Michael Robotham Books In Order - Books In Order (2024)

1. The Suspect (2004)
2. Lost / The Drowning Man (2005)
3. Shatter / The Sleep of Reason (2008)
4. Bleed for Me (2010)
5. The Wreckage (2011)
6. Say You’re Sorry (2012)
7. Watching You (2013)
8. Close Your Eyes (2015)
9. The Other Wife (2018)

1. Good Girl, Bad Girl (2019)
2. When She Was Good (2020)

1. The Night Ferry (2007)
2. Bombproof (2008)
3. Life or Death (2014)
4. The Secrets She Keeps (2017)
5. When You Are Mine (2021)

1. If I Tell You… I’ll Have to Kill You (2013)

• The Suspect(2004)

• Lost / The Drowning Man(2005)

• Shatter / The Sleep of Reason(2008)

• Bleed for Me(2010)

• The Wreckage(2011)

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• Say You’re Sorry(2012)

• Watching You(2013)

• Close Your Eyes(2015)

• The Other Wife(2018)

• Good Girl, Bad Girl(2019)

• When She Was Good(2020)

• The Night Ferry(2007)

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  Down To The Wire

• Bombproof(2008)

• Life or Death(2014)

• The Secrets She Keeps(2017)

• If I Tell You… I’ll Have to Kill You(2013)

The Suspect

London psychiatrist Joseph O’Loughlin seems to have the perfect life. He has a beautiful wife, an adoring daughter, and a thriving practice to which he brings great skill and compassion. But he’s also facing a future dimmed by Parkinson’s disease. And when he’s called in on a gruesome murder investigation, he discovers that the victim is someone he once knew. Unable to tell the police what he knows, O’Loughlin tells one small lie which turns out to be the biggest mistake of his life. Suddenly, he’s caught in a web of his own making.

Lost / The Drowning Man

Suspect, Michael Robotham’s lightning paced debut Entertainment Weekly was universally hailed as taut and fast moving Washington Post first novel. Now Robotham delivers a first rate psychological thriller in Lost, a worthy follow up to Suspect. On a cold London night, homicide detective Vincent Ruiz is fished out of the Thames with a bullet in his leg and no memory of the circ*mstances surrounding the shooting. In his pocket is a photograph of Mickey Carlyle, a seven year old girl kidnapped three years before and presumed dead. It s anybody s guess what Ruiz was up to especially when a blood spattered boat discovered nearby makes it clear that Ruiz was not the sole casualty. But with Mickey s killer convicted and behind bars, no one wants the case reopened. Ruiz s only hope of unraveling the puzzle is to retrace his steps and re create the night of the shooting. Under investigation by his colleagues and accused of faking amnesia, Ruiz turns to Joe O’Loughlin, hoping that the psychologist can help unlock his memory. Step by step, the pieces come together, revealing a twisted trail of grief, vengeance, and the search for redemption. A riveting thriller, Lost combines a fast paced plot with searing insights into human psychology.

Shatter / The Sleep of Reason

In Michael Robotham’s latest thriller, psychologist Joe O Loughlin the appealing hero of Suspect tries to prevent a suicide and finds himself locked in a deadly duel with a very clever killer.

Joe O’Loughlin is on familiar territory standing on a bridge high above a flooded gorge, trying to stop a distraught woman from jumping. She is naked, wearing only high heel shoes, sobbing into a cell phone. Suddenly, she turns to him and whispers, You don t understand, and lets go. Joe is shattered by the suicide and haunted by his failure to save the woman, until her teenage daughter finds him and reveals that her mother would never have committed suicide not like that. She was terrified of heights. Compelled to investigate, Joe is soon obsessed with discovering who was on the other end of the phone. What could have driven her to commit such a desperate act? Whose voice? What evil?

Having devoted his career to repairing damaged minds, Joe must now confront an adversary who tears them apart: a man who searches for the cracks in a person s psyche and claws his fingers inside, destroying what makes them whole.

With pitch perfect dialogue, believable characters, and intriguingly unpredictable plot twists, Shatter is guaranteed to keep even the most avid thriller readers riveted long into the night.

Bleed for Me

She’s standing at the front door. Covered in blood. Is she the victim of a crime? Or the perpetrator? A teenage girl Sienna, a troubled friend of his daughter comes to Joe O’Loughlin’s door one night. She is terrorized, incoherent and covered in blood. The police find Sienna’s father, a celebrated former cop, murdered in the home he shared with Sienna. Tests confirm that it’s his blood on Sienna. She says she remembers nothing. Joe O’Loughlin is a psychologist with troubles of his own. His marriage is coming to an end and his daughter will barely speak to him. He tries to help Sienna, hoping that if he succeeds it will win back his daughter’s affection. But Sienna is unreachable, unable to mourn her father’s death or to explain it. Investigators take aim at Sienna. O’Loughlin senses something different is happening, something subterranean and terrifying to Sienna. It may be something in her mind. Or it may be something real. Someone real. Someone capable of the most grim and gruesome murder, and willing to kill again if anyone gets too close. His newest thriller is further evidence that Michael Robotham is, as David Baldacci has said, ‘the real deal we only hope he will write faster.’

The Wreckage

An international thriller based on one of the bigest bank heists in history. Billions of dollars are missing from Iraqi banks, and journalist Luca Terracini will risk everything to discover where it is. His Iraqi American background has made it easier for him to infiltrate the darkest corners of the war, but death of his beloved Nicola in a suicide bombing has made him reckless. He has nothing left to lose. In pursuit of the money, he meets UN representative Daniela Garner, who seems to know more about the heist than anyone else. She’s a valuable asset in Baghdad where the possibility of an explosion lurks at every checkpoint. Luca’s investigation proves volatile as well, and as he gets closer to the missing money, his actions begin to reverberate around the world. In London, Richard North, a top tier international banker and the one person who might be able to explain where the money has gone, vanishes. The manhunt for him will get Luca evicted from Iraq, separated from Daniela, and possibly end both his investigation and his life. As usual, it’s all about the money: who has it, who’s lost it, and who’s ultimately going to pay, as clandestine agents emerge from the shadows and powerful nations seek to control information and bury secrets, whatever the cost. 2009

The Night Ferry

A young policewoman breaks all the rules to get to the bottom of the mysterious death of the best friend she betrayed in this stunning follow up thriller from the author of Suspect and Lost.

Ali Barba, a Sikh detective with the Metropolitan Police, is recovering from injuries sustained in the line of duty when she receives a letter from her estranged friend, Cate, imploring her to come to their high school reunion. Alarmed by the urgent tone of the note, and eager to make amends for her unforgivable past behavior, Ali goes to the reunion. Cate is pregnant, but before Ali has the chance to congratulate her, Cate hurriedly whispers, They want to take my baby. You have to stop them. It is the only hint of Cate’s troubles Ali manages to get. As they are leaving the reunion, Cate and her husband are run down by a car and killed. The mystery darkens when it is discovered that Cate had faked her pregnancy by tying a pillow underneath her dress.

All Ali has to go on is a file in Cate s desk that contains two ultrasound pictures, letters from a fertility clinic, and various papers that seem to confirm the unborn baby s existence. As she puts together the pieces, her search takes her to Amsterdam and into the company of some very unsavory people on both sides of the Channel who’ll do anything to thwart her investigation.

A gripping thriller and a searing tale of the search for redemption, The Night Ferry is Michael Robotham s finest novel yet.

Bombproof

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