Jessica Fletcher, Author, Donald Bain, Author NAL/Obsidian $22.95 (276p) ISBN 978-0-451-22603-7
Where Jessica Fletcher goes, murder invariably follows, as shown in Bain's taut 31st mystery to feature the crime-solving character immortalized by Angela Lansbury on the small screen (after 2008's A Slaying in Savannah
). While visiting...
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Jessica Fletcher, Author, Donald Bain, Author, Peter S. Fischer, Based on a TV Series . NAL/Obsidian $21.95 (295p) ISBN 978-0-451-22505-4
In Bain's 30th mystery based on the classic TV series Murder She Wrote
(after Murder on Parade
), Jessica Fletcher, Cabot Cove's crime-solving novelist, stands to inherit $1 million from the estate of her late friend, 91-year-old Tillie...
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Donald Bain. Forge, $25.99 (368p) ISBN 978-0-7653-3564-7
In Bain's pedestrian third Capital Crimes novel (after 2014's Margaret Truman's Undiplomatic Murder), Washington, D.C., PI Robert Brixton looks into the disappearance of Laura Bennett, an attractive, ambitious 22-year-old intern, who was working for
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Donald Bain. Forge, $25.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-7653-7988-7
In Bain’s by-the-numbers fourth Capital Crimes novel (after 2015’s Margaret Truman’s Internship in Murder), Jayla King receives news of her father’s murder in Papua New Guinea while trying on a dress in series regular Flo Clombe’s D.C. clothing...
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Donald Bain, Author . Barricade $22.95 (239p) ISBN 978-1-56980-240-3
The author or coauthor of more than 80 books in a variety of genres, Bain is still not a household name. In this engaging look at his writing career, Bain introduces readers to the fast-paced life of a ghostwriter—a career that requires taking
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Donald Bain. Severn, $27.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8358-2
Fans of Donald Westlake and Elmore Leonard will enjoy this bright caper novel from ghostwriter Bain (Close-up on Murder and dozens of other Murder, She Wrote/Jessica Fletcher mysteries). Straight-arrow Carlton Smythe, a 53-year-old engineer, has...
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Donald Bain, Author, Jessica Fletcher, Author . New American Library $19.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-451-21048-7
At the invitation of Cabot Cove denizen Reggie Weems, TV's Jessica Fletcher takes a murderous jaunt by rail through British Columbia in the 20th competently constructed "collaboration" between her and real-life mystery writer Bain. Not...
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Donald Bain. Forge, $24.99 (352p) ISBN 978-0-7653-2610-2
Bain (Trouble at High Tide and 36 other Murder She Wrote mysteries) channels the late Margaret Truman in the 26th Capital Crimes novel (after 2011’s Monument to Murder). The hit-and-run death in Washington, D.C., of psychiatrist Mark Sedgwick is the
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Jessica Fletcher, Donald Bain, and Jon Land. Berkley Prime Crime, $24 (304p) ISBN 978-0-451-48927-2
The well-plotted 47th series entry (after 2016’s Hook, Line and Murder) shows that Land (Strong to the Bone and eight other Caitlin Strong novels) is a worthy successor to Bain (1935–2017), the author of all the previous Murder, She Wrote mysteries...
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