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The Birthday Mystery (Jenny Starling Mystery #1)

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December 2018

Meet Jenny Starling: travelling cook and reluctant amateur detective. Please note this book was first published as 'BIRTHDAYS CAN BE MURDER' under Faith Martin’s pen name JOYCE CATO. Jenny Starling is catering the twenty-first birthday party of upper-class twins, Alicia and Justin. She arrives at their parents' 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 goes ahead. Then just after midnight, everyone gathers for a champagne toast... and one of the guests falls down dead. The police are baffled and there is a whole party full of suspects. When it comes to someone adding the extra ingredient of poison to her own precious recipes, Jenny isn't going to take it lying down. She has a reputation to protect. Jenny Starling won't stop until the murderer is found.