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In the brand-new novel in the USA Today bestselling series, Jessica Fletcher learns that some songs end on a fatal note. Jessica Fletcher knows that creativity must be nurtured. So when a young lady from Cabot Cove shows promise as a singer and songwriter, Jessica and a local citizens committee send Cyndi on a scholarship trip to Nashville, Tennessee, where she can benefit from professional instruction.Only weeks later, Cabot Cove is shocked to hear of the cold-blooded murder of a brash country music publisher-by the young talent Cyndi! And as Cyndi's mother begs Jessica to help her daughter, Jess heads to the country music capital of the world to help the wayward starlet.Jessica finds that the murdered man was no country gentleman, with a list of ex-wives, cheated partners, swindled singers, and stolen songs that has Jessica swinging to-and-fro in the search for a killer. And if she can't uncover the culprit soon, Jessica knows that poor Cyndi will never get the chance for an encore...
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interesting story
An interesting enough murder mystery which reads a lot like watching an episode of Murder, She Wrote. Dialog-driven, lots of matter-of-fact observations, etc. But no interesting, clever, original bits of writing. No insights into Jessica Fletcher via inner monologue or how she came to this point in her life, making for flat characters the reader never really gets to know well, or what their motivations are. Three stars for being entertaining if nothing else.
The set up is a little bit of a stretch, but I like the setting of Nashville and the characters we meet with Mrs. Granger and Mr. Washburn. I like that there wasn't a specific list of suspects. A couple appeared to be the leaders, but I wasn't sure who it was until the end because the answer wasn't totally straight forward. Not my favorite, but not the worst.
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28 primary booksMurder, She Wrote is a 28-book series with 28 primary works first released in 1989 with contributions by Jessica Fletcher, Donald Bain, and 6 others.