Michael Robotham
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Michael Robotham was born in Australia in 1960. In 1979, he moved to Sydney and became a cadet journalist on an afternoon newspaper. He spent the next fourteen years working for newspapers in Australia, Europe, Africa and America. As a senior feature writer for the United Kingdom's Mail on Sunday, vis mere he was among the first people to view the letters and diaries of Czar Nicholas II and his wife Empress Alexandra discovered in the Moscow State Archives in 1991. He also gained access to Stalin's Hitler files, which had been missing for nearly fifty years. He left journalism in 1993 to become a ghostwriter, collaborating with politicians, pop stars, psychologists, adventurers and show business personalities to write their autobiographies. He also writes novels including The Suspect, The Night Ferry, Lost, and The Secrets She Keeps. He won numerous awards including the Ned Kelly Award for the Crime Novel of the Year in 2005 for The Drowning Man, the Ned Kelly Award for the Crime Novel of the Year in 2008 for Shatter, the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger award for best crime novel in 2015 for Life or Death, and the 2018 Australian Book Industry Awards, General fiction book of the year for The Secrets She Keeps. (Bowker Author Biography) vis mindre
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Værker af Michael Robotham
If I Tell You . . . I'll Have to Kill You: Australia's Leading Crime Writers Reveal Their Secrets (2013) — Redaktør — 20 eksemplarer
Michael Robotham Omnibus: 'The Suspect' and 'Lost' 4 eksemplarer
Thriller Omnibus 1 eksemplar
A Espera (Portuguese Edition) 1 eksemplar
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- Fødselsdato
- 1960-11
- Køn
- male
- Nationalitet
- Australia
- Bopæl
- Casino, New South Wales, Australia
- Erhverv
- crime novelist
journalist
ghost writer
biographer - Priser og hædersbevisninger
- Ned Kelly Award
- Agent
- Richard Pine
- Kort biografi
- Michael Robotham is a former journalist and the ghostwriter of at least fourteen autobiographies of prominent figures in the military, arts, sport and science (of Lulu, Ricky Tomlinson, Geri Halliwell, Rolf Harris and Tracy Edwards and others). He lives in Sydney, Australia with his wife and three daughters.
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- Værker
- 37
- Medlemmer
- 9,048
- Popularitet
- #2,659
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- 3.8
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- 549
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- 590
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- 13
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- 18
The bodies of migrants are washed onto the beach where Cyrus and Evie are holidaying. Cyrus helps save one survivor and on the strength of that inserts himself into the investigation, even though there never really seems to be much call for a psychologist. Instead Cyrus and Evie keep asking awkward questions of people they think are involved in endangering or trafficking migrants today and also Evie herself when she was a child. The whole mystery of Evie's past is laid out here, presumably as recalled by Evie herself, which felt a bit anticlimactic after the gradual hints of the previous books.
I found the various players in St. Claire (who were all related to each other in one way or another) confusingly hard to keep in their proper places and the ending frustratingly abrupt. Not my favourite in this series.… (mere)