![]() ![]() ![]() Why would a man escape the day before release? Then, the day before his scheduled release, he stages a daring escape from prison. Slowly, slowly we fall for Audie, who has achieved a sort of mythic regard in prison, surviving numerous attempts to murder him. Thus was born Audie Palmer, a man sentenced to ten years in prison for a robbery in which four people died and seven million dollars went missing. Why would a man escape from prison days before release? Robotham says that he had to "find the answer-even had to make it up." In 1995, Tony Lanigan escaped from prison only a few days before he was due to be released on parole. It is set in Texas, not London, and is the result of a news article that he'd been thinking of for nearly twenty years. Life or Death, his latest release, is a stand alone novel and not part of the O'Loughlin/DI Ruiz series. ![]() Perhaps I was late to the game because he is better known in the UK and Australia, but better late than never. In the ten years Robotham has been writing psychological thrillers, he has achieved some impressive stats. (UK) Steel Daggers (2007, 2008) 1 Crime Writer's Assoc. Some of the Awards he has received:ģ Ned Kelly Awards for Crime Writing (Best Novel in 2005, 2007, 2008) 2 Crime Writer's Assoc. I've now read five of the ten novels he's written.Īlthough he has been a journalist and a ghost writer, it is his psychological thrillers that have garnered him so many fans. Australian author Michael Robotham has a new stand alone! My first book by Robotham was Watching You, released early in 2014, and I was hooked. ![]()
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