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.

邁剋爾·羅伯森，1960年生於澳大利亞新南威爾士州，1979年進入悉尼《太陽報》成為一名記者。在新聞業沉浮14年後，改行做匿名寫手，先後替15位藝術、政治、軍事和體育名人執筆自傳，其中有12本登上暢銷榜。曆經十年為人作嫁，開始用本名寫小說。

首部心理驚悚小說《嫌疑人》於2004年齣版，獲知名圖書俱樂部推薦，一炮而紅，開創瞭“奧洛剋林醫生係列”，同屬這個係列的《碎裂》2008年獲澳大利亞奈德·凱利奬ZUI佳小說，入圍英國犯罪作傢協會“鋼匕首奬”、ITV3 犯罪驚悚小說奬。這個係列的作品在德國陸續被改編為電影，備受好評。2015年齣版的《越獄者》擊敗包括斯蒂芬·金在內的諸多熱門人選獲得英國犯罪作傢協會“金匕首奬”，入圍美國推理作傢協會“愛倫·坡奬”短名單。《她和她的秘密》獲澳大利亞書業協會2018年“大眾小說奬”。