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  • The Teatime Mystery

  • Jenny Starling, Book 6
  • By: Faith Martin
  • Narrated by: Charlotte Worthing
  • Length: 8 hrs and 8 mins
  • 4.4 out of 5 stars (125 ratings)
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The Teatime Mystery

By: Faith Martin
Narrated by: Charlotte Worthing
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Summary

Discover a new series of whodunits by million-selling author Faith Martin. These charming mysteries will have you scratching your head to work out who the murderer is.  

Meet Jenny Starling: travelling cook and reluctant amateur detective.  

Please note this book was first published as Just Not Cricket under Faith Martin’s pen name Joyce Cato.  

Jenny Starling is doing the catering for the village cricket match. But she’s not expecting one of the players to turn up dead.  

Everyone from the village has turned out to watch the match, and with this being the club’s centenary, Jenny Starling has been hired specially to provide her stunning food for the event.  

Then 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 20-something had a reputation as a Lothario, with an appetite for married women. Did a scorned woman or a cuckolded husband kill him?  

However, he’d annoyed other people too. He was a stockbroker who took big risks with other people’s money and lost their life savings.  

Soon another body turns up and Jenny Starling is going to need all her cunning to crack this complex case. 

This is the sixth in a series of enjoyable murder mysteries with a great cast of characters and baffling crimes which will keep you in suspense to the very end.  

Perfect for fans of classic whodunits by authors like Agatha Christie, LJ Ross, TE Kinsey, and J.R. Ellis.

©2019 Faith Martin (P)2019 Audible, Ltd

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It was okay as a light listen

i only enjoy these as a gentle story between heavier or meatier reads.

I found this one more grating than the previous books in the series. There's an immaturity to the character (wanting to cook a BBQ despite grizzly murder etc) that starts off as quite endearing but bulldozes it's way to irritating.

It's a cosy type accidental detective piece. Its not supposed to be super serious and I never try to listen to them in that way but I found this one a bit too ludicrous at times.

Even so... it was reasonably well narrated and a decent enough listen to fill some time.

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Summertime, Cricket and murder

a really good summertime mystery. Easy listening and quite a plausible storyline. very enjoyable story

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Great story A bit short ending

As said liked the story, but the endbit was a bit lost. Missed something there

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Boring

To long and keeps repeating it self. I have read Faith Martin books before and enjoy them but not this.

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Another exciting listen

Although I did guess who the murderer was, it wasn't until just before it was revealed, and after the evidence was plainly explained. These are really well written and brilliantly narrated.

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Easy listening

I've listened to a few of these now and have come to really enjoy a Jenny Starling mystery. well written, and read too. I look forward to the next one.

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