Terrie Moran

It''s leaf-peeping season in Cabot Cove, but for someone, it''s killing season! A quartet of friends from Florida have come to Maine to experience a New England autumn, complete with hiking in the woods and fishing. When one of them goes missing, the town rallies to find the presumably lost but otherwise safe tourist. But when newspaper editor Dan Andrews is biking on the trail along a ridge, he looks down and sees a leg caught in the branches of a tree. Count on Jessica Fletcher to uncover the secret reason the victim came to town... and how it led to her murder.

Invited to deliver a lecture at the Boston Public Library, Jessica Fletcher excitedly makes plans to see local friends. Naturally that includes dinner at Gilhooley''s with PI Harry McGraw. Harry excitedly talks about his latest client, the CEO of Cure All Pharmaceuticals, who''s received anonymous blackmail demands and wants Harry to identify the culprit. Cookie, Gilhooley''s longtime bartender, also has something he wants to tell Jessica: Hae asked Harry to investigate his daughter Aileen''s boyfriend, whom Cookie thinks is too slick by half, but now Harry is too wrapped up in this new case. While Jessica wonders how best to approach Aileen, the young woman stumbles into Gilhooley''s covered in blood. She just discovered her boyfriend''s corpse - and quickly becomes the chief suspect in his murder!