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About Murder, She Wrote: Murder Most Trivial
Murder, She Wrote: Murder Most Trivial
Cozy Mystery
63rd in Series
Setting – Starts in Cabot Cove, Maine, but most of it takes place in and around Los Angeles.
Publisher : Berkley
Publication date : May 12, 2026
The newest delightful entry in the USA Today bestselling Murder, She Wrote series, featuring mystery novelist Jessica Fletcher.
Jessica Fletcher and friends Seth Hazlitt and Maureen and Mort Metzger team up for pub trivia and crush the competition, then are stunned to learn that the prize is a chance to appear in a five-day trivia tournament filming in LA.
No one expects life-or-death stakes! But on day one of the tournament, a crew member is murdered. Who would benefit from derailing the show? Jessica has to come up with the ultimate answer.
In a metafictional twist, the investigation takes Jessica and the gang to the filming locations of their favorite mystery shows, where they discuss how Columbo, Monk, or Jim Rockford might go about solving the case.
My Review
I loved so many things about this installment of the Murder She Wrote Series. Jessica, Seth, Mort and Maureen win a spot in a trivia game show in Los Angeles, and we readers get to go back stage. They tour LA with Jessica’s actor-nephew, Howard, and visit landmarks along with references to famous detective shows like Dragnet, Rockford Files and Monk. I also loved Howard’s story with his wife Victoria. The mystery is well done, and even though Jessica is outside of Cabot Cove, having Seth, Mort and Maureen along give it that great Murder She Wrote dynamic. The trivia questions about the seven dwarfs were so fun, I found myself playing along. If you love Jessica Fletcher, you’ll love Murder Most Trivial.
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About the Authors
Jessica Fletcheris a bestselling mystery writer who has a knack for stumbling upon real-life mysteries in her various travels. Barbara Early coauthors this volume.
Barbara Early earned an engineering degree, but after four years of doing nothing but math, developed a sudden allergy to the subject and decided to choose another occupation.
Before she settled on murdering fictional people, she was a secretary, a schoolteacher, a pastor’s wife, and an amateur puppeteer. She lives in Western New York State (Go Bills!), where she enjoys cooking, crafts, classic movies and campy seventies television, board games, and spending time with her granddaughters.
Before teaming up with Jessica Fletcher, she previously wrote the Vintage Toyshop Mystery series and the Bridal Bouquet Shop Mysteries (as Beverly Allen).
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