- Paperback
- Publisher: Pocket Books (6 Mar 1995)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0671853546
- ISBN-13: 978-0671853549
- Product Dimensions: 17.6 x 11 x 2.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 909,535 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Moving from Clapham to Belgravia, from the grey world of the Civil Service to the more glamorous ones of the House of Commons, publishing, the City and the tabloids, this is the first in a suspense series featuring investigator Willow King.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I picked up "Festering Lillies" because I enjoy Natasha Cooper's other books with Trish Maquire and was interested to see her other "character". If, like me, you enjoyed the Maquire books this is similiar in having a feisty, opinionated but human heroine who thinks she's self sufficient (but isn't). It is written with the same light, humourous tone which looks at the frailities of others with compassion but also a touch of cynicism and wit. I enjoyed the style, and liked the fact that as a whodunnit it avoided the more "brutal" aspects of most detective novels - the post mortem, detailed descriptions of violence etc. The "detection" is less important than character and storyline. I enjoyed it and it made me smile - I'll certainly look for others in the series to see how it develops.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
A New Old Whodunit
19 Aug 2000
Format:Hardcover
The Willow King mysteries of Natasha Cooper are of an old style that had been modernized. There is little explicit violence; all sex is tasteful, but the plots and characterization is modern. I was reminded somewhat of P.D. James.
Willow King leads a double life -- bureaucrat in a fictional British government bureau -- Department of Old Age Pensions and as a writer of romance novels. This twist of personalities helps to make the story interesting.
The characterizations and the evoking of a keen sense of place were highlights for me. The actual plot, though interesting, is not particularly unusual, although there was a very interesting twist in the end that I should have seen coming, but didn't.
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