Grady Ambrose Fletcher, Jessica Fletcher's nephew, is a recurring character on "Murder, She Wrote". Specifically, Grady was the son of Frank Fletcher's late brother. It was Grady who, after secretly reading Jessica's first novel The Corpse Danced at Midnight, had it published. Although Jessica seems to have a never-ending collection of nieces and nephews, it is Grady that could be easily considered the closest thing she has to a son. In the series viewers learn that Grady was raised in part by Jessica and her husband Frank, after Grady's parents were killed in a car accident.