Murder, She Wrote: A Time for Murder

Authors: Fletcher, Jessica & Land, Jon
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
BISAC/Subject: FIC022040, FIC021000, FIC022100
ISBN: 9781984804327, Related ISBNs: 1984804308, 1984804316, 1984804324, 9781984804303, 9781984804310
Classification: Fiction
Number of pages: 304,
Audience: General/trade
Synopsis: In the fiftieth entry in this USA Today bestselling series, two timelines converge as Jessica Fletcher returns to high school to investigate the murder of an old colleague, while we meet Jessica as a young teacher solving her very first murder...

Young Jessica Fletcher's life couldn't be more ordinary. She teaches at the local high school while she and her loving husband, Frank, are raising their nephew Grady together. But when the beloved principal dies under mysterious circumstances, Jessica knows something is off and, for the very first time, investigates a death.

Present-day Jessica returns to high school for a colleague's retirement party and has fun seeing familiar faces. That is, until the colleague winds up dead--and his death has mysterious links to Jessica's very first murder case. 

With nothing but her own instincts to guide her, Jessica embarks on a quest to find out what really happened all those years ago and who's behind these murders. Because time is running out to catch this killer....
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