Jessica's orphaned former pupil Sybil Reed states on TV her debut novel 'Sins of Castle Cove' is based only geographically on Cabot Cove. However, townsfolk flock to buy it and react emotionally on their often ridiculous or vile counterparts with similar names. When Miriam Harwood is murdered with her own frying pan, even the sheriff arrests her husband whose counterpart killed her for adultery in a similar way, as Noah Harwood raged publicly against the suspect, butcher Tim Mulligan. Jessica insists on separating fact and fiction and finds the killer through a dissonance.
—KGF Vissers