Murder, She Wrote: Death of a Blue Blood

Jessica Fletcher is invited to ring in the New Year with British aristocracy. Too bad someone s about to end the life of the party....

Jessica Fletcher and her friend Scotland Yard detective inspector George Sutherland are invited to attend a New Year s Eve Ball at Castorbrook Castle, thanks to her British publisher. Shortly after arriving in the idyllic English countryside, Jessica discovers the body of a lady s maid in the garden.

While their host, Lord Norrance, his snobbish third wife, other members of the household, and party guests squabble over the tragic death in tight-lipped, perfectly mannered, thoroughly British style, family relations are strained as old wounds are reopened and cutting remarks are freely handed out. And that s only during teatime

As midnight beckons at the ball the next night, the earl offers a toast, complete with fireworks. But the merriment crashes to a halt when he falls ill and dies, apparently poisoned and the number of suspects with a grudge against the lord of the manor sprouts like English ivy.

Now it s up to Jessica and George to find the killer or killers before another corpse welcomes in the New Year....