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International Emmy nominated writer Mark Boutros offers a guide to creating characters who are engaging, emotionally driven, and memorable. With experience writing comedy, drama, and novels, Mark shares a mixture of theory, exercises, and pitfalls, getting you thinking about the questions you should always have in your mind during character creation. This is an invaluable tool for beginner and experienced writers.

A mutilated body apparently washed up on a windswept beach. A violent criminal gang preys on moped riders across the area. A teenage girl is desperate to escape sexual exploitation. It’s a tough introduction to Merseyside for Detective Inspector April Decent, who’s just arrived from her native Yorkshire. Together with new colleague Skeeter Warlock, Decent quickly discovers there’s a sinister link between them all, one that will bring them face-to-face with some uncomfortable home truths.

379 AD: Thracia has fallen to the Gothic horde. With the ashes of Adrianople still swirling in the air, the Eastern Roman Empire is in turmoil. The emperor is dead, the throne lies empty and the remaining fragments of the army are few and scattered. Numerius Vitellius Pavo, now Tribunus of the XI Claudia, tries to hold his patchwork ranks together amidst the storm. One of the few legions to have survived the disaster at Adrianople, the Claudia do what they can to keep alive the dying flame of hope.

B2B sales has evolved from a product-focused transactional approach to a consultative one placing emphasis on asking the right questions, understanding the customer’s needs, identifying their issues and pitching the right solution to solve them.

A local fisherman finds the body of a missing American archaeologist. Detective Inspector Betancourt, of the Singapore Marine Police, is first on the scene. Something doesn't quite add up. He finds out that the archaeologist, Richard Fulbright, was close to deciphering the previously-untranslatable script on a pre-colonial relic known as the Singapore Stone. This was no accidental drowning.

A body lies amongst the undergrowth in Mildenheath Woods. His hands are bound behind his back, and he's been killed execution-style. But the victim isn't a gangland kingpin: he's a well-liked young man, never in any trouble, who had his whole life ahead of him. But as Jack Culverhouse and Wendy Knight begin to dig deeper into what happened, a shocking new truth comes to light. Was the victim quite as innocent as he seemed?

It's an everyday Friday night out near Liverpool. A few too many drinks. A few harsh words said, but no one was hurt. All easily forgotten. Except he didn't forget. Their threats. How they made him feel ... A young woman goes missing. She's done it before, but Detective Inspector April Decent senses this time it's serious. Can she convince her colleagues she's right before it's too late?

Two dead bodies are found buried beneath undergrowth just outside Mildenheath. The race is on to uncover their identities and catch their killers. When two young men tell police they’ve escaped with their lives from a local brothel where they were kept as male prostitutes, DCI Jack Culverhouse and DS Wendy Knight are left facing a case like no other before. But as their investigation into the people traffickers and kidnappers gets deeper, they realize the ringleaders will stop at nothing to evade justice.

Former police detective Steph Grant has moved to the picturesque coastal Suffolk town of Southwold to rebuild her life following a bereavement, and gets a job working as the receptionist at a local sixth form college. But when a student is found murdered in the music block, Steph is convinced to take up a new role as a civilian detective by her former boss, Chief Inspector Philip Hale.

A trail of death. A web of corruption. The ultimate betrayal. A series of armed robberies on local petrol stations leaves Mildenheath CID chasing their tails. But things are about to get a whole lot worse. When an elderly woman is killed during an armed raid on her jewelry shop, Knight and Culverhouse realize one of their own is involved - a police officer. With the future of Mildenheath CID at stake and the lives of their loved ones under threat, time is running out fast. As they begin to investigate the web of corruption, they discover just how deep it runs - and how close to home.

Eighteen year-old Darcy Woodard appears to have it all – intelligence, good looks and artistic gifts. His teachers adore him, as does former policewoman Steph Grant, who is now the receptionist at Darcy's college. But beneath the surface - all is not as it seems.

As Jake prepares for his wedding to the woman of his dreams, he never suspects his last night as a single man would lead to being locked up in Hell.... On his way home from his stag night, Jake is involved in a hit and run that leaves him not only fighting for his life but for his sanity. As his fiancée stands vigil by his hospital bed, Jake slips deeper into his unconscious. While stuck in the coma, Jake is more aware of the unreality he has faced since being a child. He is stuck in a nightmare. One that has plagued him his whole life.