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Overview: In her late twenties, Jenny Starling is an impressive woman. Physically, she stands at 6ft 1inch, and has shoulder-length black hair and blue eyes. Curvaceous and sexy, she’s a modern single woman, living the lifestyle that suits her — that of a travelling cook. Her famous (and now very rich) father, is a ‘celebrity’ cook, divorced from Jenny’s mother. Jenny drives a disreputable cherry-red van, and is happy travelling the country catering events and cooking great food. She is on a one-woman mission to bring back ‘real’ food. She finds crime very distracting, especially when there is chocolate to temper or pike to poach. Nevertheless, she is adept at reading people, and with a quick and agile brain, becomes very good at unmasking killers. And her always-undaunted sense of humour goes a long way in keeping her sane when all around her people are dropping like flies.
Genre: Fiction > Mystery/Thriller Cozy
The Birthday Mystery (#1)
Meet Jenny Starling: travelling cook and reluctant amateur sleuth.
Jenny Starling is catering the twenty-first birthday party of upper-class twins, Alicia and Justin.
Jenny arrives at their parents’ stunning country house and is immediately met by the police. A young man has drowned in the pond. Was it an accident . . . or murder?
But the birthday party must go ahead. Just after midnight, everyone gathers for a champagne toast — and one of the guests falls down dead. Everyone at the party becomes a suspect — and the police are completely baffled.
When someone adds an extra ingredient of poison to Jenny’s precious recipes, she will stop at nothing to find the culprit.
Jenny Starling must unmask a ruthless killer before more party guests die.
Please note this book was first published as Birthdays Can Be Murder under Faith Martin’s pen name Joyce Cato.
The Winter Mystery (#2)
Jenny Starling is spending Christmas in a snowed-in Cotswolds country house cooking all the traditional food she loves. But the family she’s working for are not full of the seasonal spirit. In fact, they seem to hate each other.
On Christmas Eve, someone is found dead on the kitchen table. And the head of the family is blaming Jenny!
But with an incompetent detective called in, and seemingly no motive for the murder, Jenny will have to put aside the brandy butter and give the police a hand.
Jenny will stop at nothing to clear her name and find the real killer.
Please note this book was first published as A Fatal Fall of Snow under Faith Martin’s pen name JOYCE CATO.
The Riverboat Mystery (#3)
Jenny Starling is working for a wealthy businessman on a luxury paddle steamer. All she has to do is cook for his small number of guests. But things quickly turn sour.
She discovers the body of one of the passengers in the store cupboard. Who wanted him dead and why?
Jenny will have to ignore many red herrings and follow the clues to get to the bottom of a complex and intriguing murder mystery.
Is Jenny up the creek without a paddle?
Please note this book was first published as Dying for a Cruise under Faith Martin’s pen name JOYCE CATO.
The Castle Mystery (#4)
Jenny Starling has her dream job cooking for Lord and Lady Avonsleigh in a genuine castle.
But the dream is about to curdle. One of the castle’s treasures, a fabulously jewelled dagger, is used to murder a staff member. The victim is found stabbed through the heart in the conservatory.
Lady Avonsleigh insists that Jenny help the police find the murderer.
But how can Jenny solve this case when the murder was committed in front of several reliable witnesses, none of whom saw a thing?
Please note this book was first published as An Invisible Murder under Faith Martin’s pen name JOYCE CATO.
The Oxford Mystery (#5)
Jenny Starling has a summer job cooking at a prestigious Oxford college. But she’s not expecting murder on the menu.
Maurice Raines, womanising taxidermy society president, is found with a knife in his neck in the dining hall.
Everyone is in classes at the time of his death. So, frustratingly, it seems they all have an alibi.
The suspects include Maurice’s wife — and his lover.
The police need Jenny’s help to solve this perplexing case. But can Jenny keep her focus, with a budding romance of her own simmering nicely?
Please note this book was first published as Deadly Stuff under Faith Martin’s pen name JOYCE CATO.
The Teatime Mystery (#6)
Jenny Starling is doing the catering for the village cricket match. But she’s not expecting one of the players to come to a sticky end.
Everyone from the village has turned out to watch the match, which marks the club’s centenary.
The next man up to bat, Tristan Jones, is nowhere to be found. He is discovered behind the pavilion, murdered by a blow to the back of the head with an old cricket bat.
The handsome twenty-something stockbroker had a reputation as a Lothario, with an appetite for married women. Did a scorned woman or a cuckolded husband kill him?
He’s annoyed other people too. He took big risks with other people’s money and lost their lifesavings.
Soon another body turns up and Jenny Starling is going to need all her cunning to crack this complex case.
Please note this book was first published as Just Not Cricket under Faith Martin’s pen name JOYCE CATO.
The Country Inn Mystery (#7)
Jenny Starling is working at picturesque Spindlewood Inn in the Cotswolds for the weekend. It’s hosting a Regency Extravaganza, involving historical costume, amateur dramatics and food. A recipe for murder?
Leading actress and reputed man-eater Rachel Norman portrays a doomed noblewoman. But when she turns up actually drowned in the pond, there’s suddenly a murder to investigate.
There’s been plenty of trouble at the idyllic country inn. The performers weren’t a happy troupe, and Jenny discovers a simmering romantic tension.
Who wanted Rachel dead and why? Has Jenny Starling bitten off more than she can chew this time?
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