Jessica Fletcher: Murder at Magnolia House by buried truths

When bestselling mystery author Jessica Fletcher accepts an invitation to the elegant Magnolia House in Savannah, Georgia, she expects a peaceful weekend among writers. Instead, she walks straight into one of the most haunting investigations of her career.
The annual Southern Mystery Writers’ Ball is in full swing when arrogant thriller novelist Daniel Mercer collapses, dead from cyanide poisoning. The glass is clean, the decanter untouched, and the storm outside seals everyone inside the mansion. What begins as a simple whodunit soon unravels into something far darker — a secret buried for generations beneath the magnolia trees.
As Jessica works alongside Detective Ray Colson, she discovers that Daniel’s death is only the latest chapter in a family tragedy stretching back to the 1930s. Long before Magnolia House became a literary landmark, it was home to the Holloway and Cobb families — bound together by love, betrayal, and an unsolved disappearance. Every artifact in the mansion seems to whisper clues: an old portrait hiding missing pages, a rusted safe behind a bookshelf, a cellar that still reeks of chemicals, and a letter signed only “E.H.”
When the garden yields a buried skeleton, Jessica realizes the truth about Magnolia House is written not in ink, but in blood. The discovery leads to confessions, deceit, and a deadly inheritance that has poisoned the Holloways for decades — literally. Someone inside the house is willing to kill again to keep the past hidden.
From stormy Savannah nights to foggy riverside chases, Jessica follows a trail of journals, family letters, and half-told lies that reveal how the mansion’s founder, Edward Holloway, experimented with chemical “remedies” to erase guilt — a legacy that turned into generational sin. When another scholar, Dr. Phillip Nash, uses that same poison for modern blackmail, Jessica must race to stop history from repeating itself.
But even when Nash is captured, Jessica senses the story isn’t finished. The final twist comes in a hidden note left by the murdered writer himself — “There’s still one more name.” That last clue leads her to the housekeeper’s son, the weary groundskeeper, and finally to Grace Holloway, the mansion’s gracious but haunted hostess.
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