The only clue is a picture in Vincent's pocket: a photograph of a young girl, Mickey Carlyle, who disappeared three years ago. Murder suspects can often fake amnesia, and the investigating team are not sure this case is any different. Vincent, a police detective, had signed his service pistol out of the station armoury, despite being on leave. Forensics say at least one of them must be dead. A mile away from his body, a boat was found covered in blood - Vincent's and that of three others. Because Vincent has no recollection of what happened, and nobody believes him. It takes six days for him to come out of his coma, and when he does, his nightmare is only just beginning. A bullet in the leg, another through the hand, he is discovered clinging to a buoy in the River Thames, nearly unconscious and losing blood fast. The Suspect is now a major ITV drama starring Aidan Turner as Joe O'Loughlin and Shaun Parkes as Vincent Ruiz.A lost child. Michael lives in Sydney with his wife and a diminishing number of dependent daughters.If you loved The Suspect, don't miss the second book in the series. A six-part TV series based upon his standalone novel THE SECRETS SHE KEEPS was aired on BBC1 in 2020, and a second series begins filming in 2021. Since then, Michael's psychological thrillers have been translated into twenty-five languages and his Joe O'Loughlin series is are currently in development for TV by World Productions.
His first novel 'THE SUSPECT', a psychological thriller, was chosen by the world’s largest consortium of book clubs as only the fifth “International Book of the Month”, making it the top recommendation to 28 million book club members in fifteen countries. Twelve of these non-fiction titles have been bestsellers with combined sales of more than 2 million copies. In 1993 he quit journalism to become a ghostwriter, collaborating with politicians, pop stars, psychologists, adventurers and showbusiness personalities to write their autobiographies. He also gained access to Stalin’s Hitler files, which had been missing for nearly fifty years until a cleaner stumbled upon a cardboard box that had been misplaced and misfiled. As a senior feature writer for the UK’s Mail on Sunday he was among the first people to view the letters and diaries of Czar Nicholas II and his wife Empress Alexandra, unearthed in the Moscow State Archives in 1991. He escaped became a cadet journalist on an afternoon newspaper in Sydney.įor the next fourteen years he worked for newspapers and magazines in Australia, Europe, Africa and America. Two-times Gold Dagger winner (20), twice Edgar best novel finalist (20) and winner of the Ian Fleming Steel Dagger (2021), Michael Robotham was born in Australia in November 1960 and grew up in small country towns that had more dogs than people and more flies than dogs.
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