The Sixth Soul (DCI Rosen): Brilliant page turner - a dark serial killer thriller with a twist

The Sixth Soul (DCI Rosen): Brilliant page turner - a dark serial killer thriller with a twist

by Mark Roberts (Author), Mark Roberts (Author)

Synopsis

Six women. Six abductions. Six souls in peril...

London is in the grip of a barbaric serial killer, dubbed Herod by the tabloid press. Four pregnant women have been abducted in quick succession, their bodies mutilated and dumped. When a fifth pregnant woman, Julia Caton, is taken from her home in the dead of night, DCI David Rosen knows that time is running out to save her...

Then Rosen gets a mysterious phone call from Father Sebastian Flint, an enigmatic priest who seems to know rather too much about the abductions. When it emerges that Father Flint was once the Vatican's leading expert on the occult, the investigation takes an increasingly disturbing turn. But it isn't until Rosen discovers the existence of an ancient text - said to be the devil's answer to the bible - that the true horror of Herod's plan begins to unfold.

Rosen is drawn inexorably to the killer's lair, where he will discover a terrible truth - that Herod's retribution is absolute, and that there are far worse things than death...

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 368
Edition: Main
Publisher: Corvus
Published: 03 Oct 2013

ISBN 10: 0857897896
ISBN 13: 9780857897893
Book Overview: They call him Herod - a killer of unimaginable cruelty, with an unthinkable desire. This is a dark, disturbing and compulsively page-turning thriller, announcing Mark Roberts as a major new star, set to rival Mark Billingham.

Media Reviews
Intricate, fast-paced, and with a protagonist I am sure we will hear more of, Roberts announces himself as a genuinely innovative crime writer with a taste for the macabre and unexpected. * Daily Mail *
Brilliant storytelling -- Jimmy McGovern
Author Bio
Mark Roberts was born and raised in Liverpool and was educated at St. Francis Xavier's College. He was a teacher for twenty years and for the last ten years has worked as a special school teacher. He received a Manchester Evening News Theatre Award for best new play of the year. The Sixth Soul is his first novel for adults.