Joe makes some unwise decisions along the way, putting himself in significant jeopardy.

I thought Joe’s in depth perspective added some real meat to the tale. Since he is a psychologist, we get considerable psychological insight, not only into Joe’s head, but also in his take on some of his patients, particularly the enigmatic Bobby. The story is told in first person narrative from O’Loughlin’s point of view. Suspect gets off to a banging start and kept me glued to the pages throughout. I’ve had Michael Robotham’s Suspect, book #1 of the Joseph O’Loughlin series, on my radar for a couple of years and finally decided to give it a go. Michael lives in Sydney with his wife and a diminishing number of dependent daughters. A six-part TV series based upon his standalone novel THE SECRETS SHE KEEPS was aired on BBC1 in 2020, and a second series begins filming in 2021. Since then, Michael's psychological thrillers have been translated into twenty-five languages and his Joe O'Loughlin series is are currently in development for TV by World Productions. His first novel 'THE SUSPECT', a psychological thriller, was chosen by the world’s largest consortium of book clubs as only the fifth “International Book of the Month”, making it the top recommendation to 28 million book club members in fifteen countries. Twelve of these non-fiction titles have been bestsellers with combined sales of more than 2 million copies. In 1993 he quit journalism to become a ghostwriter, collaborating with politicians, pop stars, psychologists, adventurers and showbusiness personalities to write their autobiographies. He also gained access to Stalin’s Hitler files, which had been missing for nearly fifty years until a cleaner stumbled upon a cardboard box that had been misplaced and misfiled. As a senior feature writer for the UK’s Mail on Sunday he was among the first people to view the letters and diaries of Czar Nicholas II and his wife Empress Alexandra, unearthed in the Moscow State Archives in 1991. He escaped became a cadet journalist on an afternoon newspaper in Sydney.įor the next fourteen years he worked for newspapers and magazines in Australia, Europe, Africa and America.

of violence and chases 20% Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives 40% Feelings, relationships, character bio/development 30% How society works & physical descript.Two-times Gold Dagger winner (20), twice Edgar best novel finalist (20) and winner of the Ian Fleming Steel Dagger (2021), Michael Robotham was born in Australia in November 1960 and grew up in small country towns that had more dogs than people and more flies than dogs. Click on a plot link to find similar books! Plot & Themes Composition of Book descript.

Suspect by Michael Robotham