AustLit

'Trudie Cooper can't paint portraits, solve difficult sums in her head, write riveting novels, speak six languages, or do other clever things like that. She has no special musical or sporting skills, either .But she has a secret talent. She is a cookery genius! She can whip up any dish, feed a famished family, come up with yummy flavour combinations, and create original recipes that are all her own. In Catches a Cheat, a mystery is afoot when a cookery-show contestant cooks up a suspiciously too-tasty pie. Trudie uses her cookery knowledge to find out what is going on . .' (Publication summary)