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Murder, She Wrote: Murder Most Trivial by Jessica Fletcher and Barbara Early
Murder, She Wrote: Murder Most Trivial
Cozy Mystery
63rd in Series
Setting – Starts in Cabot Cove, Maine, but most of it takes place in and around Los Angeles.
Publisher : Berkley
Publication date : May 12, 2026
Print length : 320 pages
Hardcover
The newest delightful entry in the USA Today bestselling Murder, She Wrote series, featuring mystery novelist Jessica Fletcher.
Jessica Fletcher and friends Seth Hazlitt and Maureen and Mort Metzger team up for pub trivia and crush the competition, then are stunned to learn that the prize is a chance to appear in a five-day trivia tournament filming in LA.
No one expects life-or-death stakes! But on day one of the tournament, a crew member is murdered. Who would benefit from derailing the show? Jessica has to come up with the ultimate answer.
In a metafictional twist, the investigation takes Jessica and the gang to the filming locations of their favorite mystery shows, where they discuss how Columbo, Monk, or Jim Rockford might go about solving the case.
My review of Murder Most Trivial
By winning the first official trivia night in Cabot Cove’s brand new Irish pub, Jessica, Doc (Seth) Hazlitt, Mort and Maureen Metzger win a chance to be on a new live-ish game show where the contestants compete on national television. They’ve got to pay their own way, but the group decides it’ll be fun and heads to Los Angeles, California for a week.
There’s so much to love about this book! Jessica’s niece and nephew offer the group a place to stay in their “new” home that they’re renovating into a B&B. The house is old Hollywood with the emphasis on old and is a mishmash of styles. It’s also still occupied by the previous resident. Nope. Not a ghost. This 100 year old former actress knocks $100,000 off of the price if she and her staff of 3 aspiring actors can stay until she passes away. I’d probably do it. I mean, that’s a fair chunk of money that they can put into fixing up the house. It’s gonna take a lot more than that. I could picture certain aspects of the house so well because the authors give detailed descriptions.
As always, I love the Cabot Cove regulars and reading about them feels like a warm hug. The additional characters were well-written and believable. I felt like I was right there with them as Jessica and her friends participated in the trivia show and as they were driven around by her nephew to visit some lesser well-known restaurants. These places were used in movies and TV and had delicious food to boot! I really enjoyed this part of the book! I recognized almost all of the shows mentioned and thought it would be really fun to eat at those restaurants…as long as I was chauffeured around and didn’t have to drive or find parking!
The mystery is carefully plotted with just enough clues to get you on the right track. I’ll admit that it did take me a long time before I was able to figure out any motives. Having “worked” with him before, Jessica knew the lieutenant who was assigned to the murder case, and he was happy to have her help finding any clues. She and her friends are able to provide a lot of insight since they’re with them during filming.
As usual, I loved this Murder She Wrote book! Having grown up with the show, it always brings back good memories when I get to spend time with these characters. I highly recommend Murder Most Trivial for its setting, premise, characters, and well-plotted mystery! 5 stars!
I voluntarily reviewed a complimentary copy of this book. All views expressed are only my honest opinion.
About the Authors
Jessica Fletcher is a bestselling mystery writer who has a knack for stumbling upon real-life mysteries in her various travels. Barbara Early coauthors this volume.
Barbara Early earned an engineering degree, but after four years of doing nothing but math, developed a sudden allergy to the subject and decided to choose another occupation.
Before she settled on murdering fictional people, she was a secretary, a schoolteacher, a pastor’s wife, and an amateur puppeteer. She lives in Western New York State (Go Bills!), where she enjoys cooking, crafts, classic movies and campy seventies television, board games, and spending time with her granddaughters.
Before teaming up with Jessica Fletcher, she previously wrote the Vintage Toyshop Mystery series and the Bridal Bouquet Shop Mysteries (as Beverly Allen).
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Murder Most Trivial TOUR PARTICIPANTS
May 8 – Books, Ramblings, and Tea – SPOTLIGHT
May 8 – Sarandipity’s – AUTHOR INTERVIEW
May 9 – Jody’s Bookish Haven – SPOTLIGHT
May 10 – Books1987 – SPOTLIGHT
May 11 – Christy’s Cozy Corners – REVIEW
May 11 – Sapphyria’s Book Reviews – SPOTLIGHT
May 12 – Cozy Up With Kathy – REVIEW
May 13 – Escape With Dollycas Into A Good Book – REVIEW
May 13 – Island Confidential – SPOTLIGHT
May 14 – Diane Reviews Books – REVIEW
May 14 – Salty Inspirations -AUTHOR GUEST POST
May 15 – View from the Birdhouse – REVIEW
May 15 – Books to the Ceiling – REVIEW*
May 16 – Reading Is My SuperPower – REVIEW
May 17 – Boys’ Mom Reads! -SPOTLIGHT
May 18 – Caboodle of Cozies – CHARACTER GUEST POST
May 18 – Socrates Book Reviews – SPOTLIGHT
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