Joyce Cato

The Vicarage Murder

An Unholy Shame

The Flower Show Murder

The Teatime Mystery

When travelling cook Jenny Starling is asked to cater the tea for a village cricket match, the last thing she expects is to be faced with the murder of one of the players. Tristan Jones was a bit of a ladies man, but the slick city financier had lost a lot of people their savings and investments, so it is safe to say the list of suspects is a long one, and the local police find themselves operating on a sticky wicket. But when another body is found, it looks as though even the canny cook might be caught out for a duck. Fielding clues and red herrings isn't easy, especially when suspect statements seem to stump everyone else involved with the investigation. Jenny must choose her next strokes very carefully, with the field around her becoming smaller, it's only matter of time before she is caught out. With an angry teenager, a cuckolded cricket captain, and even the victim's own stepmother on the suspect list, it's going to take some fast deliveries by the amateur sleuth to crack the case and find the killer. One thing is for certain, though, killing two people in such an unsportsmanlike manner is just not cricket.

Just not cricket

Spending Christmas in a snowed-in country farmhouse cooking all the traditional seasonal food she loves sounds like a dream come true for travelling cook, Jenny Starling. Except that the family she is cooking for are hardly full of the Christmas spirit.

A Fatal Fall of Snow

When travelling cook Jenny Starling is asked to cater a birthday party for a pair of well-heeled twins, she doesn't expect to find herself in the midst of a shocking murder.

a travelling cook mystery

Birthdays can be murder

Hired to cater the birthday party of wealthy twins Alicia and Justin Greer, chef Jenny Sterling finds herself investigating murder with an ample lists of suspects after a champagne toast leaves Justin dead and his sister clinging to life.

Birthdays Can be Murder

In the small Cotswold village of Heyford Bassett, vicar's wife Monica Noble throws a party for the village's new residents. The guests include Margaret Franklyn and her philandering husband Sean, a celebrity chef and her cartoonist beau, a retired Oxford Don with a secret, a forty-something divorcee, and the owner of a chain of gyms. A shotgun blast heralds the discovery of Margaret Franklyn's body, terrifying the community on whom, inevitably, suspicion falls. Who to blame? The husband? Monica's daughter who had been accused of stealing from the deceased? Monica swings into action with the local DI to save her daughter and solve the crime.

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