Mary Magdalene has just been born in Galilee and is later to witness a spectacular birth in a poor stable in Bethlehem. Joshua is the Son of God, yet she falls in love with Him, even though He can't marry her or give her children. But what if He did?

From the Author
The marriage of Jesus Christ and Mary Magdalene I needed to write the ultimate novel, that's all. Sion examines the ancient tradition of the love and marriage of Jesus Christ and Mary Magdalene, the ‘Queen of Hell' (the Virgin Mary being known in medieval times as the ‘Queen of Heaven'): can't get much more ultimate than that. A novel spanning sixty-five million years to the end of the world: that's a pretty big story. I wanted to take us back to Jesus's time, a world of first-century Jerusalem where Jesus Christ is real and true and anything can happen - just as, perhaps, it did. The best thing about writing Sion was that everything fell into place beautifully. Sion's set in a harsh world, but the more biblical scholarship I found, followed by the release of the Dead Sea Scrolls, made for a better truer deeper novel than I could have imagined. The book wanted to be written. For me the most painful time was the real death of my father when I just finished writing the scene where Jude finds the earthly body of Jesus preserved in the tomb, bleeding for ever. Maybe the book does succeed in saying something true.

Kill the Witch is the fourth entry in the vibrant and colourful historical crime series which feature Dr Simon Foreman - Elizabethan doctor, horoscope-caster and solver of mysteries. Dr Forman is a fictional character based on a real figure from the sixteenth century.
In this case Simon is invited to a wedding in Pinner and as one evil deed is followed by another the townsfolk believe they are under a curse. Only Simon can reveal the truth and hopefully in time to convince them that they are wrong to kill the witch.

'A good pacy read...Cook is keen on fine historical detail and has obviously mastered her subject' Evening Standard

A dilapidated, out-of-season holiday camp makes an odd setting for the Church's Millennium convention, and Deacon Theodora Braithwaite, lured from her beloved South London parish to be one of the speakers, wonders what beside discontent with their surroundings might unite church and laity. Clearly not the Millennium Message, the conference's theme. An unusual speaker, a Fool, who calls himself Josh the Jester and is licensed by the Church to mirror back truths it would rather forget, might possibly provoke some degree of consensus. But then he is found dead in a laundrette washing machine...
With her acerbic, pithy but essentially affectionate portrait of ecclesiastical life, D.M.Greenwood has made the clerical crime market her own.

When Superintendent Richard Jury follows a girl who catches his eye, he has no idea he will be identifying her in the morgue a few hours later. As it turns out, the body is that of another girl. With the help of an amateur sleuth, Jury sets out to discover the identity of the mystery woman.

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She does not know who she is, where she's from, how she got there. She wakes one morning in a bed-and-breakfast alone. She is told by the owner that she came in 'dead asleep' with her father.
But she knows the man is not her father. She takes her backpack, bedroll, and the wad of money she finds in his jacket and heads for the mountains, seeing in their bleak and towering landscape some kind of safety.
Months later, she walks down from the mountains and into the life of fourteen year-old Mary Dark Hope. Bound by lack of family, their murky pasts, their affinity for animals, they set out to find the man who abducted her. Whit-water rafting, canned hunts, molestations, and murder - all move towards an inevitable and harrowing confrontation.

The kidnapping of a small boy, a member of his family, gives lawyer Tam Buchanan an unlooked-for problem in the week before Christmas. The culprit is probably the boy's deranged junkie father, the ex-husband of one of Tam's doctor cousin's patients. The trail leads to the hospital where Hazel, the boy's mother works, one of whose doctors has been found dead in strange circumstances. The child's only hope seems to lie with Tam and his sleuthing partner, the ebullient Fizz on the case.

With his boss still recovering from a heart attack, Deputy Chief Constable Bob Skinner is filling his shoes - and that means more time than he'd like sitting behind a desk. But death- sudden and violent, or slow and insidious - is about to provide him with more drama than he could ever want.
Intelligence reports suggest that one of the world’s most ruthless freelance terrorists is on his way to Scotland - and he can only have one thing on his mind: the forthcoming special meeting of world Heads of Government in Edinburgh. If Skinner doesn't pick up his trail fast, he could have a global disaster on his hands.
For Skinner, the desperate race to find a heartless terrorist mixes uneasily with the search for a mercy killer ~-- a search which takes on a poignant personal significance. One thing's for sure' Skinner will soon be staring death straight in the eye....

'A worthy addition to Jardine's DCC Skinner novels' The Times

A physicist goes missing and turns up years later as the guru of a new age cult. He is found dead five years later, apparently as a result of an overdose, but Sergeant Peter Decker is not convinced that it was suicide. From the author of DAY OF ATONEMENT and MOON MUSIC.

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Jake is older, talented, exciting. But when Sigrid is isolated with him in a remote cottage on the moors, he becomes as dangerous and frightening as the landscape.
Flying from Jake's violence, Sigrid takes refuge with friends in St Ives and begins to find peace and a new love. But Jake explodes again into this safe life, making her face her conflicting and powerful feelings for him, and the dark secrets of her childhood.
Across the rugged coastline of Cornwall and the bleak and beautiful spaces of Dartmoor, Jake and Sigrid play out desperate roles of flight and obsession in this haunting tale, where the cycle of damage must be broken before the future can emerge.

In 1761 Robert Fairfax is travelling to the country home of his new employer along a lonely stretch of road that is the haunt of a notorious highwayman. He finds the Stamford to London coach with the driver shot in the head and the passengers murdered. The driver lives long enough to whisper that they were, indeed, held up by a highwayman. But Fairfax soon begins to suspect that there is more to this bloody deed than Simple highway robbery. One of the passengers supposedly dead is alive in the next town - and paralysed with fear. The other corpse appears to be that of a lunatic escaped from an asylum. But the records state that there were three passengers on board that day. So where is the third - a woman whose frantic husband awaits her return?

Society architect Christopher Redmayne is rebuilding London after the Great Fire. Jonathan Bale is a staunchly Protestant constable who believes that the Fire would never have happened in Cromwell's day.
Meeting by chance in the ashes of the ruined city, Redmayne and Bale would seem to have little in common. However when Sir Ambrose Northcott, who has just commissioned Redmayne to build a townhouse for him, is stabbed to death, the pair unite to unravel the complex and dangerous mystery he has left behind. A mystery which leads them to the brothels and gaming dens of Restoration London, across the Channel and to the private doors of the hedonistic Royal court itself...

In 1997 Cat and Mouse by James Patterson became an international bestseller. It raced to No.1 in the New York Times, was a Sunday Times bestseller on both its hardback and paperback publication earlier this year and featured in the Guardian Top 200.