Festering Lilies (Willow King Mysteries) [Paperback]

Natasha Cooper (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 6, 1995 | Series: Willow King Mysteries

What could plain Willow King with her safe job have in common with Cressida Woodruffe, flame-haired sophisticate and best-selling romantic novelists? Well, everything, for Willow and Cressida are one and the same person. The author also wrote "The Distant Kingdom" and "The Longest Winter".

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Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: Pocket Books (March 6, 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0671853546
• ISBN-13: 978-0671853549
• Product Dimensions: 6.9 x 4.3 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,845,265 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A New Old Whodunit, August 18, 2000

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Robert P. Gray (Cronulla, NSW Australia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Festering Lilies (Ulverscroft Large Print Series) (Hardcover)

The Willow King mysteries of Natasha Cooper are of an old style that had been modernized. There is little explicit violence; all sex is tasteful, but the plots and characterization is modern. I was reminded somewhat of P.D. James.

Willow King leads a double life -- bureaucrat in a fictional British government bureau -- Department of Old Age Pensions and as a writer of romance novels. This twist of personalities helps to make the story interesting.

The characterizations and the evoking of a keen sense of place were highlights for me. The actual plot, though interesting, is not particularly unusual, although there was a very interesting twist in the end that I should have seen coming, but didn't.