The Sixth Soul: Brilliant page turner - a dark serial killer thriller with a twist

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title The Sixth Soul: Brilliant page turner - a dark serial killer thriller with a twist
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Mark Roberts
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:368
Dimensions(mm): Height 198,Width 129
Category/GenreCrime and mystery
ISBN/Barcode 9780857897893
ClassificationsDewey:823.92
Audience
General
Edition Main

Publishing Details

Publisher Atlantic Books
Imprint Corvus
NZ Release Date 21 February 2018
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

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.

Author Biography

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.

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