The producer of a hit TV show called "Buds" featuring an ensemble cast is about to kill off one of the characters when she is found dead in her office.
Jessica is booked for a seminar in Australia when she gets word that she may have claim to an inheritance in the area--land used for sheep grazing. The natives are not at all happy with this.
When a best-selling mystery author comes down with writer's block, she commits a murder herself in the hopes of stimulating her creative juices. The delusional author has help from her fictional heroine, Danielle Slade.
Amanda enlists Jesse's computer-nerd friends to find a killer, after she accidentally surfs across an online murder. Meanwhile, Jesse's girlfriend, Susan, comes down with a case of food poisoning after dining at Barbecue Bob's.
A British ambassador is accused of murdering his lover's husband, but rather than hiding behind diplomatic immunity, his New York attorney sends for Matlock to negotiate a solution.
Matlock reluctantly agrees to try to keep Michelle's caustic deejay friend from facing the music when he's accused of canceling a rival jock's show, permanently.
Matlock does the investigating when his friend, a burned-out police captain, constructs an elaborate frame to escape a young cop's accusations of murder.
A distraught man (Mitchell Laurance) takes Matlock's friends hostage and, while they wait for his return, Michelle, Julie and Tyler try to dissuade the gunman with tales of Ben's sly detective work and courtroom heroics.
Claire finds herself defending a woman already convicted of murder, while Miles questions his role as prosecuting attorney and helps her on the case. Stars Kimberly Williams-Paisley, Tom Cavanagh, Wendie Malick.
Genealogist Sophie McClaren is an expert at bringing families together. When her close friend JONATHAN urgently needs to find a bone marrow donor, the case becomes personal. Stars Janel Parrish and Niall Matter.
