Snowy with a Chance of Murder by Jessica Fletcher and Barbara Early

Item: Snowy with a Chance of Murder
Rating: 5
Author: karenbaron

Posted March 23, 2025 by karenbaron in Blog Tour, Contest - Giveaway, Mystery, Review, Series / 0 Comments

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Snowy with a Chance of Murder

by Jessica Fletcher, Barbara Early

Series: Murder She Wrote Mystery #60
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Published by Berkley Books on March 18, 2025
Setting: Cabot Cove, Maine
Genres: Cozy Mystery
Pages: 296
Format: Hardcover, Kindle
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Also in this series: Murder, She Wrote: Killing in a Koi Pond, Murder, She Wrote: Debonair in Death, Murder, She Wrote: Death on the Emerald Isle, Murder, She Wrote: Fit for Murder, Murder Backstage, A Killer Christmas

In a nod to Rear Window, this newest entry in the USA Today bestselling Murder, She Wrote series finds Jessica Fletcher coping with an injury that leaves her homebound—and a murder just outside her window!

Jessica Fletcher has taken a nasty spill on the ice, leaving her in a wheelchair for several weeks. She tries to work on her latest manuscript but finds herself distracted by a new neighbor moving in across the street. There’s good reason for her to be distracted, because soon after unpacking his sparse belongings, Mr. Rymer is out in the front yard, building somewhat risqué (read: naked) snow sculptures.

While Cabot Cove debates whether the sculptures are a protected form of art or a public display of lewdness, someone starts destroying them at night. Rymer doesn’t seem upset. He just makes new ones. No need to get the police involved over a little snow, he says. Especially when there’s plenty more of it and a blizzard in the forecast.

The morning after the storm, Jessica looks out the window to see a new sculpture across the street—and the body of Mr. Rymer half-buried in the snow. Can Jessica catch a cold-blooded killer from her chair by the window?

Snowy with a Chance of Murder by Jessica Fletcher and Barbara Early has Jessica Fletcher solving a case from her house.

Can Jessica solve the case?

Jessica Fletcher

Jessica Fletcher is excited about leaving cold, snowy Maine for a sunny cruise ship working vacation. Well, until she slips on some snow-covered ice and hurts herself enough, she must be put into an electric wheelchair to move around. Jessica dislikes this new development, but it all ends up okay because of her at-home aide that Seth found for her. She tries to work on her latest book while trying not to move as much, but once the new neighbor makes risque snow sculptures in his yard, Jessica wonders about him. I like Jessica and how, even stuck in her house, she can still solve a mystery, even if Mort is sad about that.

The Mystery

The next day, after a blizzard comes through Cabot Cove, Maine, Jessica watches as Floyd and one of her neighbors uncover the dead body of her new neighbor, Mr. Rymer, and Jessica doesn’t understand how he could have died. Jessica tries to help Mort solve this case as best as possible by using her brain since she can’t leave the house. Part of me wishes that how the mystery was solved wasn’t how it was solved since I feel bad for Jessica.

Five Stars

My rating for Snowy with a Chance of Murder by Jessica Fletcher and Barbara Early is five stars. I love how television show fans can still enjoy Jessica Fletcher through these books. New fans for this character can start reading this series from any book and not get too confused. Ms. Early is a new author of this series that she will be writing with Terrie Farley Moran, and I love how she did this book. I can’t wait to see what else Ms. Early and Jessica do together.

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About Barbara Early

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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