Natasha Cooper worked in publishing for ten years before leaving to write full time. Her first crime novel was Festering Lilies, was published in 1990, the year she joined the Crime Writers' Association. In 2000 she took the chair of the CWA, and published Prey to All, her tenth crime novel. Cooper also reviews for a variety of newspapers and journals, including Crime Time and The Times Literary Supplement.

Natasha's story 'THe People in the Flat Across the Road' appears in ID.