Michael Robotham

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?

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?

I close my eyes and feel my heart begin racingSomeone is comingThey''re going to find meA mother and her teenage daughter are found murdered in a remote farmhouse, one defiled by multiple stab wounds and the other left lying like Sleeping Beauty waiting for her Prince. Reluctantly, clinical psychologist Joe O''Loughlin is drawn into the investigation when a former student, calling himself ''the Mindhunter'', jeopardises the police inquiry by leaking details to the media and stirring up public anger.With no shortage of suspects and tempers beginning to fray, Joe discover links between these murders and a series of brutal attacks where his victims have been choked unconscious and had the letter ''A'' carved into their foreheads.As the case becomes ever more complex, nothing is quite what it seems and soon Joe''s fate, and that of those closest to him, become intertwined with a merciless, unpredictable killer...

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

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?

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.

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.

My name is Piper Hadley and I went missing on the last Saturday of the summer holidays three years ago. When Piper and her friend Tash disappeared, there was a huge police search, but they were never found. Now Tash, reaching breaking point at the abuse their captor has inflicted on them, has escaped, promising to come back for Piper. Clinical psychologist Joe O'Loughlin and his stalwart companion...

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 ...

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.

Un prestigioso abogado es acusado de asesinato y nadie parece creer en su inocencia.Una de las pacientes del Joseph OLoughlin, un reconocido psiquiatra londinense, ha sido brutalmente asesinada. Una carta y varias llamadas telefonicas que la joven realizo e OLoughlin antes de morir son las pistas que lo convierten en el principal sospechoso ante la policia. A medida que el caso se complica, su familia y amigos empiezan a darle la espalda y dejan de confirar en el. Acorralado, OLoughlin huye para investigar cual es el motivo por el que todo se derrumba a su alrededor.

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?

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 sabe que la pequeña Mickey Carlyle está muerta y que hay un hombre en la cárcel cumpliendo condena por ello. Todos menos el inspector londinense Vincent Ruiz, que no acaba de creerse que la resolucion del caso sea tan sencilla. Pero cuando aparece flotando en el Tamesis, como unico superviviente de una barcaza, sin ningun recuerdo sobre lo sucedido y con una foto de la niña, las cosas empiezan a complicarse...

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. Alli, Cate le da la noticia de que esta 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 aun mayor al descubrirse que Cate habia fingido el embarazo mediante una almohada que llevaba atada bajo su vestido. Las unicas pistas con las que Alisha ha de empezar su investigacion se encuentran en una carpeta hallada en la mesa de Cate que contiene dos ecografias, cartas de una clinica de fertilidad y diversos documentos que parecen confirmar la existencia de un bebe nonato. Con un monton de preguntas y ninguna respuesta, Alisha empieza una pesquisa que la llevara de las calles del East End de Londres al Barrio Rojo de Amsterdam, sumergiendose en un submundo de trafico sexual, esclavitud y explotacion.

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.

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 policia 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 Tamesis, con una bala alojada en la pierna y una fotografia de Mickey en el bolsillo, los mismos que dan por cerrado el caso y que no entienden la obstinacion de Ruiz empiezan a sospechar de la actuacion del policia. Y todava mas cuando cerca hay una barcaza con unas cuantas victimas en cubiera y Ruiz no es capaz de dar ninguna explicacion. Es mas: su pistola de reglamento ha desaparecido y con ella, su memoria. Ante semejante embrollo, el inspector no tendra mas remedio que volver sobre sus pasos y revivir la noche en que sucedio todo. Los hechos, y no los recuerdos, son los que le descubriran lo que realmente le sucedio a la pequeña Mickey Carlyle y lo que le paso a el mismo.

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 u