In Michael Robotham’s latest thriller, psychologist Joe O’Loughlin—the appealing hero of Suspect—tries to prevent a suicide and finds himself locked in a deadly duel with a very clever killer.
Joe O'Loughlin is on familiar territory—standing on a bridge high above a flooded gorge, trying to stop a distraught woman from jumping. She is naked, wearing only high-heel shoes, sobbing into a cell phone. Suddenly, she turns to him and whispers, “You don’t understand,” and lets go. Joe is shattered by the suicide and haunted by his failure to save the woman, until her teenage daughter finds him and reveals that her mother would never have committed suicide—not like that. She was terrified of heights. Compelled to investigate, Joe is soon obsessed with discovering who was on the other end of the phone. What could have driven her to commit such a desperate act? Whose voice? What evil?
Having devoted his career to repairing damaged minds, Joe must now confront an adversary who tears them apart: a man who searches for the cracks in a person’s psyche and claws his fingers inside, destroying what makes them whole.
With pitch-perfect dialogue, believable characters, and intriguingly unpredictable plot twists, Shatter is guaranteed to keep even the most avid thriller readers riveted long into the night.
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Shatter is a gripping journey into the weaknesses and strengths of the human psyche...it is the inevitablility of the plot's development that builds the tension and will have you turning the pages compulsively, desperate to get to the end, but not daring to miss a word (The Times )
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Genuinely terrifying (Literary Review )
Robotham's restrained and knowledgeable method of writing means that the story develops at just the right pace (RTE Guide ) --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Brilliant (Company )
Genuinely terrifying (Literary Review )
Robotham's restrained and knowledgeable method of writing means that the story develops at just the right pace (RTE Guide ) --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Joe O'Loughlin from Michael Robotham's bestselling debut The Suspect returns to face a terrifying opponent...
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By Admiral6004
Format:Hardcover
This is no standard crime fiction . . . this is a mighty novel, beautifully and masterfully written. I won't outline the story. Suffice to say that, yet again, Michael Robotham's storytelling is pure genius. Each twist and turn strikes perfectly. I defy you not to become utterly immersed in the world of Joe O'Loughlin, Vincent Ruiz et al as once again Robotham shows off his extraordinary talents. I've loved his previous novels, but in my view Shatter confirms his place in the very top flight. This is thriller writing of the very highest order, by the genre's most meteoric new star. In fact I'd go further: this deeply involving story about the connection between killer and hunter might just be the best book you'll read this year. Richard and Judy, take note.
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By Lizzie Hayes
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Christine Wheeler stands on the edge of the Clifton Suspension bridge,naked except for a pair of red high heeled shoes, talking into a mobile phone. In front of police and passers- by Chrstine jumps to her death into the fast running river below.
Professor Joseph O'Loughlin a psychologist requested by the police to talk her down is one of the witnesses to her plunge into the river. But Christine's daughter is convinced that she was murdered. Haunted by his failure to talk her down and struggling to understand why she would do something like this Jo tries to discover what happened.
But this will not be the first death by this means. As Joe strives to uncover how the killer can drive a woman to these measures, he gets too close to the killer and then the killer invades his life.
An unusual hero Joe O'Loughlin is battling his own demons, which impact on his life and those around him - is he maybe destroying his own life? unable to come to terms with his own mortality.
A frightening psychological thriller that I just couldn't put down.
Recommended.
Professor Joseph O'Loughlin a psychologist requested by the police to talk her down is one of the witnesses to her plunge into the river. But Christine's daughter is convinced that she was murdered. Haunted by his failure to talk her down and struggling to understand why she would do something like this Jo tries to discover what happened.
But this will not be the first death by this means. As Joe strives to uncover how the killer can drive a woman to these measures, he gets too close to the killer and then the killer invades his life.
An unusual hero Joe O'Loughlin is battling his own demons, which impact on his life and those around him - is he maybe destroying his own life? unable to come to terms with his own mortality.
A frightening psychological thriller that I just couldn't put down.
Recommended.
13 of 14 people found the following review helpful
By Keris Nine
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The book's title is the description of the sound made by a mind that has been broken, and Robotham brings the full horror of that to bear in his latest novel. What are the buttons that can be pushed to mentally destroy a person and what kind of monster is capable of doing it? If he is capable of understanding this, clinical psychologist Joe O'Loughlin just might be able to get closer to the answer of why a killer has driven a number of women to their deaths.
The first victim is a naked woman in red heels who jumps from the Clifton Suspension Bridge despite the best efforts of the professor, who has recently moved to the area with his wife and two daughters. Unable to understand what could have motivated the woman to apparently kill herself, Joe suspects that someone may have driven her to her death - the voice on the other end of a mobile phone she was holding at the time. The police are sceptical about Joe's theory, so he calls in an old friend - former Chief Inspector Vincent Ruiz, now retired.
It's a bit of a cliché, but inevitably the question of "we're not so different" comes up between the killer who manipulates minds and the psychologist who tries to analyse and in some respects control them. To compound the cliché, Robotham is not so different either, as he once again he finds a very real fear that any reader will identify with and manipulates it to create a tense and dramatic situation, one heightened by the vulnerability of his characters through Joe's Parkinson's Disease and in his domestic situation with his wife. If in this respect, the serial killer investigation makes Shatter more of a conventional thriller than Robotham's previous books, it's nonetheless just as effective and involving and the consequences are no less serious.
The first victim is a naked woman in red heels who jumps from the Clifton Suspension Bridge despite the best efforts of the professor, who has recently moved to the area with his wife and two daughters. Unable to understand what could have motivated the woman to apparently kill herself, Joe suspects that someone may have driven her to her death - the voice on the other end of a mobile phone she was holding at the time. The police are sceptical about Joe's theory, so he calls in an old friend - former Chief Inspector Vincent Ruiz, now retired.
It's a bit of a cliché, but inevitably the question of "we're not so different" comes up between the killer who manipulates minds and the psychologist who tries to analyse and in some respects control them. To compound the cliché, Robotham is not so different either, as he once again he finds a very real fear that any reader will identify with and manipulates it to create a tense and dramatic situation, one heightened by the vulnerability of his characters through Joe's Parkinson's Disease and in his domestic situation with his wife. If in this respect, the serial killer investigation makes Shatter more of a conventional thriller than Robotham's previous books, it's nonetheless just as effective and involving and the consequences are no less serious.
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This was my first book by Michael Robothom. My son had recommended him to me and I'd just never got round to reading one. Read more
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Michael Robotham never ceases to amaze me with his plots. I love his books and would definitely recommend to anyone looking for brilliant
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storylines with lots of excitement.
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This book was excellent and I couldn't put it down. I haven't read any of Michael Robotham before but I certainly will in the future. Definitely recommend it
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Brilliant-again
Another great book from this brilliant author. He writes in such a way that you feel as if you are in the action yourself! His characters are believable. His plots are spot on. Read more
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Terrific read
One of the best books I've ever had the pleasure to read. Gripping from start to finish. A must read.
Published 3 months ago by Peter
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If only those murderers were less sick in their minds....
'Shatter ' is quite a page turner and in that respect at least the book doesn't fail. I read the first 300 pages quite quickly, engrossed as I was by the fast-paced story. Read more
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Love this author
Although I read later books first , I enjoyed them
so much that I bought this one and it is very
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so much that I bought this one and it is very
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This is storytelling at its best, the story builds well then edge of your seat stuff towards the end, I would and will recommend this book to anyone. Read more
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You will not want to put this book Dawn, from beginning to the end it's a rollercoaster which you will not want to get off.
You will not want to put this book Dawn, from beginning to the end it's a rollercoaster which you will not want to get off.
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