Michael Robotham Books in Order

Ambitious London police officer Philomena McCarthy has built a fragile career despite her family’s gangster reputation. After she finds a blood‑spattered child whose mother has been murdered and, miles away, a jeweller forced to wear an explosive vest, the clues begin pointing toward her father, plunging Phil into a brutal gang war.

On a sweltering day at an English beach, Evie Cormac watches bodies from a wrecked migrant boat wash ashore, with only one teenage boy still alive. Cyrus Haven is called in to investigate, and the case stirs buried memories of Evie’s own trafficking, leading them toward a ruthless figure known only as the Ferryman.

Twenty years after his brother murdered their family, Cyrus Haven must decide whether to support Elias’s release from a secure hospital. At the same time, a man is killed and two women vanish. With Evie Cormac as the only witness, the investigation forces their uneasy household to confront danger on every side.

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.

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.

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.

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.

When a former student calling himself the 'Mindhunter' sabotages a double-murder investigation, Joe O'Loughlin is reluctantly drawn back into profiling. A mother and daughter have been killed in a remote farmhouse, their deaths echoing a series of bizarre assaults. As Joe closes in on the killer, his own family is placed in jeopardy.

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.

Marnie Logan’s husband has been missing for a year, leaving her buried in debt and fear. Convinced she is being watched, she turns to psychologist Joe O'Loughlin for help. When Joe discovers a scrapbook her husband compiled about her past, it reveals a pattern of death that points to someone who has been orchestrating her life from the shadows.

This non-fiction collection gathers essays from leading Australian crime writers, edited by Michael Robotham. Together they share behind-the-scenes stories from their careers, practical tips on plotting and character, and candid reflections on the obsessions, fears and pleasures that drive them to write about crime.

Three years after best friends Piper Hadley and Tash McBain vanished, a couple is murdered during a savage blizzard in the farmhouse where one of the girls once lived. As police close in on an unstable suspect, Joe O'Loughlin is convinced at least one girl is still alive—and running out of time.

When ex-detective Vincent Ruiz rescues a young woman from a violent boyfriend, he wakes the next morning to find he has been expertly robbed. Tracking the thief leads him to a tortured corpse, a missing banker and a journalist in Baghdad following billions in vanished reconstruction funds—threads of a conspiracy stretching worldwide.

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.

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.

Sami Macbeth is a small-time ex-con who just wants to play guitar and stay out of trouble. Released from prison, he spends one dreamlike night at a luxury hotel—then the train he boards the next morning explodes. Branded a terrorist, Sami must outrun the police and gangsters to clear his name.

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.

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.

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.