The Floating Admiral was the first of the Detection Club's collaborative novels, in which 12 of its members wrote a single novel. Eighty-five years later, 14 members of the club have once again collaborated to produce The Sinking Admiral. The Admiral is a pub in the Suffolk seaside village of Crabwell, the Admiral Byng. The Admiral is also the nickname of its landlord, Geoffrey Horatio Fitzsimmons, as well as the name of the landlord's dinghy. None of them are as buoyant as they should be, for the pub is threatened with closure due to falling takings. Tempers are already frayed due to the arrival of a television documentary team when Fitzsimmons is found dead in his tethered boat. The...

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...A Greater Evil is a powerful and moving novel that...

The Indomitable Trish Maguire Is Back Fighting The Causes Of Ordinary People.. While Exploring The Underground Of London's Organised Crime Scene. Seventh In The Trish Maguire Series.

Felled by food poisoning in the middle of a case against a huge supermarket chain, barrister Trish Maguire is driven to investigate. Her client, Will Applewood, opens her eyes to the dangers that can hide behind the pretty packaging of the food we all eat. As he takes her out into the country, she discovers a world quite different from the metropolitan life she loves. But human nature doesn't change. Cruelty and intimidation can flourish in the ravishing countryside just as they do in the nastiest of inner-city housing estates. Moving between the two, trying to save lives and sanity, Trish finds out what really matters in a novel that combines frivolity, excitement and agonising human...

The exciting new novel in the Trish Magiure series - can Trish find out what goes on in the murky depths of the art world and save her family at the same time? Trish Maguire is blessed with a slug of unexpected free time when a big case settles before it gets to court. She plans to spend it with her family. Sir Henry Buxford, an influential acquaintance, has other ideas. He asks her to investigate one of his private charities, a magnificent art collection built up before 1914 and lost for most of the twentieth century. The work is right outside Trish's usual field, and she needs all the time she can get to help her 9-year-old half-brother adjust to life after his mother's murder. Only...

"Trish Maguire is a heroine for our times." - Val McDermid The fourth in Natasha Cooper's Trish Maguire series, OUT OF THE DARK is a touching and gripping novel in the bestselling tradition of Frances Fyfield. An eight-year-old boy comes running out of the dark to find barrister Trish Maguire one wet Sunday night. Just before he can get to her, he's knocked over by a skidding car. Fighting to save his life, the casualty team find Trish's name and address sewn into his clothes. The police are convinced that he looks like her and must be her son. Only Trish knows he can't be. Recovering from a miscarriage, about to go to court with a career-changing commercial case, missing her partner,...

Deb has served 5 years in prison for the murder of her father when Trish Maguire is invited to become part of a documentary investigation that might clear her name. But events take an unexpected turn when the MP who had come out in support of Deb is murdered.

Trish Maguire is furious when Kara, the social worker she's depending upon for her latest case, fails to turn up for court. However, when she finds out that she has been murdered, Trish is determined to find her killer.