Book 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...
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.
