11 Best Michael Robotham Books

Fourteen-year-old Sienna Hegarty turns up at the home of Joe O'Loughlin's estranged wife, exhausted and covered in blood. Her father, a former police officer, is soon found murdered and everyone assumes Sienna is guilty. Joe, convinced she is hiding a different kind of trauma, risks everything to uncover the truth.

Six years after being discovered hiding in a secret room beside a torture victim, an enigmatic teenager now known as Evie Cormac lives under a false identity in a secure home. When she demands to be released, forensic psychologist Cyrus Haven must judge her readiness even as he investigates the murder of a star skater.

Ten years into a sentence for armed robbery and murder, Audie Palmer escapes from a Texas prison the day before his scheduled release. Everyone assumes he is chasing the missing millions from the heist, but as gangsters and lawmen hunt him, Audie’s real, heartbreaking motive slowly comes to light.

Detective Inspector Vincent Ruiz is pulled half-dead from the Thames with a bullet in his leg and no memory of why he was there. As psychologist Joe O'Loughlin helps him piece together the missing days, they realise he was chasing a supposedly solved child abduction that someone will kill to keep buried.

When Joe O'Loughlin fails to talk a distraught woman down from the Clifton Suspension Bridge, her death looks like suicide. Her daughter insists something more sinister drove her mother to jump, and Joe soon uncovers a manipulative killer who knows exactly how to shatter his victims’ minds—and his own fragile life.

Still recovering from a career-ending back injury, London detective Alisha Barba receives a desperate note from an estranged school friend. Moments after they reunite, the pregnant woman and her husband are run down—and doctors discover there was no baby. Following the lies leads Ali and Vincent Ruiz into a lethal trafficking ring.

Clinical psychologist Joe O'Loughlin seems to have a perfect life until he is asked to consult on a brutal murder and recognises the victim as a former colleague. As his lies to the police mount and a troubled patient drifts toward violence, Joe himself becomes the prime suspect.

Evie Cormac’s past is a locked room full of monsters, and everyone who has tried to expose it has ended up dead. Determined to free her from the shadows, Cyrus Haven tracks the men who exploited her as a child, uncovering a network of abuse that will stop at nothing to silence them both.

When Joe O'Loughlin’s respected surgeon father is viciously attacked, Joe rushes to the hospital expecting to find his mother at his bedside. Instead a stranger is keeping vigil and insists she is William’s other wife. Investigating his father’s secret life, Joe uncovers long‑buried betrayals and a motive for attempted murder.

Agatha is a lonely supermarket worker who dreams of the glossy life she watches from afar: Meghan’s perfect family, stylish home and hugely popular mummy blog. Both women are pregnant, both are hiding devastating secrets, and a single desperate act will bind their lives together in a tense, twisting psychological drama.

Philomena McCarthy has fought her way into the Metropolitan Police despite being the daughter of a notorious gangster. Responding to a domestic assault, she rescues Tempe Brown from a celebrated detective, only to be warned off the case. As Tempe insinuates herself into Phil’s life, obsession, corruption and violence close in.