Books by Michael Robotham and Complete Book Reviews

Michael Robotham, Author . Doubleday $24.95 (368p) ISBN 978-0-385-50861-2
Joe O'Loughlin, a London psychologist, loves his job and loves his family—wife Julianne and eight-year-old daughter Charlie—even more in Australian author Robotham's well-written, if somewhat convoluted, debut suspense novel. O
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Michael Robotham, Author . Doubleday $24.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-385-50866-7
Det. Insp. Vincent Ruiz (a supporting character in Robotham's debut, Suspect ) is hauled out of the Thames with a bullet wound in his leg and no memory of a shooting, let alone how he wound up in the water in Robotham's fine, moody second...
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Michael Robotham, Author . Doubleday $24.95 (376p) ISBN 978-0-385-51790-4
At the start of the sharply plotted third thriller from Australian author Robotham (after Suspect and Lost ), London police detective Alisha Barba, a Sikh woman who's recovering from a back injury incurred in the line of duty in Lost ("Afte
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Michael Robotham, Author . Doubleday $24.95 (433p) ISBN 978-0-385-51791-1
Winner of Australia’s Ned Kelly Award for Best Novel, Robotham’s compelling fourth thriller (after The Night Ferry ) finds clinical psychologist Joe O’Loughlin and his family in Somerset, where he teaches part-time at the...
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Michael Robotham. Little, Brown, $24.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-316-12640-3
In Robotham's high-octane fifth thriller to be published in the U.S. (after Shatter), foreign correspondent Luca Terracini is covering a series of bank heists in Baghdad that have resulted in the loss of half a billion U.S. dollars over four years....
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Michael Robotham. Little, Brown/Mulholland, $25.99 (432p) ISBN 978-0-316-12638-0
When 14-year-old Sienna Hegarty appears at the back door of psychologist Joe O’Loughlin’s estranged wife, dazed and dripping blood, O’Loughlin knows he must help in this taut thriller from Robotham, the fifth in this U.K. series but the sixth to be...
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Michael Robotham. Little, Brown/Mulholland, $24.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-316-22124-5
In Ned Kelly Award–winner Robotham’s taut seventh psychological thriller featuring psychologist Joe O’Loughlin and retired cop Vincent Ruiz (after 2011’s The Wreckage), the Oxford police approach Joe for help in profiling a suspect, Augie Shaw....
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Michael Robotham. Little, Brown/Mulholland, $26 (432p) ISBN 978-0-316-25200-3
In Robotham’s disturbing eighth thriller featuring London-based psychologist Joe O’Loughlin and retired detective Vincent Ruiz (after 2012’s Say You’re Sorry), O’Loughlin has a troubled new patient, Marnie Logan. Marnie has a slew of problems—her...
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Michael Robotham. Little, Brown/Mulholland, $26 (432p) ISBN 978-0-316-25205-8
Early in this so-so standalone from Australian author Robotham, Audie Palmer escapes from a Texas prison with only a day remaining on his 10-year sentence. A decade earlier, authorities named Audie Palmer as an accomplice in a high-profile armored-ca
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Michael Robotham. LB/Mulholland, $26 (400p) ISBN 978-0-316-26794-6
In Robotham’s gripping 10th thriller featuring British psychologist Joe O’Loughlin and retired detective Vincent Ruiz (after 2014’s Watching You), brusque Det. Chief Supt. Veronica Cray wants Joe’s opinion on the murders of Elizabeth Crowe and her...
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Michael Robotham. Scribner, $26 (384p) ISBN 978-1-5011-7031-7
Set in London, this emotionally charged domestic thriller from Edgar-finalist Robotham (Life or Death) sets up dueling narratives between part-time supermarket shelf stocker Agatha and her frequent customer, Meg. Both women are in their third...
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Michael Robotham. Scribner, $27 (368p) ISBN 978-1-982103-60-6
Two major cases preoccupy forensic psychologist Cyrus Haven, the hero of this haunting psychological thriller from Edgar finalist Robotham (The Secrets She Keeps). First, the Nottingham, England, police have enlisted him in their effort to catch the
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Michael Robotham. Scribner, $26 (352p) ISBN 978-1-9821-0363-7
At the start of Edgar-finalist Robotham’s twisty, emotionally involving sequel to 2019’s Good Girl, Bad Girl, British forensic psychologist Cyrus Haven, teenager Evie Cormac’s therapist, seeks out Special Constable Sacha Hopewell in Cornwall. Seven...
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Michael Robotham. Scribner, $24.99 (368p) ISBN 978-1-9821-6645-8
In this nail-biter from Edgar finalist Robotham (When She Was Good), Police Constable Philomena McCarthy’s devotion to duty and empathy for victimized women threaten to make her time with the Southwark Police short after she and her partner, Anishi...
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Michael Robotham. Scribner, $27.99 (352p) ISBN 978-1-9821-6648-9
In British author Robotham’s fine third Cyrus Haven novel (after 2020’s When She Was Good), forensic psychologist Cyrus consults with police when a man and his daughter are found murdered in their home. After the disappearance of a second victim,...
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Michael Robotham. Scribner, $28.99 (336p) ISBN 978-1-6680-3099-8
Robotham’s stirring fourth mystery featuring forensic psychologist Haven (after Lying Beside You) is the best yet. Four years earlier, Haven was called in to interview teenager Evie Cormac, whom Nottinghamshire police had found hiding in a house...
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