Natasha Cooper Mystery Collection

Natasha Cooper Novels

Sour Grapes by Natasha Cooper

Creeping Ivy by Natasha Cooper

Every mother's worst nightmare is the disappearance of her child. When Antonia Weblock's four-year-old daughter Charlotte vanishes from the local playground, even her enemies are sympathetic.
The police pull out all the stops to find Charlotte, asking the questions that are in everyone's mind: Did she wander off, or was she kidnapped? Is her seemingly devoted nanny not telling the whole truth? Why wasn't her stepfather looking after her as he'd promised? And where was her real father when she went missing?
Vilified by the tabloids for putting her child at risk for the sake of her successful London career, Antonia turns to her cousin Trish Maguire for help. As a barrister specializing in cases involving children, Trish knows exactly what can happen to them at the hands of abusive adults. She is prepared to do everything she can to find out what happened to Charlotte. But no one who knows the child can be above suspicion, and it is not long before Trish herself comes to the attention of the police.
In Trish Maguire, Natasha Cooper has created a memorable character whose strong ideals and fierce intelligence belie her private torments and vulnerability. Creeping Ivy is a menacing story of manipulation and betrayal that will stay in the mind long after the book is finished.

The Drowning Pool by Natasha Cooper

When forty-four-year-old civil servant and romance writer Willow King finds herself experiencing motherhood for the first time, to prove that she is not stuck at home, she begins investigating the murder of her obstetrician, only to become the killer's next target.

Prey to All by Natasha Cooper

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British barrister Trish Maguire is keeping a deathwatch at the bedside of her father, from whom she's long been estranged, when an old friend prevails on her to help Deborah Gibbert, a woman accused of suffocating her own ailing father. Even her own family believe Deb killed her father, a difficult man whose death by "natural causes" was successfully challenged by Deb's sister and led to a guilty verdict against her. Trish's own conflicts with her father inform her efforts on Deb's behalf; so does Deb's long friendship with an M.P. whose motives for helping her case are murky, to say the least.
This relatively bloodless psychological thriller is short on suspense but somewhat longer on character development. Trish is a complex woman whose sense of obligation to her family and friends, as well as her clients, often results in the kind of intrapsychic conflicts that make for interesting reading but detract from the pace of the narrative and do little to ratchet up the dramatic tension. This is her third appearance in an otherwise unremarkable series that will appeal mostly to those interested in the arcane workings of the English legal system.

Rotten Apples by Natasha Cooper

Elegant sleuth Willow King investigates the suspicious suicide of Dr. Fiona Fydgett, a famous art historian and troublemaker, and suspects abound as Willow races to expose Fiona's killer before she becomes the next victim.

Fault Lines by Natasha Cooper

The brilliant and idealistic Trish Maguire returns in a devastating case of corruption and conspiracy.
In a particularly difficult case of alleged child abuse, Trish knows that the jury's decision hinges on the persuasive testimony of her friend and star witness, Kara Huggate. When Kara doesn't appear at the trial, she realizes that something must have gone terribly wrong.
She returns to her chambers after court to find the police waiting for her with some horrifying news: Kara has been brutally raped and murdered. At first it seems as though her attacker was the Kingsford Rapist - a serial rapist and killer who has managed to elude the police. Then several inexplicable clues indicate that the murderer may have been a copy cat.
Trish receives a letter from Kara, posted the night of her death, asking her to help a suspicious man named Blair Collons. Although Trish decides to help him out of loyalty and affection for her friend, she cannot understand why Kara cared so much for the paranoid and strangely obsessive Blair. Soon Trish finds herself mired in his unhappy story, with potentially devastating consequences.
Fault Lines is a tense and disturbing examination of the power of corruption and the lengths to which people will go to protect themselves.

About the Author
NATASHA COOPER is Chairman of the Crime Writers' Association and reviews books for several newspapers and journals in London. The author of the Willow King mystery series, she lives in England. Prey to All is her tenth crime novel.

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