Michael Robotham

ue clase de idiota se escaparia de una prision el dia antes de cumplir una condena de diez anos? Audie Palmer ha pasado los ultimos diez anos de su vida en prision por un delito de robo a mano armada en el que cuatro personas resultaron muertas, incluyendo a dos miembros de la banda de asaltantes. Siete millones de dolares desaparecieron en dicho robo y todo el mundo cree que Audie sabe donde esta el dinero. Durante diez anos, Audie ha sido golpeado, apunalado, estrangulado y amenazado por los guardias de la carcel, por el resto de presos y por mafiosos, todos ellos en busqueda de la respuesta a una sola pregunta; donde estan escondidos los siete millones de dolares que desaparecieron hace casi una decada? Y de repente, Audie desaparece el dia antes de cumplir su condena. En ese momento comienza la frenetica y desesperada busqueda de Audie, pero lo que nadie puede imaginar es que el no esta huyendo. Audie esta intentando salvar una vida… y no se trata solo de la suya. / Why would a man serving a long prison sentence escape the day before he's due to be released? Audie Palmer has spent nearly ten years in a Texas prison after pleading guilty to a robbery in which four people died and seven million dollars went missing. Everyone asks the same question: where's the money?

A naked woman in red high-heeled shoes is perched on the edge of Clifton Suspension Bridge with her back pressed to the safety fence, weeping into a mobile phone. Clinical psychologist Joseph O'Loughlin is only feet away, desperately trying to talk her down. She whispers, you don't understand,' and jumps. Later, Joe has a visitor - the woman's teenage daughter, a runaway from boarding school. She refuses to believe that her mother would have jumped off the bridge - not only would she not commit suicide, she is terrified of heights. Joe wants to believe her, but what would drive a woman to such a desperate act? Whose voice? What evil?

Joe O'Loughlin from Michael Robotham's bestselling debut The Suspect returns to face a terrifying opponent...A naked woman in red high-heeled shoes is perched on the edge of Clifton Suspension Bridge with her back pressed to the safety fence, weeping into a mobile phone. Clinical psychologist Joseph O'Loughlin is only feet away, desperately trying to talk her down. She whispers, you don't understand,' and jumps. Later, Joe has a visitor - the woman's teenage daughter, a runaway from boarding school. She refuses to believe that her mother would have jumped off the bridge - not only would she not commit suicide, she is terrified of heights. Joe wants to believe her, but what would drive a woman to such a desperate act? Whose voice? What evil?

A naked woman in red high-heeled shoes is perched on the edge of Clifton Suspension Bridge with her back pressed to the safety fence, weeping into a mobile phone. Clinical psychologist Joseph O'Loughlin is only feet away, desperately trying to talk her down. She whispers, 'you don't understand,' and jumps. Later, Joe has a visitor - the woman's teenage daughter, a runaway from boarding school. She refuses to believe that her mother would have jumped off the bridge - not only would she not commit suicide, she is terrified of heights. Joe wants to believe her, but what would drive a woman to such a desperate act? Whose voice? What evil?

When Sienna Hegarty turns up at his family home one night, covered in blood and frozen in shock, psychologist Joe O'Loughlin finds himself drawn deep into her world, trying to unearth the dark secrets her mind has buried. The police find a major piece of the puzzle at Sienna's house: her father, a retired cop, is face-down in a pool of his own blood, his throat slashed and his skull caved in. The blood covering Sienna was his. The 14-year-old can't remember what happened that night but, at the same time, Sienna doesn't mourn her father's death. What was going on behind closed doors in the Hegarty household? Is Sienna guilty of brutal murder? And what part has her charismatic teacher Gordon Ellis played in this blood-soaked event?

Ray Hegarty, a highly respected former detective, lies dead in his daughter Sienna s bedroom. She is found covered in his blood. Everything points to her guilt, but psychologist Joe O Loughlin isn t convinced. Fourteen-year-old Sienna is Joe s daughter s best friend ? Joe has watched her grow up and seen the troubled look in her eyes. Against the advice of the police, he launches his own investigation, embarking upon a hunt that will lead him to a predatory schoolteacher; a conspiracy of silence and a race hate trial that is captivating the nation. With dark psychological twists and heart-stopping tension, Bleed For Me is a page-turner thriller and undoubtedly Robotham s best yet.

Joseph O'Loughlin appears to have the perfect life - a beautiful wife, a loving daughter and a successful career as a clinical psychologist. But even the most flawless existence is only a loose thread away from unravelling. All it takes is a murdered girl, a troubled young patient and the biggest lie of his life.When a young woman is found dead by a London canal with multiple stab wounds - all of them self-inflicted - the police ask Joe for help. Are they dealing with a murder or a suicide? Who is the victim? The brutalised body he views at the mortuary turns out to be someone he knows - Catherine Mary McBride, a nurse and former colleague . . . At the same time, he is grappling with a troubled young patient, Bobby Moran, who is haunted by terrible headaches and violent dreams that are becoming more real.Caught in a complex web of deceit and obsessed by images of the slain girl, Joe embarks upon a search that will take him into the darkest recesses of the human mind.

La detective sij Alisha Barba aún se está recuperando de las heridas sufridas en cumplimiento de la obligación cuando recibe una carta de Cate, una antigua amiga, pidiéndole que se reúnan en el instituto en que estudiaron juntas. Alisha, movida por el tono de urgencia de la misiva y por su deseo de recuperar la amistad perdida, no duda en acudir la cita. Allí, Cate le da la noticia de que está embarazada, pero antes de que Alisha pueda felicitarla, le alerta de que alguien quiere llevarse a su futuro hijo y le pide que le ayude. Estos temores parecen confirmarse justo al salir del instituto, ya que un coche atropella y mata a Cate y su marido. El misterio que rodea el caso se hace aún mayor al descubrirse que Cate había fingido el embarazo mediante una almohada que llevaba atada bajo su vestido. Las únicas pistas con las que Alisha ha de empezar su investigación se encuentran en una carpeta hallada en la mesa de Cate que contiene dos ecografías, cartas de una clínica de fertilidad y diversos documentos que parecen confirmar la existencia de un bebé nonato. Con un montón de preguntas y ninguna respuesta, Alisha empieza una pesquisa que la llevará de las calles del East End de Londres al Barrio Rojo de Amsterdam, sumergiéndose en un submundo de tráfico sexual, esclavitud y explotación.

Vincent Ruiz is lucky to be alive. A bullet in the leg, another through the hand, he is discovered clinging to a buoy in the River Thames, losing blood and consciousness fast. It takes six days for him to come out of his coma, and when he does, his nightmare is only just beginning. Because Vincent has no recollection of what happened, and nobody believes him. A mile away from his body, a boat was found covered in blood - Vincent's and that of three others. Forensics say at least one of them must be dead. Vincent, a police detective, had signed his service pistol out of the station armoury, despite being on leave. Many murder suspects fake amnesia, and the investigating team are not sure this case is any different...The only clue is a picture in his pocket, a photograph of a young girl, Mickey Carlyle, who disappeared three years ago. And though Mickey is presumed dead, Vincent has the nagging doubt that she is alive and in terrible danger...

Joseph O'Loughlin appears to have the perfect life - a beautiful wife, a loving daughter and a successful career as a clinical psychologist. But nothing can be taken for granted. Even the most flawless existence is only a loose thread away from unravelling. All it takes is a murdered girl, a troubled young patient and the biggest lie of his life. Caught in a complex web of deceit and haunted by images of the slain girl, he embarks upon a search that will take him from London to Liverpool and into the darkest recesses of the human mind. Ultimately, he will risk everything to unmask the killer and save his family.

Joseph O´Loughlin parece tener la vida perfecta: una mujer hermosa, una hija que lo adora y una carrera exitosa como psiquiatra en la ciudad de Londres. Sin emabrgo, un día descubre con estupor que una de sus pacientes ha sido asesinada. La joven, muerta en circunstancias muy violentas, le escribió una carta antes de morir y le hizo varias llamadas; todo ello le convierte en el principal sospechoso ante los ojos de la policía. El caso se va complicando a medida que se van descubriendo nuevas pruebas, y poco a poco su familia y amigos le van dando la espalda y dejan de confíar en él. Acorralado, O´Loughlin decide huir para poder investigar él mismo por qué razón todo se derrumba a su alrededor.Con una clase y un estilo impecables, el escritor británico Michael Robotham ha construido en ésta, su primera novela, una trama que sobresalta, intriga y le pone el corazón en un puño al lector con una sutileza poco habitual.

¿Qué clase de idiota se escaparía de una prisión el día antes de cumplir una condena de diez años? Michael Robotham ha creado a un gran héroe indefenso, un criminal honorable, envuelto en un gran misterio y preparado para guiar al lector hacia una persecución memorable. Audie Palmer ha pasado los últimos diez años de su vida en prisión por un delito de robo armado, en el que, cuatro personas resultaron muertas, incluyendo a dos miembros de la banda de asaltantes. Siete millones de dólares desaparecieron en dicho robo y todo el mundo cree que Audie sabe en dónde está el dinero.Durante diez años, Audie ha sido golpeado, apuñalado, estrangulado y amenazado por los guardias de la cárcel, por el resto de presos y por mafiosos, todos ellos en búsqueda de la respuesta a una sola pregunta; ¿dónde están escondidos los siete millones de dólares que desaparecieron hace casi una década? Pero de repente, Audie desaparece el día antes de cumplir su condena. En ese momento, comienza la frenética y desesperada búsqueda de Audie, lo que nadie se puede imaginar es que él no está huyendo. Audie está intentando salvar una vida? y no se trata solo de la de él mismo.

Alisha Barba's dreams of being a detective were shattered when a murder suspect broke her back across a brick wall. Now on her feet again, with her police career in limbo, she receives a message from an old school friend, Cate Beaumont, who is eight months pregnant and in trouble. On the night they arrange to meet, Cate is mown down by a car that kills her husband instantly. As paramedics fight to save her life they discover there is no baby. Her pregnancy is an elaborate lie, a cruel deception. Why? What happened? As Alisha sets out to answer these questions she is drawn deeper and deeper into a dangerous quest that will take her from the East End of London to Amsterdam's red light district and into a murky underworld of sex trafficking, slavery and exploitation. A gripping thriller, with twists at every turn, The Night Ferry is Michael Robotham's finest novel yet.

Todo el mundo está convencido de que la pequeña Mickey Carlyle -secuestrada hace siete años y cuyo cadáver nunca se halló- está muerta y que hay un hombre en la cárcel cumpliendo condena por su asesinato. Todo el mundo excpeto el inspector Vincent Ruiz de la policía londinense, quien no acaba de creerse que todo sea tan sencillo. Cuando una fria noche encuentran al inspector Ruiz agarrado a una boya en el Támesis, con una bala alojada en la pierna y una fotografía de Mickey en el bolsillo, los mismos que dan por cerrado el caso y que no entienden la obstinación de Ruiz empiezan a sospechar de la actuación del policía. Y todavá más cuando cerca hay una barcaza con unas cuantas víctimas en cubiera y Ruiz no es capaz de dar ninguna explicación. Es más: su pistola de reglamento ha desaparecido y con ella, su memoria. Ante semejante embrollo, el inspector no tendrá más remedio que volver sobre sus pasos y revivir la noche en que sucedió todo. Los hechos, y no los recuerdos, son los que le descubrirán lo que realmente le sucedió a la pequeña Mickey Carlyle y lo que le pasó a él mismo.

The compelling new psychological thriller that will break your heart into tiny pieces, from world-renowned author MICHAEL ROBOTHAM.

The Shawshank Redemption meets No Country for Old Men in the breathtaking new novel from international bestseller Michael Robotham -- already receiving rave reviews, this is the most original, compelling thriller you'll read all year. Why would a man escape from prison the day before he's due to be released? Audie Palmer has spent a decade in prison for an armed robbery in which four people died, including two of the gang. Seven million dollars has never been recovered and everybody believes that Audie knows where the money is. For ten years he has been beaten, stabbed, throttled and threatened almost daily by prison guards, inmates and criminal gangs, who all want to answer this same question, but suddenly Audie vanishes, the day before he's due to be released. Everybody wants to find Audie, but he's not running. Instead he's trying to save a life ...and not just his own.

In London, ex-cop Vincent Ruiz rescues a young woman from a violent boyfriend but wakes next morning to find that he's been set up and robbed. As he tracks down the thieves, he discovers the boyfriend's tortured body and learns that powerful men are looking for the girl. What did Holly Knight steal that is so important to them? Meanwhile in Baghdad, the bank robbery capital of the world, billions of dollars in reconstruction funds has gone missing and Pulitzer prize-winning Journalist Luca Terracini is trying to 'follow the money'. The dangerous trail will lead him to London where he teams up with Vincent Ruiz and together they investigate the disappearance of an international banker and a mysterious 'black hole' in the bank's accounts.

Marnie Logan often feels like she's being watched. Nothing she can quite put her finger on - a whisper of breath on the back of her neck, or a shadow in the corner of her eye - and now her life is frozen. Her husband Daniel has been missing for more than a year. Depressed and increasingly desperate, she seeks the help of clinical psychologist Joe O'Loughlin. Joe is concerned by Marnie's reluctance to talk about the past, but then she discovers a book packed with pictures, interviews with friends, former teachers, old flames and workmates Daniel was preparing for Marnie's birthday. It was supposed to be a celebration of her life. But it's not the story anyone was expecting ...