Cirrus@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)

'When lightning causes a fire at the wedding reception venue of culinary child prodigy Trudie Cooper's favourite teacher, Miss Best, it looks as if there will be no meal for the celebration. However, with only a box of vegetables and a few grapes to works with, and with the hour and a quarter she's got quickly running out, nine-year-old Trudie uses her extraordinary skill, and a dash to the only delicatessen in Melaleuca, to not only feed over seventy people, but to make the perfect replacement for the destroyed wedding cake. Included recipe: Possibly Trudie's Lemon Myrtle Syrup Cake Wordcount: 4,338 (excluding recipe)' (Publication summary)

'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 The secret is out, Trudie is on a mission to save the school library. She enlists the support of a TV personality, but as events unfold her secret is also revealed .' (Publication summary)