Mark Roberts delves into the darker aspects of the human psyche, often setting his narratives against gritty urban backdrops. His style is marked by suspense and meticulously crafted characters that resonate with realism. Roberts focuses on complex crimes and the moral quandaries that test the boundaries of right and wrong. His works offer compelling reading for those who seek thrilling stories with profound psychological insight.
'You can't really revise for English - can you?'Students often tell teacher Mark Roberts that they find it hard to revise for A Level English Literature. This guide will show you why that is a common misconception, and that all you need is an organised, step-by-step approach to your English revision to get the best grade possible.
This essential new book answers nine key questions about how teachers and schools can best tackle boys' academic underperformance. Mark Roberts provides clear answers about how teachers can tackle 'The Boy Question'.
Dealing with poor behaviour is exhausting and stressful. But it doesn’t have to be! In this exciting new book, bestselling author Mark Roberts shares the secrets of how behaviour whispering can improve 100 common classroom problems, from the student who is always late to the class that is unsettled by a wasp.
A dark, disturbing, compulsively page-turning thriller featuring Herod, a killer of unimaginable cruelty, with an unthinkable desire 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.
When a 9-year-old is left to die inside a burning car on a sink estate in Peckham, DCI David Rosen is drafted in to investigate. The young boy has been severely burned, and is now fighting for his life. As Rosen and his team begin to scour the crime scene for forensic evidence, they discover something chilling; a graffiti image of a sinister eye, drawn in exquisite detail above the site of the wreckage - and behind it, a series of mysterious markings, etched into the wall. Could the markings represent a secret code left by the killer - a code that will hold the key to the investigation?
A vigilante killer spreads terror in Merseyside in the third gripping thriller starring Liverpool DCI Eve Clay.
One morning. Two crimes. Three victims and counting... A new case for Liverpool detective, DCI Eve Clay.
Eve Clay goes undercover to hunt a killer who preys on women on dating sites. The fifth thriller in the Eve Clay series set in Liverpool.
HIS LIFE WAS DEVOTED TO ART. HIS DEATH WAS A MASTERPIECE. Leonard Lawson was a respected professor of medieval art. He lived a quiet life in a suburb of Liverpool with his grown-up daughter. As far as anyone knew, he had no enemies. Louise Lawson watched her father die. Before she blacked out, she saw his body mutilated and deformed, twisted into a hellish parody of the artworks he loved. Investigating a killer bringing medieval horror to Merseyside, DCI Eve Clay must overcome her own demons to unpick the dark symbolism of the crime scene. A fifty-year silence has been broken – with a message written in blood...
DCI Eve Clay is called to investigate a brutal murder of a family, their bodies arranged in a mysterious pattern. As a blizzard rages outside, she races against time to uncover the killer's identity, who seems to have a connection to Eve's buried past. The tension rises as Liverpool waits.