Bücher von Faith Martin

From multi-million-selling Faith Martin, one of Britain's best-loved mystery writers.Meet Jenny Starling: travelling cook and reluctant amateur sleuth.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?This delightful cozy mystery series is perfect for fans of Agatha Christie, LJ Ross, Richard Osman, the Rev Richard Coles, Janice Hallett, Fiona Leitch and Veronica Heley.Please note this book was first published as Deadly Stuff under Faith Martin's pen name JOYCE CATO.

From multi-million-selling Faith Martin, one of Britain's best-loved mystery writers.Meet Jenny Starling: travelling cook and reluctant amateur sleuth.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?This delightful cozy mystery series is perfect for fans of Agatha Christie, LJ Ross, Richard Osman, the Rev Richard Coles, Janice Hallett, Fiona Leitch and Veronica Heley.Please note this book was first published as An Invisible Murder under Faith Martin's pen name JOYCE CATO.

From multi-million-selling Faith Martin, one of Britain's best-loved mystery writers. Meet Jenny Starling: travelling cook and reluctant amateur sleuth. 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.This delightful cozy mystery series is perfect for fans of Agatha Christie, LJ Ross, Richard Osman, the Rev Richard Coles, Janice Hallett, Fiona Leitch and Veronica Heley. Please note this book was first published as Just Not Cricket under Faith Martin's pen name JOYCE CATO.

From multi-million-selling Faith Martin, one of Britain's best-loved mystery writers.Meet Jenny Starling: travelling cook and reluctant amateur sleuth.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?This delightful cozy mystery series is perfect for fans of Agatha Christie, LJ Ross, Richard Osman, the Rev Richard Coles, Janice Hallett, Fiona Leitch and Veronica Heley.Please note this book was first published as Dying for a Cruise under Faith Martin's pen name JOYCE CATO.

From multi-million-selling Faith Martin, one of Britain's best-loved mystery writers.Meet Jenny Starling: travelling cook and reluctant amateur sleuth.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?This delightful cozy mystery series is perfect for fans of Agatha Christie, LJ Ross, Richard Osman, the Rev Richard Coles, Janice Hallett, Fiona Leitch and Veronica Heley.

From multi-million-selling Faith Martin, one of Britain's best-loved mystery writers.Meet Jenny Starling: travelling cook and reluctant amateur sleuth.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.This delightful cozy mystery series is perfect for fans of Agatha Christie, LJ Ross, Richard Osman, the Rev Richard Coles, Janice Hallett, Fiona Leitch and Veronica Heley.Please note this book was first published as A Fatal Fall of Snow under Faith Martin's pen name JOYCE CATO.

From multi-million-selling Faith Martin, one of Britain's best-loved mystery writers.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.INCLUDES A BRILLIANT BONUS SHORT STORY THE PROOF IS IN THE PUDDING.This delightful cozy mystery series is perfect for fans of Agatha Christie, L.J. Ross, Richard Osman, the Rev Richard Coles, Janice Hallett, Fiona Leitch and Veronica Heley.

Ein hochstaplerischer Geisterjäger bringt Licht ins Dunkel Oxfordshire, 1924: Arbuthnot »Arbie« Swift, selbst ernannter Geisterjäger und sich der Inexistenz des Übernatürlichen bestens bewusst, wird zum Einsatz gerufen. Angeblich treiben sich Geister auf dem Anwesen seiner Nachbarin herum. Doch während Arbie vorgibt, den Spuk zu untersuchen, geschieht das Ungeheuerliche: Die Hausherrin wird tot aufgefunden. Aber wie - und von wem - wurde sie getötet, wenn alle Fenster und Türen ihres Zimmers von innen verschlossen waren? Sollte es tatsächlich Geister geben? Schon bald findet Arbie sich zwischen geheimen Liebesaffären und tragischen Verlusten wieder, die Wahrheit und Fiktion vor seinen Augen immer mehr verschwimmen lassen ...

Former Detective Hillary Greene and her cold case team are handed an impossible case.Thirty years ago, two days before Christmas, the much-loved Reverend Keith Coltrane was hit over the head and left to die inside his own church. The killer was never caught.This shocking crime took place in the pretty Oxfordshire village of Lower Barton. Everyone knows everyone else in this peaceful little community. Who would have wanted to harm the young Reverend, who was handsome and popular - especially with the ladies of the village? No one has a bad word to say about him - apart from his younger sister.Now, Hillary and her team of misfits are ready to find out the truth. They uncover old secrets, jealousies and long-standing feuds in the village. Secrets someone will kill to keep hidden.Hillary is also hiding something - but she's finding it harder and harder to keep her own secret.It's up to Hillary to uncover the shocking truth in this coldest of cold cases - before old crimes turn to new murder.

A BRAND-NEW MYSTERY FROM THE TWO-MILLION-SELLING AUTHOR.Former Detective Hillary Greene and her cold case team are taking a fresh look at the unsolved murder of Michael Beck, found bludgeoned over the head and dead in a river near his home in 2012.Just twenty-two at the time, he'd recently finished a history degree and had his whole life ahead of him. Everyone said he was a pleasant sort of lad with a passion for the past, quietly living with his parents until he could afford a place of his own. But it quickly turned out that there were at least two people who might have wanted him dead.The first, his recently-jilted girlfriend Mia de Salle, hadn't taken the break-up well. The second, his former tutor Dr Timothy Durning, had been accused of sexual harassment by Michael. But the original team could find no forensic evidence linking either of their prime suspects to the crime, nor witnesses placing them in the area when Michael was killed.Hillary, however, is determined to find fresh leads. But while she and her team get to work, in the city of Oxford two men from the city's criminal underbelly have been viciously murdered in the last six months.Are the recent murders and her own cold case linked? More than a decade later, has the same killer struck again? And if so, what's the connection between the mild-mannered young man and the underworld criminals?It's up to Hillary to stop a killer getting away with murder - both now and then.Perfect for fans of Betty Rowlands, Agatha Christie, L.J. Ross, T.E. Kinsey, J.R. Ellis, Helen Cox, M.C. Beaton, or Clare Chase.