{"product_id":"the-winter-mystery-an-absolutely-gripping-whodunit-jenny-starling","title":"The Winter Mystery","description":"\u003cp\u003eMeet Jenny Starling: travelling cook and reluctant amateur detective.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePlease note this book was first published as “A FATAL FALL OF SNOW” under Faith Martin’s pen name JOYCE CATO.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJenny 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOn Christmas Eve, someone is found dead on the kitchen table. And the head of the family is blaming Jenny!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBut with an incompetent detective called in, and seemingly no motive for the murder, Jenny will have to give the police a hand.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShe will stop at nothing to clear her name and find the real murderer.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePerfect for fans of classic whodunits by authors like Agatha Christie, LJ Ross, TE Kinsey, and J.R. Ellis.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTHE SETTING\u003cbr\u003eA 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJENNY STARLING\u003cbr\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Faith Martin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51410977980585,"sku":"9781789310634","price":7.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0424\/9518\/0962\/files\/9781789310634.webp?v=1792293311","url":"https:\/\/roseyravelstonbooks.com.au\/products\/the-winter-mystery-an-absolutely-gripping-whodunit-jenny-starling","provider":"RoseyRavelston Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}