- Paperback: 352 pages
- Publisher: Pocket Books; Re-issue edition (6 Jun 2005)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0743496027
- ISBN-13: 978-0743496025
- Product Dimensions: 17.2 x 11 x 2.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 616,223 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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When four-year-old Charlotte goes missing from a playground near her home, her mother, Antonia, turns to her cousin Trish Maguire, a barrister with plenty of heartbreaking professional experience of what can happen to children at the hands of abusive adults. But as the police pull out all the stops to find the child, no one is exempt from suspicion. Charlotte's mother faces tabloid vilification for leaving the child in the hands of an unsupervised nanny; her estranged father faces the full rigour of a police investigation; and even Trish finds herself at the top of the list of suspects. Trish is prepared to do anything, to use any of her friends - including Willow King and Emma Gnatche - to find out what has happened to Charlotte, but time is running out and even Antonia is beginning to question Trish's innocence.
About the Author
An ex-publisher, past Chair of the Crime Writers' Association, and lifelong Londoner, Natasha Cooper writes for a variety of newspapers and journals, including Crime Time and The Times Literary Supplement. She contributes to many radio programmes such as Woman's Hour and Saturday Review, and regularly speaks at crime-writing conferences on both sides of the Atlantic. She is the author of, among many others, FAULT LINES, PREY TO ALL and OUT OF THE DARK. In 2002 she was shortlisted for the Dagger in the Library, an award that 'goes to the author whose work has given most pleasure to readers'.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Creeping Ivy by Natasha Cooper
Trish Maguire is shocked when she turns on the news to discover that her cousin Antonia Weblock's daughter Charlotte is missing, having vanished from a local playground.
There are the obvious suspects, Charlotte has a stepfather, a Nanny, a father that has never spoken to her, an Aunt, who may have hurt children in the past.
As a barrister who has specialised in cases involving child abuse, Trish Maguire comes under suspicion by the very nature of the research she has conducted into child abuse.
Apart from a mystery that kept me hooked, there is a great deal of pain in this book. The interesting thing is that although I liked most of the characters, their background did not preclude any of them from a possibility of having committed the abduction of Charlotte. Thus, I was kept guessing to the end.
The abduction of a child gives free reign to the imagination, something in the circumstances we would all like to stifle. It permutates everything and all our relationships, and in this book Natasha Cooper explores all those emotions.
Highly recommended.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I could not put this book down. The author writes in such a way that you just have to read on. When a young girl goes missing presumed dead everyone is a suspect including Trish her mothers cousin a barrister. This book brings together the horrors of child abduction without too much graphic detail a really good read that I would recomend to anyone.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Excellent psychological suspense
10 July 1999
Format:Hardcover
In a London park, four-year old Charlotte Weblock mysteriously vanishes when her nanny becomes distracted for a moment. The media blasts Charlotte's mother renowned banker Antonia for leaving much of the care of her child with a nanny. Though the child may have wandered off by herself, law enforcement officials believe someone abducted the little girl.
The police find several suspects close to the victim's family who have the motive and the means to carry out a kidnapping. They investigate the nanny and Charlotte's stepfather, both of who had ample opportunity. They look into the background of Charlotte's biological father too. Finally, the police make inquiries into Trish Maguire, Antonia's cousin. Trish, a crusading barrister, specializes in child abuses cases. Trish, a former victim of abuse, begins her own inquiry into what happened to Charlotte.
Natasha Cooper, author of the Willow King mysteries, shows the width and depth of her talent by taking a turn into an entirely different type of story line. CREEPING IVY is an intelligently written psychological thriller that puts its' focus on a parent's worst nightmare. However, the well-designed plot actually centers on the investigation by Trish, which leads her to never accept the external mask of anyone ever again. Readers will want more stories starring Trish, a wonderful protagonist.
Harriet Klausner
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
This is a "cozy"?
28 Aug 2004
Format:Hardcover
Although I love a chilling psychological mystery (Ruth Rendell rules), sometimes nothing hits the spot like a good old-fashioned British cozy with characters suitable for a game of "Clue" and a victim who's usually unbereavble by all -including the reader. I picked up this book because a blurb said the author was a master of the genre. What I found was a crime that simply cannot make the transition to "entertainment" in my mind(child abduction/pronography/molestation/murder)along with uniformly cold, unlikeable characters and a cynical attitude that must have Agatha Christie twirling in her grave.
Not a pleasant read.
Not a pleasant read.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Disappointed by ending
4 Sep 1999
Format:Hardcover
While this was a very good book, I was quite disappointed by the ending. It wasn't fulfilling enough. After reading it all day and breathlessly waiting for the climax to a kidnapping story, I felt let down. I'm not sure if I'll read any of Natasha Cooper's other books.
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