David Roberts (novelist)
David Roberts | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1944 |
| Died | 18 December 2025 (aged 80–81) |
| Occupations | Editor and novelist |
David Roberts (1944 – 18 December 2025) was an English editor and novelist.
Roberts worked for several years as a book editor at Chatto and Windus, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, and Michael O'Mara Books. Since 2000, he had been a full-time writer, best known for a series of crime novels set during the late 1930s, and featuring the joint adventures of Lord Edward Corinth and Verity Browne. The novels use actual historical events as a backdrop and there is an Author's Note at the back of the books briefly outlining what happened to the historical characters subsequently.
Publishers Weekly described his novels as "well-researched" and "first-rate fun".[1][2]
He died aged 81 on 18 December 2025.[3]
Bibliography
Lord Edward Corinth and Verity Browne series:
- Sweet Poison (2001)
- Bones of the Buried (2001)
- Hollow Crown (2002)
- Dangerous Sea (2003)
- The More Deceived (2004)
- A Grave Man (2005)
- The Quality of Mercy (2006)
- Something Wicked (2007)
- No More Dying (2008)
- Sweet Sorrow (2009)
References
- ^ "Dangerous Sea: A Lord Edward Corinth and Verity Browne Mystery". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved 14 July 2016.
- ^ "Hollow Crown: A Lord Edward Corinth and Verity Browne Mystery". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved 14 July 2016.
- ^ Brown, Lauren (7 January 2026). "Author, editor and 'true man of letters' David Roberts dies aged 81". The Bookseller. Retrieved 7 January 2026.