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by Natasha Cooper (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 371 pages
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd; First Edition edition (4 Feb 2008)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0743295471
  • ISBN-13: 978-0743295475
  • Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 15.8 x 3.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 615,993 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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In A Poisoned Mind, Natasha Coopers long-term heroine Trish Maguire has is savouring her new status as a QC when she is assigned a case a case which is not to her taste: she is to act for Clean World Waste Management, a company whose tanks that have detonated with one fatality: a farmer. Trish finds her loyalties sorely tested when she encounters the farmer's widow, fighting the company in David versus. Goliath fashion. Trish’s personal life is as conflicted as her professional; David, her half-brother, David, has become friends with the barely-civilised child Jay Smith, The latter disturbs Trish who wonders about his potentiality for being rescued from a nigh-wild existence. And a violent incident involving Jay, inevitably happens just as Trish is uncovering webs of deceit involving corporate double-dealing and kickbacks. , A Poisoned Mind is one of Natasha Coopers most trenchant novels, full of the usual authoritative plotting, but also taking on board a an stringent picture of British society that a world away from the more orthodox crime fiction that those who have not read her think is Coopers métier. In fact, she is one tough writer – if the idea of reading a book with a heroine called Trish doesn’t appeal, you are doing yourself a disservice. --Barry Forshaw


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"Simply gorgeous---a smart, complex, grown-up entertainment that rewards the reader on every page. Intricate in plotting, deft in characterization, ["A Poisoned Mind"] is one of the best legal thrillers I have ever read." ---Laura Lippman, "New York"" Times" bestselling author of "What the Dead Know
""[Natasha Cooper] is one to watch." ---Ian Rankin, Edgar award-winning author of "The Naming of the Dead
""Natasha Cooper brings a keen emotional intelligence to bear on the dark side of contemporary life. Trish Maguire is a heroine the new millennium." ---Val McDermid, author of "The Grave Tattoo
""Cooper excels at depicting the effects of terror on the weak and the strong." ---"Kirkus Reviews
""Natasha Cooper [is] one of England's best." ---"The San Diego Union Tribune
""Cooper's tense psychological thrillers are noteworthy for their taut pacing, devilishly clever plots, and keen insights into the darker recesses of the human psyche." ---"Booklist"
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5.0 out of 5 stars First class with an unexpected climax., 12 Jan 2009
By Lizzie Hayes "Lizzie" (Leicestershire) - See all my reviews
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Somehow I must have missed the last entrant in the Trish Maquire series, but how quickly I was plunged in her world - as with one sentence Anthony, Trish's head of chambers, was before me in startling clarity: `weird how that bull's-turd colour suits you' Anthony says as he and Trish emerge from chambers en route to lunch.

Trish Maquire has now taken silk and is a QC much to the surprise and disgust of Barrister Robert Anstey who cannot imagine how anyone could prefer Trish to him! Consequently, she is now an expensive barrister, and so until she has won a few cases, she has rather more time on her hands than she has been used to.

However, that looks to change when Anthony is unable to act in the case of Clean World Waste Management v Angela Fortwell, and he asks Trish to take over. Trish is reluctant. The defendant Angie and her husband John had given up their corporate finance life in London and settled in a farm in Northumberland to bring up their children. Unfortunately their dreams didn't work out and when John is killed by an explosion in Clean World Waste Management's tanks of chemical waste, Angie had naively assumed that she would get justice for her husband's death, but everyone she contacted turned their back. Only Friends Against The Destruction of the Environment (FADE) offered any practical help.

There are many twists and turns as Trish delves deeper into the background to the case than Robert, acting as her junior, or her client, Clean World Waste Management, would like. As life has taught us all, not everyone is who they seem and many have a hidden agenda which Trish is so good at ferreting out.

On a personal front, after many ups and downs Trish and George have settled into something that certainly suits them for the present. Trish maintains her loft in Southwark, and George his cosy Fulham house. David, her half brother, has taken up with Jay Smith who is something of an experiment from the other side of the tracks.

Told from two points of view - Trisha's and Angie's - this is a first class read with an unexpected climax. Not to be missed.
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Lizzie Hayes
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5.0 out of 5 stars Superb, 10 Jul 2008
Simply excellent new installment in the story of Trish the formidable barrister. As always the characters are brilliant and really get to you - you find yourself judging them not as characters on a page but as people you just met.
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