Natasha Cooper, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur/Dunne $23.95 (306p) ISBN 978-0-312-30061-6
If this fourth offering in Cooper's series featuring British barrister Trish Maguire (after 2000's Prey to All) maintained its initial oomph, it would be a superb mystery. Alas, it comes up short in the end, as if the author was in the dark...
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Natasha Cooper, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur $24.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-312-33591-5
In British author Cooper's gripping sixth mystery to feature ambitious barrister Trish McGuire (after 2003's A Place of Safety
), Trish joins the prosecution team in a class-action lawsuit against one of Britain's largest food-store...
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Natasha Cooper, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur $24.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-312-34921-9
In British author Cooper's suspenseful seventh Trish Maguire mystery (after 2004's Keep Me Alive
), the London barrister agrees to take on a libel case concerning a politician newly raised to the House of Lords who's been named as the...
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Natasha Cooper, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur $24.95 (318p) ISBN 978-0-312-36212-6
The eighth Trish Maguire mystery (after 2005's Gagged and Bound
) finds the intrepid London barrister once again sympathizing with a suspected killer. This time it's sculptor Sam Foundling, Trish's long-ago client, who reappears in her...
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Natasha Cooper, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur $25.95 (371p) ISBN 978-0-312-38366-4
London barrister Trish Maguire, now a Queen's Counsel, undergoes messy professional and personal tribulations in her thought-provoking ninth outing (after 2007's Evil Is Done
). When her head of chambers is severely injured in an accident,
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Natasha Cooper, Author Minotaur Books $22.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-312-18666-1
From a simple but intriguing academic premise, Cooper (Rotten Apples, etc.) constructs an engaging puzzle based on modern police science for her seventh Willow King mystery. English amateur sleuth and romance novelist Willow helps her wealthy friend
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Natasha Cooper, Author Minotaur Books $23.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-312-25316-5
British author Cooper brings back her feisty barrister Trish Maguire (first seen in Creeping Ivy). Trish is in the midst of trying a harrowing child sexual abuse cases when Kara Huggate, a social worker who was supposed to testify on behalf of Trish'
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Natasha Cooper, Author Minotaur Books $23.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-312-26636-3
Readers who persevere with this somewhat languid contemporary British mystery will find it picks up speed toward the end. Comely barrister Trish McGuire usually argues child abuse cases before the bar, but in this, the third novel in the McGuire...
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Natasha Cooper, Author Minotaur Books $24.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-312-31936-6
In Natasha Cooper's A Place of Safety: A Trish Maguire Mystery, the fifth in the series after 2002's Out of the Dark, her barrister heroine looks into the loss of an art collection during WWI. What starts as an innocent investigation leads to ...
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Natasha Cooper, Author Crown Publishers $18 (0p) ISBN 978-0-517-57673-1
The second Willow King mystery by British author Cooper ( A Common Death ) is lightweight and wordy; clues unearthed all too slowly fall into place quickly and confusingly at the end. The puzzle takes a back seat to exhaustive descriptions of Willow'
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Natasha Cooper, Author St. Martin's Press $21.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-312-13161-6
In her fifth appearance (after Festering Lillies), London's Willow King-civil servant by day; romance writer by night; sleuth by necessity-takes on both death and taxes. The late Fiona Fydgett, an art dealer, was driven to suicide, according to her...
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Natasha Cooper, Author St. Martin's Press $21.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-312-15130-0
Despite the vulnerability she bestows on romance writer Willow King, the glamorous amateur sleuth last seen in Rotten Apples, Cooper's latest is a ho-hum whodunit. At 44, Willow has quite an ordeal giving birth to her first child. Hours after her...
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Natasha Cooper, Author, Arlene Friedman, Editor, Daphne Wright, With Crown Publishing Group (NY) $17.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-517-57665-6
Coolly efficient Willow King leads a double life. From Tuesday through Thursday, she's a bespectacled civil servant at London's Department of Old Age Pensions. For the rest of the week, she's the chic, immensely successful romance novelist Cressida...
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Natasha Cooper, Author, Daphne Wright, Author Crown Publishers $20 (0p) ISBN 978-0-517-59022-5
Cooper, aka British novelist Daphne Wright, follows A Common Death with this suspensefully plotted addition to the Willow King mystery series. Self-assured, well-to-do Willow shares her creator's penchant for multiple personas: she pens bestselling...
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Natasha Cooper, Author, Daphne Wright, Author Crown Publishers $22 (0p) ISBN 978-0-517-59023-2
Willow King, drab London civil servant by day and glamorous romance writer by night, embarks on her fourth mystery when she agrees to work on a memoir of Gloria Granger, a recently deceased writer whose once popular bodice rippers had become ``outmod
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