their evening time spying out the window in the dark to see if they can catch the culprit, but one morning they see the renter Mr Rymer's half-buried body lying in the snow.  Sheriff Metzger enlists Jessica to help in solving this murder.

Murder She Wrote Aloha Betrayed by Jessica Fletcher & Donald Bain

Murder She Wrote Aloha Betrayed by Jessica Fletcher & Donald Bain - 424 pages

Jessica is on the Hawaiian island of Maui, giving a lecture at Maui College on community involvement in police investigations—a subject she knows well. Her co-lecturer is legendary retired detective Mike Kane, a behemoth of a man who shares his love of Hawaiian lore, legends and culture with Jessica.

Sadly, all the talking stops when the body of a colleague is found at the rocky foot of a cliff.

Mala Kapule was a botanist and popular professor at the school, known for her activism and efforts on behalf of the volcanic crater Haleakala. The high altitude crater is already the site of an observatory, but plans to place the world’s largest solar telescope there split the locals, with Mala fiercely arguing to preserve the delicate ecology of the area. Was someone trying to muffle the protestors? Or was Mala’s killer making a more personal statement?

Now, it’s up to Jessica, along with Mike, to uncover who was driven to silence the scientist…and betray the true meaning of Aloha.