From Booklist
Feisty, intelligent, independent-minded Willow King, British civil servant turned successful romance novelist, has undergone yet another metamorphosis. Now married, she's just delivered a lovely daughter named Lucinda. Raging postpartum hormones, some worrying medical complications, and a nagging fear that she won't know how to care for her child temporarily overwhelm Willow. But when the obstetrician who delivered Lucinda is found murdered, Willow bounds into action. Pumping policeman-husband Tom for information and inventing ways to sleuth from the confines of her hospital bed give Willow just the stimulation she needs to get over her postpartum blues. But the case turns ugly when the killer comes after Willow and threatens Lucinda's life. An entertaining, cleverly plotted story that also provides some illuminating insights about parenthood, love, and marriage.
Emily Melton
From Kirkus Reviews
Civil Servant/romance novelist Willow King checks into Dowting's Hospital just in time for the death of senior obstetrician Alexander Ringstead, who can't attend to Willow's postpartum hemorrhage because he's been drowned in his own birthing pool. Ringstead cut such a high professional and personal profile that there's an embarrassment of suspects: his society mistress and her ruthless financier husband, his angry ex-lover, the activists of WOMB (Women Overtake Male Birthing) picketing the hospital, the resentful aspirant for Ringstead's consultancy, the cost-cutting business manager he'd opposed over the issue of rationing obstetric care. Sadly, Cooper, as usual (Rotten Apples, 1995, etc.), is too preoccupied in limning the latest changes in Willow's domestic establishment to give these promising lesser fry more than a cursory glance. For the Willow-smitten only. --
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