- Hardcover: 480 pages
- Publisher: Sphere; 1st Edition edition (7 Feb 2008)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1847441777
- ISBN-13: 978-1847441775
- Product Dimensions: 16.5 x 24.3 x 4.7 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (34 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 346,908 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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For THE SUSPECT: *'This is high-energy drama that's deftly done, with plenty of guessing games and nail-biting tension full of fine characterisation, brilliantly researched detail and subtle humour' Andrea Henry, MIRROR * 'Credible characters and a clever plot make an absorbing read by a welcome new name in the genre' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH * 'A highly effective thriller ... Well-engineered plot, with gathering horrors heightened...A gripper' LITERARY REVIEW
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21 of 21 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Superb, atmospheric thriller,
By Admiral6004 (London & LA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Shatter (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.
11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Good psychological thriller,
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This review is from: Shatter (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.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A frightening psychological thriller that I just couldn't put down.,
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This review is from: Shatter (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.
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