Bleed for Me, Michael Robotham
Bleed for Me, Michael Robotham
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Bleed for Me

Author: Michael Robotham

Narrator: Sean Barrett

Unabridged: 11 hr 49 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/27/2012


Synopsis

She's standing at the front door. Covered in blood. Is she the victim of a crime? Or the perpetrator?

A teenage girl -- Sienna, a troubled friend of his daughter -- comes to Joe O'Loughlin's door one night. She is terrorized, incoherent, and covered in blood.

The police find Sienna's father, a celebrated former cop, murdered in the home he shared with Sienna. Tests confirm that it's his blood on Sienna. She says she remembers nothing.

Joe O'Loughlin is a psychologist with troubles of his own. His marriage is coming to an end and his daughter will barely speak to him. He tries to help Sienna, hoping that if he succeeds it will win back his daughter's affection. But Sienna is unreachable, unable to mourn her father's death or to explain it.

Investigators take aim at Sienna. O'Loughlin senses something different is happening, something subterranean and terrifying to Sienna. It may be something in her mind. Or it may be something real. Someone real. Someone capable of the most grim and gruesome murder, and willing to kill again if anyone gets too close.

His newest thriller is further evidence that Michael Robotham is, as David Baldacci has said, "the real deal -- we only hope he will write faster."

About Michael Robotham

Michael Robotham is a former investigative journalist whose bestselling psychological thrillers have been translated into twenty-five languages. He has twice won a Ned Kelly Award for Australia’s best crime novel, for Lost in 2005 and Shatter in 2008. His recent novels include When She Was Good, winner of the UK’s Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award for best thriller; The Secrets She Keeps; Good Girl, Bad Girl; When You Are Mine; Lying Beside You; and Storm Child. After living and writing all over the world, Robotham settled his family in Sydney, Australia.


Reviews

Goodreads review by PattyMacDotComma on February 17, 2023

5★ “‘I don’t differentiate. Professor. You try to understand human behaviour. You try to explain it. Not me. I know we’re smaller than gorillas, bigger than chimps, worse than both of them and, for all our rationality, our rules and laws, our baser drives are still straight out of the jungle.’” So sai......more

Goodreads review by Jess☺️ on September 30, 2019

Bleed For Me by Michael Robotham is book 4 in the Joe O'Loughlin series and it's definitely a series which seems to get better with every book, also it doesn't let up with the dark and twisted themes throughout. It's a fast thriller with plenty of ' OH NO ' moments 😱 but it also has many exciting han......more

Goodreads review by Erin on April 25, 2020

What a great series! I do want to give 1 WARNING though.. There is an act of animal cruelty in this & it really bothered me. It’s terrible but for some reason I can handle “it all” in regards to people but I have NO interest in reading about any of it being done to animals. & this particular situati......more

Goodreads review by Wendy on December 21, 2012

A compelling read spoiled because the author broke the golden rule - never kill the frigging dog! Having an animal tortured and not showing much reaction is unnecessary and upsetting. I enjoy Robotham's work and, apart from the dog episode, this was was cleverly put together. I get a bit peeved with......more

Goodreads review by Emma on November 11, 2018

You’ve got to love Joe, but boy does he get himself into every trouble going! This book is dark and sadly quite a product of our times. I like that we get to suffer along with him through the angst of being a parent, of being a newly separated husband. Ronnie Cray and Ruiz are also strong characters......more


Quotes

"Proves Robotham's a writer of the highest class who can create terror from the commonplace and crush the breath out of you."—The Daily Mail (UK)

"A disquieting, often moving, dissection of the layers of hipocrisy that protect the wicked."—The Times (UK)

Praise for THE WRECKAGE (2011):

"One of the best novels to come out of the chaos of Iraq; a penetrating peek through the fog of war."—Nelson DeMille

Praise for SHATTER (2009):

"The most suspenseful book I read all year."—Stephen King, Entertainment Weekly

"Terrific...a classic 'wrong man' thriller that puts its hero in hot water, then raises the Fahrenheit to a fever pitch....Robotham not only builds the suspense masterfully but tops it off with a stunning twist."—People

"Pleasantly creepy....Plotted with precision and narrated with real intelligence."—The New York Times Book Review