Matlock devises a complicated legal maneuver in order to get his client to confess to murdering an author whose book tainted a political family's image.
Matlock agrees to defend a Santa impersonator accused of murdering his wife, but when the judge refuses to set bail, the attorney ends up with a houseguest.
A wife is accused of murdering an aerobics instructor at Pinewood Spa who slept with her husband, but Matlock discovers the real reason behind the murder.
After a bride-to-be is murdered, her fiancé becomes the prime suspect, Angie Dove works to prove her client's innocence, much to the dismay of Detective Cooper.
Angie Dove gets Det. Carter's attention by stumbling on a murder at an art museum, but Angie's father tries to solve a series of petty thefts at the museum.
A cryptic call about a planned jewelry heist draws a Detroit Free Press tipline operator into a dangerous homicide case alongside a newly promoted detective.
When an amateur sleuth and her dog stumble upon an old crime scene, the K9 trainer, her star pup and ex-boyfriend & detective are thrown into the investigation.
The townspeople in Cabot Cove are concerned about a massive land development project on the shore; her nephew is among the first employed in the company.
A vicious battle takes place for the role as headmaster in a local prep school where Jessica Fletcher is to give a lecture; the new headmaster is found dead.
Jessica Fletcher must uncover the link between numerous break-ins in New York and the murder of a sleazy aspiring entrepreneur whose body is found in a salon.