'A fast-moving tale, full of twists and turns and as tricky as a Chinese box' Coventry Evening Telegraph      
'An accomplished first novel' Lancashire Evening Post      
'Quite magnificent' Birmingham Post

The Case Book of Dr Simon Forman Elizabethan doctor and solver of mysteries

Blood on the Borders is the third entry in the Casebook of Dr Simon Forman, the fictional character based on the real life existence of a sixteenth century doctor. In this vibrant and colourful mystery, Judith Cook brings the excitement and intrigue of Elizabethan espionage vividly to life.
It is May Day 1592 and after a busy day tending the sick and a night of drunken revelry, Dr Simon Forman falls into bed exhausted. Soon afterwards, he is woken by hammering at his door by a man who is dying from a sword thrust. The next morning Simon is summoned to Whitehall and is accused of harboring enemies of the state.
The dead man is identified as a Scottish spy and to prove his innocence Simon is forced to journey to Edinburgh on a secret mission for the Secretary of State. Once he enters the Borders between Scotland and England and his travelling companion is murdered Simon realises death is stalking him. As one gruesome murder is closely followed by another, Simon must act quickly to identify a ruthless killer before his own is put in jeopardy.

' Judith Cook brings her investigative journalistic skills usefully to bear...along with a rattling good grip on the plot" Guardian
"A good, pacy read...Cook is keen subject fine historical detail and has obviously mastered her subject" Evening Standard

Sophie Rivers is finally on holiday, leaving behind the stresses of a tough job teaching at a deprived inner-city college in Birmingham, and has just started dating cricketer Mike Lowden. When he becomes the chief suspect in the particularly nasty murder of a rival cricketer, Sophie becomes personally involved.
In spite of the fact that her old friend, Superintendent Chris Groom is in charge of the investigation she finds the surrounding circumstances sinister. Does she have to nail a bent policeman as well as find the real murderer? And what is the identity of the mysterious motorcyclist who's begun to stalk her?

Late spring in 1321 and Sir Baldwin Furnshill, Keeper of the King's Peace, is preparing for his wedding. He receives the sad news that Roger, Squire of Throwleigh, who was to be one of his guests, has died. The new master of Throwleigh is Herbert, the Squire's five-year-old son. While attending the funeral with friend, Bailiff Simon Puttock, Baldwin becomes deeply disturbed by the isolation and rejection that the boy seems to be suffering. For he has inherited great wealth with all that that implies...
When Herbert is reported dead only days later, the evidence at first seems to point to an accident. But as Baldwin and Simon begin to investigate, they become increasingly convinced that the boy was murdered.

Sister Agnes Bourdillon is a very contemporary kind of nun. She enjoys a night out in a restaurant with a glass of fine wine. She even finds certain men attractive. Young, independent and sharply aware of her own weaknesses, she does not need a habit and wimple to express her religious commitment.
Seconded to Silworth, a women's prison in Southwark, she finds the work compelling, as she attempts negotiate the complex web of loyalties and hatreds among the inmates. Then the father of Cally Fisher, one of the most troubled prisoners is shot dead nearby. The chief suspect is her boyfriend. In trying to help the situation, Agnes finds that she has become involved in a dark world that stretches further than the prison walls.

Agnes Bourdillon is one of crime fiction's most unusual and appealing heroines and her creator, Alison Joseph, is a stylish and thoughtful writer with a sharply perceptive vision of late twentieth-century civilisation and its discontents.

The Wildcats of Exeter is Edward Marston's eighth Domesday crime novel. Inspired by genuine entries in the Domesday Book, this thrilling and richly evocative eleventh-century tale will appeal to crime and history lovers alike.

Henry Beaumont, constable of Warwick Castle, keeps a renowned pack of fox-hounds: quick, brave and ruthless at the kill, just like their master. Yet one December hunt turns up a very different fox, when, to the horror of the riders, the dogs uncover a corpse in the woodlands - the crushed estate of the old Saxon thane, Thorkell, and a former member of Beaumont's own household. Enraged, Henry swears to find the killer.
By chance, justice is already on the way, in the form of Domesday commissioners Ralph Delchard and Gervase Bret, sent to adjudicate land disputes in the Warwick area. To their minds, the man Henry has arrested seems an unlikely villain; Boio, Thorkell's blacksmith. is bear-like but gentle. With no evidence, how can Henry be so adamant about Boio's guilt? And is Reynard's death linked to his forthcoming evidence in the land disputes? With dissent already brewing between their two new commissioners, haughty Philippe de Trouville and wise Archdeacon Theobald, and with Beaumont baying for blood, Ralph and Gervase have little time to save Boio's neck...

Belshazzar's Daughter is a striking debut novel set in contemporary Istanbul.

A particularly nasty murder takes place in Istanbul's decrepit Jewish quarter and the details suggest a racial motive. The city is a melting-pot of many religions and cultures: Turkish Muslims, Jews, Armenians and Europeans live side-by-side in relative harmony. The authorities fear that this comparative stability may now be threatened. Enter Inspector Cetin Ikmen, never one to accept the apparently obvious.
Ikmen's investigations lead to Robert Cornelius, an English-language teacher spotted outside Meyer's flat shortly after the murder, and Reinhold Smits, a retired German businessman with suspected Nazi sympathies. But the dead man's address book reveals a link with a ninety-year-old Russian émigré, Maria Gulcu, who has for decades run a strange, claustrophobic household from her ornate sickbed.

Belshazzar's Daughter is a novel highly evocative of its Istanbul setting and peopled with a myriad, multi-ethnic cast of characters who are portrayed with impressive psychological depth. It is a memorable story of tragic obsession which contains a particularly fine study of mental disintegration.

The long-lost son of a wealthy weaver, thought murdered six years before, has reappeared, to the joy of the old man but to the indignation of Alison Burnett, who refuses to believe the stranger is her brother. When she is disinherited she appeals to Roger the Chapman to prove her suspicions right.

'Stallwood is in the top rank of crime writers' Mike Ripley, Daily Telegraph

Thirty years ago , in an idyllic mountain spot in the Levant, Beatrice Markland witnessed something terrible. She was told to forget what she'd seen and she did; she blocked it out of her memory for good, or so she thought.
But now, Beatrice, married with a daughter and living in Oxford, is starting to remember. Her difficult childhood in the Middle East. Her absent brother and controlling parents. A young boy's diary. A picnic by the Rainbow Pool. And then... the terrible secret.

A caller asks lawyer Cinda Hayes a question she cannot answer on a radio show. Then Mariah contacts her again, desperate to unravel the meaning of her broken, violent memories. Cinda knows Mariah's case is tenuous at best, not one she should spend time on, until she realizes who Mariah's father is.