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  • Bibliography:
    9 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    October 2010
  • Latest Book:
    August 2016
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Full Series List in Order

A Travelling Cook Mystery

1 - Birthdays Can Be Murder (Oct-2010)
2 - A Fatal Fall of Snow (Aug-2011)
3 - Dying for a Cruise (Aug-2012)
4 - An Invisible Murder (Dec-2012)
5 - Deadly Stuff (Jul-2014)

Book List in Order: 9 titles



  • Hired to cater the swanky birthday soiree of wealthy twins Alicia and Justin Greer, chef Jenny Starling arrives at their estate just in time for murder. It seems a servant was found floating in the goldfish pond, but lovely, spoiled Alicia won't let ...



  • Spending Christmas in a snowed-in country farmhouse cooking all the traditional seasonal food she loves sounds like a dream come true for travelling cook, Jenny Starling. Except that the family she is cooking for are hardly full of the Christmas spir...



  • When Jenny Starling, the travelling cook with a penchant for trouble, accepts an assignment to cook for a wealthy businessman on his luxurious river-boat, the fabulous Stillwater Sam, she sees nothing but plain sailing ahead. The River Thames is espe...



  • When traveling cook Jenny Starling starts her new job for the aristocracy living in a genuine castle, she is thrilled, envisioning nothing more arduous than days spent preparing her beloved recipes. When a fabulous jeweled dagger, one of the castle's...



  • Murder, STUFFED AND MOUNTED When chef Jenny Starling travels to Oxford to cater a taxidermist convention, she expects a duller-thandishwater crowd of non-foodies. But within the university's hallowed halls a devious crime is being plotted that wil...



  • In the small Cotswold village of Heyford Bassett, vicar’s wife Monica Noble throws a party for the village’s new residents. The guests include Margaret Franklyn and her philandering husband Sean, a celebrity chef and her cartoonist beau, a retire...



  • When asked to judge the neighboring village's Flower Show, vicar's wife Monica Noble is thrilled, even if she can't tell a begonia from an azalea! This year, competition is fierce, and when her fellow judge, a well-liked vicar, is killed, Monica must...



  • When travelling cook Jenny Starling is asked to cater the tea for a village cricket match, the last thing she expects is to be faced with the murder of one of the players. Jenny must choose her next strokes very carefully - it's going to take some fa...



  • Monica Noble and her husband Graham, the local vicar, are invited to participate in a high-flying ecclesiastical conference being held at a swanky hotel in their village. During the Saturday night dinner, the ambitious female cleric Celia Gordon trag...





Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Joyce Cato has published 9 books.

Joyce Cato does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, An Unholy Shame, was published in August 2016.

The first book by Joyce Cato, Birthdays Can Be Murder, was published in October 2010.

Yes. Joyce Cato has 1 series.