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7 7 y separately published work icon The Wreckage Michael Robotham , London : Sphere , 2011 Z1776165 2011 single work novel crime thriller '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.' (From the publisher's website.)
8 10 y separately published work icon Bleed for Me Michael Robotham , London : Sphere , 2010 Z1678595 2010 single work novel crime thriller

'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.' (Publication summary)
11 8 y separately published work icon Shatter Michael Robotham , London : Sphere , 2008 Z1488264 2008 single work novel crime thriller

'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?' (Publication summary)
8 7 y separately published work icon Say You're Sorry Michael Robotham , Sydney : Sphere , 2012 Z1879280 2012 single work novel crime thriller

'...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, ex-cop Vincent Ruiz, force the police to re-open the case after Joe is called in to assess the possible killer of a couple in their own home and finds a connection to the missing girls. But they are racing against time to save Piper from someone with an evil, calculating and twisted mind...' (Hachette Australia website)
18 8 y separately published work icon The Suspect Michael Robotham , London : Time Warner Book Group , 2004 Z1113558 2004 single work novel thriller crime

'Renowned psychologist Joseph O'Loughlin has it all-a thriving practice, a devoted, beautiful, fiercely intelligent wife, and a lovely young daughter. But when he's diagnosed with Parkinson's, O'Loughlin begins to dread the way his exceptional mind has been shackled to a failing body, and the cracks in his perfect existence start to show.

'At first, O'Loughlin is delighted to be called in to a high-profile murder investigation, hoping his extraordinary abilities at perception will help bring a killer to justice. But when O'Loughlin recognizes the victim as one of his former patients, an emotionally disturbed young woman who nearly brought ruin upon him, O'Loughlin hesitates-a fateful decision that soon places O'Loughlin at the top of the lists of both a bullish detective, and a diabolical killer.' (Publication summary)
6 7 y separately published work icon The Empire of Eternity Anthony O'Neill , Milsons Point : Vintage Australia , 2006 Z1286219 2006 single work novel historical fiction mystery The Chamber of Eternity of Egypt is said to contain a hieroglyphic chart of the future, the meaning of life and the secrets of immortality. For thousands of years it has been sought by emperors, kings, caliphs and popes, but its site is fiercely guarded; its existence defended by preposterous rumours and outright lies. By the 1790s the chamber has become a treasure more prized and elusive than even the Holy Grail. Learning of the mysterious vault, in 1798 Napoleon Bonaparte launches an ambitious expedition to Egypt to locate it. And one year later, in the heart of the Great Pyramid, the chamber's secrets are revealed to him by a mysterious red-robed mystic - the so-called 'Red Man'. Buoyed by revelations of a phenomenal destiny, Napoleon returns to Paris and becomes Emperor of France. But as his fame escalates he begins to question the veracity of the meeting in the Great Pyramid, the accuracy of the chamber's prophecies, the existence of the Red Man - and his sanity. Forty years later it is Queen Victoria's turn to become infatuated with the legend. She knows that since Napoleon's day a few are said to have discovered the great vault, but for some inexplicable reason they seem determined to withhold its extraordinary secrets. So Alexander Rhind, a modest young Scottish archaeologist, is recruited to infiltrate the 'Brotherhood of Eternity'. But when Rhind himself becomes seduced by the mystery of the chamber, he too is compelled to undertake his own search for it, drawn by the possibility that there are answers among the ruins, both grand and intimate, which can only be discerned in person. With its cast of emperors, popes, queens, generals, sheikhs, artists and archaeologists - every one of them real - THE EMPIRE OF ETERNITY is a brilliant and haunting novel about the mysteries of the great tombs, the hidden secrets of the gods and man's desire to possess them at all costs. Its story will stay in your mind long after you have turned the final page. (Publisher's blurb)
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