From journalist and biographer to bestselling thriller writer. Michael Robotham It is the clear example of the narrator who ends up exploding in fictional settings after having hardened well on the imperative realism of chronicles, portraits and opinion pieces.
And welcome was the moment of change, having already surpassed forty tacos. Because today Robotham is one of those expected, with the magical cadence of bestsellers, by thousands of writers from all over the world. Although it is true that his extensive production reaches Spain in dribs and drabs.
With brushstrokes of crime novels, pulling thriller setting resources and always with its particular imprint towards the maximum tension of the narrative, Robotham encompasses everything. Because few like him make any space transformations towards that dark side of things.
At times they blend into wonderfully convoluted plots along the Jöel Dicker, but also capable of a paralyzing domestic suspense typical of Shari lapena, this Australian writer never ceases to amaze us.
Top 3 Recommended Novels by Michael Robotham
Alive or dead
It may sound crazy, but Audie Palmer's escape, the day before her release, and after ten years in the shadows, has a well-justified cause. While he was imprisoned, everyone approached him with better or worse intentions to find out the whereabouts of the 7 million loot for which he ended up behind bars. Once on the street, their pursuit will become stark and dangerous. Haunted by money, none of his various pursuers will go beyond the doubt generated by his escape. Why escape the day before being released? Everyone wants to know where the money is and they sense that Audie is about to get it back.
But the reader has more clues, is guided by more complete approaches, advances through a plot where doubt takes on a very different tone than flight and the simple search for loot. Something else moves the fugitive, motives shared exclusively with the surprised reader, who will advance in the plot at the frenetic pace of the chase and the merciless passage of time, his most implacable pursuer. Audie is not looking for the money, he seeks to arrive in time to avoid a tragedy. How did she know what she could go through? What really moved him to get out of jail 24 hours before his release letter?
Those 24 hours are much more transcendent than it seems. Michael needs time to save a life, and he will do his best so that no one can stop him. As for the loot, it is probably the least of it... Audie preserves the biggest unconfessed secrets until the end of the book, where the reader and some of his pursuers end up understanding the magnitude of the events. 10 years in prison, between humiliation and mistreatment, could have changed Audie, for better or worse.
Dark secrets
One of those puzzling novels by this author. A plot beyond all known range in his work. Perhaps because of that surprise factor and without a doubt because it is a story with a disturbing hook, it ends up being a very enjoyable novel.
A shocking thriller about the unlikely friendship between two pregnant women that will make you wonder how far you're willing to go in search of the perfect family. Agatha is pregnant, works part-time as a stocker at a grocery store, London suburbs, counting down the days until her baby is born. Her work shifts seem endless, which makes her professional frustration increase every day.
Agatha longs for a life like Meghan's, an elegant and modern client that leaves her totally dazzled. Meghan has it all: two perfect children, a wonderful husband, a happy marriage, a group of friends, and she also writes articles on a popular blog about motherhood, articles that Agatha reads with devotion every night while waiting for her increasingly absent. couple, the father of the baby who is expecting.
When Agatha finds out that Meghan is pregnant again and that her due dates coincide, she plucks up the courage to talk to her, excited that they finally have something in common. Meghan is about to discover that that little and unimportant time she has shared with a grocery store employee is about to forever change the course of what until then was a perfect life.
Sospechoso
The first of a series that unfortunately stayed there, at its start. None of the remaining 8 novels have been published in Spain. Although at the rate that this author grows in consideration, they will eventually arrive. Joseph O'Loughlin seems to have the perfect life: a beautiful woman, an adoring daughter, and a successful career as a psychiatrist in the City of London. However, one day he discovers to his amazement that one of his patients has been murdered.
The young woman, who died in very violent circumstances, wrote him a letter before she died and made several calls; All this makes him the main suspect in the eyes of the police. The case becomes more complicated as new evidence is discovered, and little by little his family and friends turn their backs on him and stop trusting him. Cornered, O'Loughlin decides to flee so he can investigate for himself why everything is collapsing around him.
