Jessica's friend, who is a former jewel thief and a current insurance investigator, gets involved in a high-society murder that proves crime has no barriers.
Steve investigates the dealings at a local law firm after his night-school teacher has been nearly run down in the parking lot by an unidentified person.
A best-selling romance novelist's husband is murdered, and she is suspected of the crime until Laura and Steele find her spouse had been authoring the stories.
Laura is hired by the distraught brother of a Japanese man who was killed in a hit-and-run "accident," but upon investigation finds a connection to the Yakuza.
Remington accompanies Laura to a reunion for her former colleagues, but when one of them winds up dead, they ask the only outsider, Steele, to investigate.
Sam Gerald, a well know mobster, is on the verge of exposure when his estranged son is arrested for murder, but he appeals to Matlock for help instead.
When the town sheriff is murdered in the middle of an election, Hannah, the bakery owner, joins forces with her love-struck dentist to clear her brother-in-law.
While trying to break out of prison, a man is killed and his daughter sues Jessica for his death and for providing false testimony that landed him in jail.
A journalist who is nearing death wants Jessica to finish his book, which would vindicate a man unjustly convicted of murdering his heiress wife 16 years prior.