Storm Child

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Before becoming a novelist, Michael Robotham was a former feature writer and investigative reporter working in Britain, Australia and America, and with clinical and forensic psychologists as they helped police investigate complex, psychologically driven crimes.

2024 marked the 20-year anniversary of the publication of his debut thriller, The Suspect, which introduced clinical psychologist Joe O'Loughlin, sold more than a million copies around the world and is now a major TV series starring Aidan Turner on ABC TV. Michael's standalone thriller The Secrets She Keeps was adapted for TV by Network 10 and the BBC.

Michael is the only Australian to twice win the UK's prestigious Gold Dagger Award for best crime novel, for Life or Death and Good Girl, Bad Girl as well as the Ian Fleming Steel Dagger for When She Was Good*. Lying Beside You* was shortlisted for the Australian Crime Writers Association's Ned Kelly Award for Best Crime Fiction 2023. Storm Child, his fourth novel in his globally bestselling Cyrus Haven and Evie Cormac series, was a No. 1 national bestseller in Australia. The White Crow is the second book in his Philomena McCarthy series, following on from the internationally bestselling When You Are Mine.

Michael lives in Sydney.

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SOME MEMORIES ARE BURIED FOR A REASON... The compulsively readable new thriller by the #1 bestselling and award-winning master of crime

The most painful of Evie Cormac's memories have been locked away since she was held prisoner as a child - an angel-faced urchin whose rescue captured hearts and headlines.

Forensic psychologist Cyrus Haven has made it his mission to guide Evie back to something approaching normality. But he knows that will only happen if they can find the missing pieces of her complex and haunting jigsaw-puzzle past.

Now, on an English beach, Evie's nightmares come roaring back at her. Seventeen bodies wash up on the shore - with only one survivor, and two women still missing. Whatever happened to Evie all those years ago lies at the evil heart of this new tragedy. Because these deaths are no accident. The same dark forces are still at work, reaching out, dragging her back into the eye of the storm.

This time, Evie can call upon Cyrus's unique skills - and her own. But will that be enough to save them? And who will end up paying for the past?

Praise for Lying Beside You (Cyrus Haven 3):

'Robotham is one of our best crime writers' Weekend Australian

'The guy can't write a bad book. This is one of his best, suspenseful and hard to put down' STEPHEN KING

'A nail-biter' LINWOOD BARCLAY

'An achingly beautiful story about trust, redemption and love that had me intermittently catching my breath' Sydney Morning Herald