A Greater Evil - Rilegato

Cooper, Natasha

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ISBN 10: 0743263103 ISBN 13: 9780743263108

Casa editrice: Simon & Schuster Ltd, 2007

Riassunto

Cecilia Mayford has it all: her career is sucessful; her husband is an internationally renowned sculptor; and their baby due in less than a month. But everywhere she goes, she finds people who are linked to her in the strangest ways. She feels trapped, haunted. Then one morning she is attacked in her husband's studio, so badly beaten that her baby is rescued by Caesarian section only moments before she dies. Her dangerous and vulnerable husband, Sam, was recorded on CCTV entering the building at the crucial time. The police pick him up at once. In his terror and misery he turns to barrister Trish Maguire, who has her own links to both him and Cecilia. Fighting her grief, her pity for Sam - and her suspicion - Trish finds herself in conflict with DCI Caro Lyalt, her greatest friend and the senior investigating officer on the case. Evidence against Sam mounts up. Cecilia's powerful mother is pressing for his arrest. The police hierarchy want him charged. If Trish is to save his reason, she must find out exactly what happened in the studio that morning, and time is running out ...

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Recensione:

'One of the most accomplished crime writers in the country' Mark Billingham
'Natasha Cooper is something of a rarity among crime writers these days. She is interested in the psychology of her characters, but as a way of documenting the foibles of (fairly) ordinary people rather than creating monsters barely found outside the pages of medical textbooks; she is concerned with issues of social justice, but always as part of her plot-driven credentials; she concentrates on depicting a world most of her readers will be familiar with, instead of producing a tourist murder tour. And, rarest of all, perhaps, she can write' TLS 2/2
'You know when you pick up a book by Natasha Cooper that you are going to find a literate, intelligent novel about real people . . . A complex and satisfying mystery . . . Like real life, a happy ending isn't guaranteed in this series, which increases the tension' Sunday Telegraph 4/2
'Natasha Cooper's heroine, Trish Maguire, is a barrister who subverts the stereotypes, an outsider whose troubled background sometimes gives her more in common with clients than colleagues.....Cooper is a first-class crime novelist. The narrative of this powerful and densely plotted novel is driven by her sense of injustice, and by her empathy for the vulnerable who so often become victims. She is particularly good on the brutal Byzantine intrigues of office politics and the hidden machinery of the legal system....a strong addition to a series that grows steadily more impressive'
The Spectator 10/2
‘Cooper is expert at detailing the effects of emotional crossfire. She turns her penetrating but compassionate gaze on the duties of parents and those in loco parentis, and on the complexity of loyalty and trust – at home and at work’
Guardian 24/2
‘Cooper is expert at detailing the effects of emotional crossfire. She turns her penetrating but compassionate gaze on the duties of parents and those in loco parentis, and on the complexity of loyalty and trust – at home and at work’
Guardian 24/2
‘Good crime novels with a legal setting are surprisingly rare, and Cooper’s series of novels based on the experiences of barrister Trish Maguire are therefore more than welcome. Her creation of plots and counter-plots, character and locale are eminently satisfying Maguire’s adventures are always eagerly awaited; an excellent series’ Sue Baker in today’s Publishing News on A GREATER EVIL
‘Her books are always page-turners. Unlike thrillers by men, where you are supposed to revel in the nastiness, she makes the human side more interesting’
Katharine Whitehorn ‘The Book I’d Like in my Stocking’, Good Housekeeping, Dec ‘07
‘It is a measure of Cooper’s skill that the many coincidences in A Greater Evil...all seem perfectly plausible... The cracks and stresses of individuals are explored...minutely’
Guardian 29/3

L'autore:

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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• Editore: Simon & Schuster Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0743263103
• ISBN 13: 9780743263108
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 336