A journalist died before finishing his book trying to show a man was unjustly convicted of murder 16 years ago. Jessica is asked to use his notes to finish his book.
Madison is charged with illegally selling narcotics when it's discovered her prescription pads have been sold. Meanwhile, a medical student murders his pregnant girlfriend to marry the daughter of one of Mark's wealthy friends.
An old flame of Mark's asks for his help when her former lover is found dead and the police believe her husband killed him. Meanwhile, Jesse and Steve vie for the attention of the same woman.
A drug-addicted med student with a personal connection to Madison is suspected of murder after a patient in rehabilitation is found dead from an overdose in her bathroom.
Jessica Fletcher attends a lecture given by Cassandra Hawkins who is trying to clear the name of her ancestor Samuel Pinckney, a slave accused of killing a white plantation owner.
Jessica heads to Nashville to visit her old friends, Bobby and Patti Sue Diamond, and finds herself embroiled in the middle of a murder mystery when Bobby and Patti Sue are poisoned and Bobby's daughter is the prime suspect.
