Episode 133: Lone Witness (S9, E19)

Jessica helps solve a murder when the only witness, a local delivery boy she has befriended, becomes the prime suspect.

An actress neighbor involves Jessica in her husband's murder.

A ventriloquist proves that he's no dummy in a murder case where his favorite doll and the body of his tyrannical boss are found in the same room.

Jake Ballinger, a Los Angeles homicide detective and friend of Jessica's, finds himself immersed in a case that may cost him his career.

Cabot Cove feels a bit like Old Salem when Jessica investigates the story of a supposed witch who has been dead for three hundred years - or has she?

It's lights, cameras, action when Jessica realizes that the plot for her new book has been stolen for use on a TV show - whose producer turns up murdered.

Dirty politics come to light when Jessica investigates the murder of a well-respected mayor.  When the mayor's father also winds up dead, Jessica takes a hard look at the political funding machine and finds the corruption extends to several branches of public office.

Jessica is spending her holidays with an old friend, Lloyd Marcus.  His daughter is found murdered in her house and her husband Donald becomes the prime suspect.

It's a bitter pill for Jessica to swallow when she's forced to stay at the hospital and her doctor is murdered.

When a traditional Japanese marriage contract is broken after the fiance is killed by a masked assailant, Jessica must decipher a politically charged love triangle in order to find the culprit.