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Out of the Dark

Natasha Cooper author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Pan Macmillan

Published:19th May '16

Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back

Out of the Dark cover

The fourth book in Natasha Cooper's Trish Maguire series

How could anyone refuse to help an eight-year-old boy running for his life?

In the fourth Trish Maguire novel, her whole world is changed when the boy is knocked over by a skidding car outside her London flat.

Fighting to save his life, the casualty team find Trish's name and address sewn into his clothes. He looks so like her that the police are convinced he's her son. Only she knows he can't be. So who has sent him? And why?

Her desperate search for his identity takes Trish to a brutal inner-city housing estate, where she picks up the trail of a violent murder. It is not long before she discovers that the chief suspect is her father . . .

Convincing and hard-hitting * The Times *
Trish is an engaging character, warm, human, and well-drawn * Sunday Times *
Warmth, sincerity and good characterisation. Raises it above others in the genre * Sunday Telegraph *
Trish is cool, clever and charismatic * Guardian *
Cooper at her considerable best; aficionados need not hesitate . . . her skills in this kind of material remain non-pareil * Crimetime *
Like Minette Walters . . . Cooper writes methodical, meticulous crime * Mirror *
I'm delighted that Trish Maguire will be available to readers again, I'm a great fan. Natasha Cooper is a compelling crime-writer; her stories always start with an intriguing premise and lead us through to a satisfying conclusion. But she's more than an assured story-teller. Cooper is fascinated by the nature of evil and each story is a contemporary fable, exploring the roots and the consequences of violence. -- Ann Cleeves

ISBN: 9781509825554

Dimensions: 203mm x 133mm x 16mm

Weight: 327g

282 pages