Bleed For Me

Ray Hegarty, a highly respected former detective, lies dead in his daughter Sienna's bedroom. She is found covered in his blood. Everything points to her guilt, but psychologist Joe O'Loughlin isn't convinced.

Fourteen-year-old Sienna is Joe's daughter's best friend - Joe has watched her grow up and seen the troubled look in her eyes. Against the advice of the police, he launches his own investigation, embarking upon a hunt that will lead him to a predatory schoolteacher; a conspiracy of silence and a race-hate trial that is captivating the nation.

With dark psychological twists and heart-stopping tension, BLEED FOR ME is a page-turning thriller from one of the most brilliant crime writers of today, Michael Robotham.

“A writer who deserves to be at the top of his genre, and beyond - HERALD SUNHeart-stopping, heart-breaking and heart-wrenching - VAL McDERMID Robotham is an absolute master - STEPHEN KINGWill have you turning the pages compulsively - THE TIMES”

A writer who deserves to be at the top of his genre, and beyond - HERALD SUN

Heart-stopping, heart-breaking and heart-wrenching - VAL McDERMID

Robotham is an absolute master - STEPHEN KING

Will have you turning the pages compulsively - THE TIMES

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.

Ray Hegarty , a highly respected former detective, lies dead in his daughter Sienna 's bedroom. She is found covered in his blood. Everything points to her guilt, but psychologist Joe O'Loughlin isn't convinced.Fourteen-year-old Sienna is Joe's daughter's best friend - Joe has watched her grow up and seen the troubled look in her eyes. Against the advice of the police, he launches his own investigation, embarking upon a hunt that will lead him to a predatory schoolteacher; a conspiracy of silence and a race-hate trial that is captivating the nation. With dark psychological twists and heart-stopping tension, BLEED FOR ME is a page-turning thriller from one of the most brilliant crime writers of today, Michael Robotham.

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