Creeping Ivy by
Natasha Cooper
pbk out July 99
(Simon Schuster)
at £5.99
Successful merchant banker Antonia Weblock has earned plenty of enemies.
But not the sort who would kidnap her child. When the press turn on her for
leaving her child with a nanny whose momentary attention allowed Charlotte
to be snatched, Antonia turns for help to her cousin, barrister Trish
Maguire.
Since Trish specialises in cases involving children, she knows only too
well the horrors Charlotte can expect from an abusive paedophile kidnapper.
But her very expertise turns against her as she becomes the focus of the
police's attention, not least because of her own damaged childhood.
Suspected of conspiring with the nanny to steal her own cousin's child,
Trish is forced to investigate Charlotte's disappearance.
It's a search that forces her to think the unthinkable about people she
thought she knew. And when she finally confronts the truth, it means Trish
will never again view the world in the same way.
The psychological thriller is a new departure for Natasha Cooper, and
spreading her wings has helped her fly higher and stronger. Creeping Ivy is
every bit as insidious as its title. It's an engrossing study of revenge
(
Val McDermid
- Gold Dagger winner & creator of Lindsay Gordon, Kate Brannigan & Tony Hill)
Creeping Ivy by
Natasha Cooper