The Winter Mystery

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Meet Jenny Starling travelling cook and reluctant amateur detective Please note this book was first published as A FATAL FALL OF SNOW under Faith Martin s pen name JOYCE CATO Jenny Starling is spending Christmas in a snowed in 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 give the police a hand She will stop at nothing to clear her name and find the real murderer This is the second of a series of gripping murder mysteries with a great cast of characters and baffling crimes which will keep you in suspense to the final page Perfect for fans of classic whodunits by authors like Agatha Christie, LJ Ross, TE Kinsey, and J.R Ellis What readers are saying about THE WINTER MYSTERY Really enjoying this series Nerys Jenny is an attractive, intelligent Rubenesque heroine, and the cast of characters above and below stairs are captured affectionately and wittily EuroCrime Really enjoyable and easy to read Anne marie A very nice cozy read Janet THE SETTING A snowed in farmhouse in rural Oxford A big Cotswold stone Georgian house with stables, outhouses, cobbled courtyard and resident sheepdog Charming, but cold and uncomfortable in winter JENNY STARLING 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 crusade to bring back real food And definitely doesn t like having to divert her attention from achieving the perfect Dundee cake or creating a new sauce recipe by having to solve a murder She finds crime very distracting, especially when there is chocolate to temper or pike to poach Nevertheless, she is very good 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 THE AUTHOR FAITH MARTIN is the best selling author of the DETECTIVE HILLARY GREENE mysteries, which have sold over 1 million copies globally in just over a year JENNY STARLING MYSTERIES Book 1 THE BIRTHDAY MYSTERY Book 2 THE WINTER MYSTERY More JENNY STARLING mysteries com New Read [ The Winter Mystery ] author [ Joyce Cato ] – kino-fada.fr This is a perfect read for Christmas time a snow covered farm in the Cotswold, a murder and smell of delicious food prepared by a professional, travelling cook, Jenny Starling sic who just happens to solve crimes in the meantime Hired by one of the Kelton Brothers to cook and serve food over Christmas, Jenny gets involved in a crime committed on one of the family members The relations within the Kelton family are rather complicated, and there is a plethora of suspects, which does not make This is a perfect read for Christmas time a snow covered farm in the Cotswold, a murder and smell of delicious food prepared by a professional, travelling cook, Jenny Starling sic who just happens to solve crimes in the meantime Hired by one of the Kelton Brothers to cook and serve food over Christmas, Jenny gets involved in a crime committed on one of the family members The relations within the Kelton family are rather complicated, and there is a plethora of suspects, whi...Clever, clever, clever Another cozy mystery that would warm your heart and tingle your grey cells in this holiday season.This time Jenny is hired as a cook for the Christmas holidays Her employer, the farmer Stan Kelton is despised by everyone, even his own family He is rude, vulgar and domineering and as soon as Jenny arrives at the farm, she senses the tense atmosphere and the resentment emanating from each member of the family and realizes that this is going to be one of those Christmases Clever, clever, clever Another cozy mystery that would warm your heart and tingle your grey cells in this holiday season.This time Jenny is hired as a cook for the Christmas holidays Her employer, the farmer Stan Kelton is despised by everyone, even his own family He is rude, vulgar and domineering and as soon as Jenny arrives at the farm, she senses the tense atmosphere and the resentment emanating from each member of the family and realizes that this is going to be one of those Christmases Gloomy and dispirited The only person, doing his best to keep the peace, is Stan s older brother Sid, a kindhearted and gentle soul who is housebound due to illness.Then the inevitable happens Someone is murdered in the kitchen of the farmhouse If you think the victim i...Jenny Starling in spending Christmas in a snowed in country house cooking all the traditional meals that she s loves But the family she is working for are not full of the seasonal spirit Actually, they don t seem to like each other Someone is found dead on Christmas Eve and Jenny is getting the blame This is the second book in Faith Martin s new series in the Jenny Starling mysteries Jenny works as a cook who hires herself out She has taken a job working for a farming family that will last Jenny Starling in spending Christmas in a snowed in country house cooking all the traditional meals that she s loves But the family she is working for are not full of the seasonal spirit Actually, they don t seem to like each other Someone is found dead on Christmas Eve and Jenny is getting the blame This is the second book in Faith Martin s...The Winter Mystery, first published as A Fatal Fall of Snow in 2011 under Faith Martin s pen name Joyce Cato, is another fantastic addition to the Jenny Starling cosy mystery series In this second book, amateur sleuth and travelling cook Ms Starling dreams of a relaxing Christmas in a country farmhouse surrounded by snow but her version of utopia soon turns to dystopia when a murder is committed I couldn t think of aperfect read than this as the nights draw in, it becomes chillier and Ch The Winter Mystery, first published as A Fatal Fall of Snow in 2011 under Faith Martin s pen name Joyce Cato, is another fantastic addition to the Jenny Starling cosy mystery series In this second book, amateur sleuth and travelling cook Ms Starling dreams of a relaxing Christmas in a country farmhouse surrounded by snow but her version of utopia soon turns to dystopia when a murder is committed I couldn t think of aperfect read than this as the nights draw in, it becomes chillier and Christmas is just around the corner I didn t exactly warm to Jenny straight away in the first book, but I am beginning to like her nature and her integrity when investigating a murder that is baffling everyone around her.The pace is ideal, not too fast, not too s...Please note this book was first published as A FATAL FALL OF SNOW under Faith Martin s pen name JOYCE CATO.Jenny Starling, a traveling cook who always seems to find herself in the position of an amateur detective, is spending Christmas working for a dysfunctional family, to say the least The farm is mostly snowed it and there s no signal for phones Jenny feels a bit unnerved although she couldn t tell you why.Until Christmas Eve when she finds herself sitting across the table from a man, Please note this book was first published as A FATAL FALL OF SNOW under Faith Martin s pen name JOYCE CATO.Jenny Starling, a traveling cook who always seems to find herself in the position of an amateur detective, is spending Christmas working for a dysfunctional family, to say the least The farm is mostly snowed it and there s no signal for phones Jenny feels a bit unnerved although she couldn t tell you why.Until Christmas Eve when she finds herself sitting across the table from a man, obviously dead, with a knife still stuck in his chest.The police who show up to investigate are of no help they have never worked a murder case and have no idea of where to start Learning that Jenny hasexperience with dead bodies than the...Four and a half stars rounded up to five The Winter Mystery is the second book in the new Jenny Starling Mysteries series by Faith Martin Both books have been completely independent of one another and it is not necessary to read them in order of writing to enjoy them Jenny Starling is the central character and she works as a cook for hire In this book she has accepted a job to cook for a farm family for two weeks over the Christmas holiday From the first page, the reader is plunged into a c Four and a half stars rounded up to five The Winter Mystery is the second book in the new Jenny Starling Mysteries series by Faith Martin Both books have been completely independent of one another and it is not necessary to read them in order of writing to enjoy them Jenny Starling is the central character and she works as a cook for hire In this book she has accepted a job to cook for a farm family for two weeks over the Christmas holiday From the first page, the reader is plunged into a cold that has been created by an extraordinary snowfall They sympathize with Jenny and agree with her negative assessment of the situation and the inhabitants as the book opens with Je...Thank you NetGalley and Joffe Books for this arc.I really enjoyed this 2 Jenny Starling story Kept hearing echoes of Miss Marple during my reading It wasn t a fast paced book, yet it was a very compelling...The real mystery is how the h e c k is this set and written in XXI century.Are you longing for the good old days when men were men, women were cooking and cleaning, grown up children were still completely dependent on their fathers and grandfathers, and the sole dream of the young man would be to marry a sweet girl next door, which the grandfather forbade Oh, and did I mention, no phones, and an occasional murder If this looks like your thing, then you might like the book.I, personally, did The real mystery is how the h e c k is this set and written in XXI century.Are you longing for the good old days when men were men, women were cooking and cleaning, grown up children were still completely dependent on their fathers and grandfathers, and the sole dream of the young man would be to marry a sweet girl next door, which the grandfather forbade Oh, and did I mention, no phones, and an occasional murder If this looks like your thing, then you might like the book.I, personally, didn t It wasn t bad, but just so ridiculously anachronistic.The thing I hated most was probably ho...I really enjoyed this book, it was well written and I liked the characters I will be reading the second one and hope there will bein this series.

The Winter Mystery
  • 19 April 2018
  • Kindle Edition
  • 237 pages
  • Joyce Cato
  • The Winter Mystery