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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 )
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 )
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 )
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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 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
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24 of 24 people found the following review helpful
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.
12 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
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.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
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.
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one of the best
this book is just the best , from the first page to the last it draws you in . i felt i knew joe's family and his friends its unusual to feel such sympathy for the people whose... Read more
Published 10 days ago by neil in chipping
Horrifying, compulsive, brilliant
I'm amazed how few reviews this has got so far - it's an absolutely brilliant book.
The plot is unusual and the crime plays very effectively on every parents' worst... Read more
The plot is unusual and the crime plays very effectively on every parents' worst... Read more
Published 1 month ago by Holly
great book
I read the reviews before I got this and as I started it I thought the subject was going to be a bit disturbing but I soon became engrossed in the story and could not put it down. Read more
Published 3 months ago by R. Mccracken
Excellent - original and frightening
This is the second novel that I have read by Robotham. Although I don't read lots of crime thrillers, I will read them if I think they offer something a bit different. Read more
Published 4 months ago by Brida
What an amazing book
I have now read 5 Michael Robotham books and must conclude that the author is a genius.This book, from the first word to the last, is amazing. Read more
Published 4 months ago by MK ahsan
Very very good
I am going to make this short and sweet. I really enjoyed this book, although 'enjoy' is not exactly the correct word. Read more
Published 4 months ago by Grehan
Great read
Michael Robotham is great at not giving anything away until right at the end. When you think you have solved the crime there is always a twist.
Published 6 months ago by Mrs S
As always, a cracking read from Robotham
My wife's review:
As always I know with this author that I am going to enjoy the book whether I read the back cover or not. Read more
As always I know with this author that I am going to enjoy the book whether I read the back cover or not. Read more
Published 6 months ago by Mr. S. N. Pattison
Superb - thriller writing at its best
One of the most gripping books of this genre I've read in many years. I can't recommend it enough to those readers who like a good thriller with substance/great plot and characters... Read more
Published 6 months ago by GeorgeB
a real page turner
always a good sign when you unintentionally miss your bus stop reading a thriller. nice to have a happily married, non alcoholic detective hero for a change. Read more
Published 7 months ago by Huck Flynn
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