Book Review and Giveaway - Murder, She Wrote: A Body in Boston by Jessica Fletcher and Terrie Farley Moran

My Review

Jessica Fletcher travels to Boston with her friend Seth Hazlitt.  She is a guest lecturer at the Boston Public Library and he visits with an old friend in the medical field.  While they are in Boston, they meet with local friends at a familiar pub.  The bartender, Cookie, enlists Jessica's help to talk to his daughter Aileen about her ill-advised romance.  Before Jessica can have that talk, Aileen finds her boyfriend dead - and she is the prime suspect.  Jessica steps in to help solve the mystery.

I wanted to read Murder She Wrote: A Body in Boston because I love this series of books. (I love the TV series too - a comfort watch for me!).  I look forward to each new book in the series and try to keep up with them.

This was a very good mystery.  It starts at a leisurely pace, as Jessica and Seth explore Boston.  I enjoyed their trip to the Boston Tea Party Museum and the little historical facts woven into the storytelling!  Then the murder occurs and the mystery truly begins.

As always, the mystery aspect of the book is very well written, with several plausible suspects and Jessica doing smart sleuthing to solve the mystery.  The Boston locale added an interesting setting for the story.

I recommend Murder She Wrote: A Body in Boston and the whole series for fans of cozy mysteries.  This is one of my favorite series and I am sure other mystery readers will enjoy it as well!

Book Synopsis

Jessica Fletcher has dinner with her old pal Harry McGraw and gets pulled into a puzzling murder case.

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: he asked Harry to investigate his daughter Aileen’s boyfriend, who 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!

Author Bio

Terrie Farley Moran is the bestselling author of the Read ‘Em and Eat cozy mystery series, including the Agatha Award-winning Well Read, Then Dead. Along with Jessica Fletcher, she co-writes the Murder She Wrote mystery series. She also co-writes the Scrapbooking Mysteries with Laura Childs. Terrie’s short mystery fiction has been published in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, Mystery Weekly, and numerous anthologies. “A Killing at the Beausoleil” was nominated for an Agatha Award for Best Short Story. “Inquiry and Assistance” received the Derringer Award for Best Novelette.

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