Book Review and Giveaway - Murder, She Wrote: Murder Most Trivial by Jessica Fletcher and Barbara Early

My Review

Jessica Fletcher travels to Los Angeles with her friends Seth Hazlitt and Maureen and Mort Metzger to compete in a new pub trivia show on television.  They are having fun staying with her niece and nephew in an interesting but spooky old Hollywood home and eating out at old Hollywood spots.  Then a crew member is murdered and Jessica works, with her friends, to solve the mystery.  

I wanted to read Murder, She Wrote: Murder Most Trivial because I love Murder, She Wrote - both the TV series and the book series.  I try to read all the books as they are published.

I usually prefer the Cabot Cove setting but I absolutely loved reading about Jessica's adventures in Los Angeles with her old friends.  There were several interesting layers to this book:  the mystery itself, the spooky old mansion they are staying in, and references to favorite TV detectives, including Monk and Columbo.

This was a fun and fast-paced read.  The mystery is well plotted and intriguing.  I enjoyed sleuthing along with Jessica.

I thoroughly enjoyed Murder, She Wrote: Murder Most Trivial and am sure that other cozy mystery fans will enjoy it too.  It is one of my favorite books in this series.

Book Synopsis

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.

Author Bios

Jessica Fletcher is 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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