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A secret wife. A secret life. A killer who knows. The #1 bestseller that will keep you on the edge of your seat until its shocking climax, by multimillion-copy selling author Michael Robotham.

William and Mary have been married sixty years. William is a celebrated surgeon, Mary a devoted wife. Both are strong believers in right and wrong.

William and Olivia have been together twenty years. Olivia was once a tennis star, but her career has long since faded.

Clinical psychologist Joe O'Loughlin knows only one of these stories to be true. But when he is called to his father's hospital bed after a brutal attack, everything he once knew is turned upside down. Is it possible his father, the upstanding citizen, was leading a double life?

And who is the strange woman crying at William's bedside, covered in his blood - a friend, a mistress, a fantasist or a killer?

A confronting psychological thriller from one of the greatest crime writers of today, Michael Robotham, the bestselling author of THE SECRETS SHE KEEPS.

PRAISE FOR THE OTHER WIFE:

'Michael Robotham has produced a fine novel, by turns elegiac, chagrined and defiant' Weekend Australian

'There's no putting down this thriller as Robotham expertly leads readers into a tangled web of lies and wives' Herald Sun

'Will have you questioning motives and guessing right up until the end' Daily Telegraph

'A superbly crafted thriller with [a] half-dozen credible potential suspects' Courier Mail

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Praise for The Other Wife

  • The Other Wife is all about what it means to be a father. It's also a book about coming to terms with the past in ways that allow us to move on - The Age

  • Michael Robotham takes many of the tropes of the domestic thriller, but elevates them into something more substantial through his superior writing. - Canberra Weekly

  • Crime fiction at its most compelling. - Hobart Mercury

  • This absorbing novel will make you wish there was another O'Loughlin episode to come. - Weekend West

  • Michael Robotham has hinted that this clever psychological thriller may be the last outing for the Parkinson's-plagued shrink. If so, it's a worthy final act. - Qantas Magazine

  • A crime writer at the top of his game. - The Australian

  • Michael Robotham is the real deal. - David Baldacci

  • A superbly crafted thriller with [a] half-dozen credible potential suspects - Courier Mail

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Michael Robotham

Michael Robotham

Michael Robotham is a former feature writer and investigative reporter, who has worked in Britain, Australia and America.

His debut thriller, The Suspect, introduced clinical psychologist Joe O'Loughlin and sold more than a million copies around the world, launching a nine-book series. It has been adapted into an ITV series starring Aidan Turner. Michael's standalone thriller The Secrets She Keeps has also been the basis of two BBC TV series.

He has twice won the prestigious UK Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger Award for best crime novel, as well as the Ian Fleming Steel Dagger for When She Was Good, a Richard & Judy Book Club pick.

Michael lives in Sydney.

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