Natasha Cooper

Natasha doesn't dwell on the graphic aspects of a crime. She seems to focus more on the background of it...the legal aspect - I guess given her heroine is a barrister ? / QC that makes sense.
Trish is a bit too goody two shoes....seen as brilliant, I like my characters to have more human difficult lives. However this is book 7 and apparently s she and her half brother.have had struggling and traumatic lives in the other books. I found it hard to gel with where she is now, a brilliant barrister, high income , happy relationship ....
That said I was gripped by the storyline and read the book very quickly. I struggled at times with the roll call of characters . The ending too seemed complex . I am still unsure as to who was responsible for the making of the bomb.
The ending was quite a shock.… (meer)

When one of barrister Trish Maguire's first child clients comes back into her life as an adult she has no idea of the chain of coincidence and horror that will be revealed. Now a brilliant sculptor, Sam is married to one of Trish's fellow professionals on an insurance case involving the London Arrow, a ravishing new building that has shown sinister cracks since the day it was unveiled. Violent death is followed by psychological torment and a painful revisiting of the past by everyone involved. If Trish did not have the security of her life with solicitor George and her young half brother, David, she too might be dangerously destabilised...

I found this book a bit bland and I couldn’t really connect with any of the characters. The reason being I think is that the book is part of a series and the characters are established. Not reading the series from the beginning I fell I don’t know the characters and what has happened to them in previous books. The story itself for me wasn’t pacy enough and I was becoming rather bored with it. Towards the end I was skipping pages and just read the last few to see who had committed the crime. I think I would be inclined not to read anymore by this author at the moment.… (meer)