Gagged & Bound (A Trish Maguire Mystery) - Hardcover

Agreeing to assist a biographer with a libel case involving a powerful politician who may have ties to a thirty-year-old terrorist bombing, barrister Trish Maguire also assists her old friend, Inspector Caro Lyalt, investigate allegations that her closest rival for a high-ranking new police post may have ties to one of South London's leading organized crime families.

Natasha Cooper is an expublisher, past chair of the Crime Writers' Association, and lifelong Londoner who sets her novels in the city that she loves. She also writes for a variety of newspapers and journals, and has contributed to many radio programs in the UK. She regularly speaks at crime writing conferences on both sides of the Atlantic, including an appearance as toastmistress at Bouchercon 2004. 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.”