num_pages: 275
description: Jessica Fletcher must catch an artistic killer in this entry in the "USA Today" bestselling "Murder, She Wrote" series.Cabot Cove in Maine has a cozy country luncheonette, but not much high culture. Mystery author Jessica Fletcher is the only writer in town, but the renovation of the local Worrell mansion into an art colony may bring scores of artistic people to C.C. No one, however, expected a creative killer.The posh retreat offers struggling artists a European spa, psychiatry, and even hypnotism. But soon the retreat begins to look like a health hazard. In quick succession, a suicide attempt and a brutal murder arouse the sheriff's attention--and Jessica's. When an old friend mysteriously disappears, Jessica fears a twisted genius is at work writing a scenario for murder-- and putting Jessica's own life in peril.Librarian's note #1: the first 15 books in the current Jessica Fletcher / Donald Bain "Murder She Wrote" series are #1, Gin &amp; Daggers (1989) with a 2nd edition in (2000); #2, Manhattans &amp; Murder (1994); #3, Rum &amp; Razors (1995); #4, Brandy &amp; Bullets (1995); #5, Martinis &amp; Mayhem (1995); #6, A Deadly Judgment (1996); #7, A Palette for Murder (1996); #8, The Highland Fling Murders (1997); #9, Murder on the QE2 (1997); #10, Murder in Moscow (1998); #11, A Little Yuletide Murder (1998); #12, Murder at the Powderhorn Ranch (1999); #13, Knock 'Em Dead (1999); #14, Trick or Treachery (2000); and #15, Blood on the Vine (2001).Librarian's note #2: there is an earlier MSW series by James Anderson and David Deutsch. Novelizations of TV episodes. This original series has 4 volumes: #1, The Murder of Sherlock Holmes (1985); #2, Hooray for Homicide (1985); #3, Lovers and Other Killers (1986); and #4, Murder in Two Acts (1986).
language: English
title: Brandy & Bullets
titlecomplete: Brandy & Bullets (Murder, She Wrote, #4)
characters: Audrey Black, Myron with Maine Power & Light, Dr. Donald Fechter, Barbara McCoy and Jo Jo Masarowski, Jake Monroe (Brandy & Bullets), Arthur Goldberg (Brandy & Bullets), Seth Hazlitt, Maureen Beaumont, Jared Worrell, Susan Dalton, Dr. Tomar Meti, Sybil Stewart, Mort Metzger, Alexis Peterson, Norman Huffaker, Carson James, Sue Maehart, Beth Anne Portledge, Dr. Michael O'Neill, Cynthia Syms, Jill Huffaker, Jessica Fletcher, Doc Johansen, Matilda Watson, George Sutherland (Gin and Daggers), Mara (Brandy & Bullets)
genres: Crime, Media Tie In, Tv, Mystery Thriller, Death, Fiction, Cozy Mystery, Mystery
ratings_count: 1316
places: Boston, Massachusetts, Cabot Cove, Maine
series: Murder, She Wrote
publisher: Berkley Books