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Michael Robotham
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ShatterShatter New07 Feb 08
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New First British Edition Sphere (2008)
Buy at Amazon.co.uk Shatter
A naked woman in red high-heeled shoes is poised 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 never commit suicide, she is also afraid of heights.
Joe wants to believe her, but how could a woman be driven to such a desperate act? And who might drive her to it?
A terrifying psychological thriller, Shatter delves into the darkest recesses of the human mind. It is Michael Robotham’s most powerful novel yet.
‘Michael Robotham deserves to be classed among the very best of British thriller writers’ Peter James
Praise for Michael Robotham
`Credible characters and clever plot make an absorbing read by a welcome new name in the genre’ Sunday Telegraph
`A highly effective thriller ... Well-engineered plot, with gathering horrors heightened...A gripper’ Literary Review
‘This is high-energy drama that’s deftly done, with plenty of guessing games and nail-biting tension full of fine characterisation, brilliantly researched detail and subtle humour’ Daily Mirror


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First British Edition Sphere (2007)
Buy at Amazon.co.uk The Night Ferry
DC Alisha Barber reluctantly accepts an invitation to her school reunion, knowing that she will spend the evening feeling uneasy and inadequate and ducking the majority of her former classmates. But, troubled by a letter she has received, she is determined to rind out why, after years of silence, Cate Beaurnont is pleading for her help.
Eight months pregnant and in danger, Cate is anxious and on edge. Before she and Alisha can be reacquainted the evening is tragically cut short when a speeding car appears from nowhere knocking down Cate, and killing her husband outright. As Alisha cradles her dying friend amid the chaos and carnage, she discovers the pregnancy was a lie. There was no baby.
Desperate to know why Cate would create such an elaborate deception, Alisha, with the help of her former boss Detective Inspector Vincent Ruiz, embarks on a terrifying quest that takes her from the East End of London to Amsterdam’s red light district and into a murky underworld of sex trafficking, slavery and exploitation that stretches from the desolate hillsides of Afghanistan to the comfortable middle class suburbs of London.
With a complex protagonist, a labyrinthine plot and a heart-stopping finale, this is a remarkable novel will not fail to have you hooked.


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About The Author
Before writing full time, Michael Robotham was an investigative journalist. He is the pseudonymous author of ten bestselling non-fiction titles. His first novel The Suspect, received widespread critical acclaim and has been translated into seventeen languages. His second novel The Drowning Man won the Ned Kelly Award for the Crime Book of the Year in 2005, given by the Australian Crime Writers Association, his third novel The Night Ferry was shortlisted for the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger for Best Thriller 2007.
Michael Robotham lives in Sydney with his wife and three daughters.
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Bibliography
N.B. dates and publishers in dark red indicate British First Editions. Dates and publishers in black indicate recent reprints.

  • Shatter (Sphere, 2008) New Feb 08
  • The Night Ferry (Sphere, 2007)
  • The Drowning Man ( 2006)
  • Lost ( 2005)
  • The Suspect ( 2005)


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