因一桩离奇的猫脸人案件，实习女编导林琪和强迫症天才司徒彦结为了拍档，逗比小伙伴宋以朗的加入则让这对欢喜冤家的日常锦上添花。三人聚在一起做了一档推理探案节目《迷镜》，凭借敏锐的观察能力和精妙的逻辑思考，破解了一宗宗怪异难解的案件。同时，司徒彦也被直率可爱的林琪所吸引，两人在亦敌亦友的状态下共同成长着。然而，横亘在他们面前的是一段被封存的黑暗过去，是不得不揭开的血色伤口。
Season 5 finds Murder, She Wrote's intrepid Jessica Fletcher in fine sleuthing form, and venturing farther afield from Cabot Cove--a good thing, since at the rate the murders have been happening, that town would be nearly cleaned out. Some of the best episodes take place in more exotic locales like New York (dead man on the street, wearing just one shoe), Montana (a publishing convention gone horribly wrong) and West Virginia (two whistle-blowers at a coal company found gruesomely murdered). Angela Lansbury sparkles with determination and bonhomie, hitting her stride and then some. Jessica's own life backstory is even filled out tantalizingly, especially in the episode "The Last Flight of the Dixie Damsel," in which an investigation is launched into a mysterious cargo plane that is linked, she learns to her horror, to her late husband. The series' other delight is watching for cameos by stars of a certain age, and this season doesn't disappoint, with appearances by Roddy McDowall, Shelley Fabares, and Dinah Shore--but also some up-and-comers like Megan Mullally (proof positive that the Will & Grace whine was a put-on) and future satirist Bill Maher.
