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Natasha Cooper's doughty heroine Trish Maguire is back, and readers are in for a highly entertaining time. Cooper creates another gritty, authentic London setting while concurrently portraying the horrors of the First World War. Trish Maguire plans to spend some free time with her family, but Sir Henry Buxford, an influential acquaintance, asks her to investigate one of his private charities, a magnificent art collection built up before 1914 and lost for most of the 20th century. Giving herself a crash course in the murkier end of the art market, and learning more than she can bear about the suffering in the trenches during the First World War, Trish soon finds the job invading her professional and private lives. Cooper is one of the most reliable practitioners of the genre at work today, and this is splendid stuff.

Barrister Trish Maguire feels let down when one of her biggest cases is settled before getting to court. Her clients had been treated badly and she wanted the world to see them receive justice. That is the trouble with Trish - she becomes too involved at a personal level, cares too much. And that is what leads her into the murkiest of all her mysteries in this latest of Natasha Cooper's thriller series. Trish hopes to devote some quality time to her nine-year-old half-brother David, a child still trying to cope with many bad experiences including the murder of his mother. But almost immediately she is drawn into an investigation that takes in the seamier side of the art world, a case of blackmail, some money-laundering, and a romance from the First World War. Past and present are skilfully interwoven in a complex but gripping plot, while the undercurrents of menace that threaten Trish and her family are never far away. Long before the end, Trish will have learned much more than she can bear about the suffering endured in First World War trenches and about the psychology of modern emotional torment. The 21st-century day-to-day life of London contrasts sharply with views of the past, and helps to create a potent atmosphere of immediacy. The ability to convey an emotive sense of place is one of Cooper's great talents, and her characters are believable and easy to identify with. In Trish Maguire we have a real heroine - someone with compassion, integrity and intelligence. Trish's fans will not be disappointed with the way she handles this latest case. (Kirkus UK)

Three generations of old boys, their old crimes, old mothers, and absent fathers. Antony Shelley, head of chambers and master of barrister Trish Maguire's universe, asks Trish to help out his friend Henry Buxton with a spot of discreet inquiry. Wealthy, well-connected Buxton is chairman of the board of the Gregory Bequest, a small museum of paintings collected in the dark days of WWI by Jean-Pierre Gregoire, the mysterious father of another member of the old boys' network, elderly Ivan Gregory. Buxton's godson Toby Fullwell, director of the Gregory Bequest, has recently sold a Pieter de Hooch for five million pounds the museum didn't need, and without raising a fuss among the old boys, Buxton wants to know why. The Fullwell family isn't new to Trish. Their two sons attend school with her half-brother David, who's doing a school report on WWI. Fortified by research on life in the trenches that helps her understand the unfortunate history of Ivan Gregory's parents, Trish perseveres and, in spite of well-bred obstructions, finds out more of what Buxton doesn't want to know: forgeries, money laundering, and corruption. Cooper excels at depicting the effects of terror on the weak and the strong; happily, Trish (Out of the Dark, 2002) is one of the latter. (Kirkus Reviews)

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The exciting new novel in the Trish Magiure series - can Trish find out what goes on in the murky depths of the art world and save her family at the same time? Trish Maguire is blessed with a slug of unexpected free time when a big case settles before it gets to court. She plans to spend it with her family. Sir Henry Buxford, an influential acquaintance, has other ideas. He asks her to investigate one of his private charities, a magnificent art collection built up before 1914 and lost for most of the twentieth century. The work is right outside Trish's usual field, and she needs all the time she can get to help her 9-year-old half-brother adjust to life after his mother's murder. Only Buxford's passionate desire to protect the vulnerable people involved in the Gregory Bequest Collection persuades her to take on the job. Giving herself a crash course in the murkier end of the art market and learning more than she can bear about the suffering in the trenches during the First World War, Trish soon finds herself sharing all his concern. As the small job grows to monster proportions, invading her professional and private lives, it brings about a death she knows she will never forget.

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