Part of Joseph O'Loughlin
First published 2015
Marnie Logan keeps sensing she is being watched. A breath at her neck. A shape at the edge of her vision that disappears the moment she turns. Her husband Daniel is gone, vanished without explanation, and the police have nothing. No body, no crime scene, no answers. With his accounts frozen and his life insurance locked away, Marnie is broke and unraveling. She starts seeing clinical psychologist Joe O'Loughlin, though she holds back more than she shares. O'Loughlin notices. He pushes. Then Marnie brings him something Daniel left behind: the Big Red Book, a scrapbook Daniel had been quietly assembling from photos, interviews, and stories gathered from everyone who knew her, meant as a surprise birthday gift. What Daniel found inside Marnie's past stopped him cold. Every person who has ever gotten close to her has come to harm. Someone has been systematically removing the people in her life, one by one. Now O'Loughlin knows what Daniel knew. That makes him next. Michael Robotham builds the dread slowly and deliberately, keeping the psychopath at the center of everything just out of reach until the very end.
Genres: suspense, mystery, crime, adult-fiction, thriller, psychological-thriller
Vibes: atmospheric, dark, dread-filled, psychological, suspenseful, unnerving
Tropes: dark-secret, gaslighting, slow-burn-revelation, unreliable-narrator
Period: contemporary
448 pages · Paperback · Little, Brown Paperbacks
Content warnings: murder, violence