Watching You Author: Visit Amazon's Michael Robotham Page | Language: English | ISBN:
031625200X | Format: PDF
Watching You Description
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*Starred Review* Aussie thriller master Robotham starts with a touch readers have seen before. Every person who does wrong by the hero, therapist Joe O’Loughlin, has something awful happen to them, and all Joe knows is that he didn’t do it. Meanwhile, Marnie Logan could use help. Abandoned by her husband, raising two children, and behind in the rent, she joins an escort service. Her pimp beats her. She visits a banker to beg that her husband’s money be released. The jerk sneers her out the door. All her life Marnie has had a sense she’s being watched by someone who stays in shadows and disappears when she turns on a light. Now she’s sure. Scared, she confides in her friend, O’Loughlin, who does some detective-style investigating and learns that suddenly, like Marnie, he seems to have someone looking over his shoulder, too. This is where Robotham slowly, expertly begins tightening the screws in a deadpan style as sneaky as Joe’s shadow friend. Revelations increase rather than release tension until the last page delivers the final chill. It will be a long time before memories of this one retreat back into the shadows. --Don Crinklaw
Review
"Robotham slowly, expertly begins tightening the screws...Revelations increase rather than release tension until the last page...It will be a long time before memories of this one retreat back into the shadows." --
Booklist (starred review)
"Full of surprises. Well written and slightly creepy, it will keep readers intrigued to the final page." --
Library Journal (starred review)
"[A] commanding book with an ending that's sure to give even the most jaded reader a shock" --
Publishers Weekly"Robotham's writing remains solid. [
Watching You] will convert new readers and make his fans happy." --
Kirkus ReviewsPRAISE FOR PREVIOUS TITLES:
"Robotham not only builds suspense masterfully but tops it off with a stunning twist."—
People"Michael Robotham is the real deal."—
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- Series: Joseph O'Loughlin
- Hardcover: 432 pages
- Publisher: Mulholland Books; Reprint edition (March 11, 2014)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 031625200X
- ISBN-13: 978-0316252003
- Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.2 x 1.5 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
I was so thrilled when Michael Robotham’s latest book, Watching You, the seventh in the Joseph O’Loughlin series downloaded on my Kindle. The only thing that disappointed me about this fast-paced, edge of your seat, nail-biting and every other cliché I can conjure instalment, was that I finished it in one sitting. I simply could not put it down. Damn. Damn. Damn.
The novel begins with Marnie Logan, a young, married woman with two children whose husband, Daniel, disappeared without a trace over a year ago. Grieving for her husband, Marnie (who has her own demons past and present to deal with) tries to cope. Depressed, she’s been seeing her neighbour, Joe O’Loughlin on a professional basis for quite some time. What she hasn’t revealed to him is that throughout most of her life she’s had the uncomfortable sensation of being watched – it’s nothing tangible, just a flash in the corner of her eye, a light touch, like cobwebs, upon her shoulders; the uneasy sensation that nothing you do is private.
It’s not until she finds an incomplete birthday present that Daniel was working on for her birthday, a scrapbook of memories, DVD of interviews and images of people from her past, that things begin to go awry. Far from being the celebration Daniel intended, there are people he interviews who are either terrified of Marnie and what she did to them, or curse her to an early grave. When Marnie, confused and upset, turns to Joe to explain what’s going on, he turns to his buddy, Vincent Ruiz for help.
Just in time, it seems, for Marnie is going to need some friends, particularly when a shady character she’s involved with turns up dead and the last number he called and the last person he’s known to have seen, was her.
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