Master of mystery Michael Robotham returns with another gritty blend of police procedural and psychological thriller in The White Crow.
Michael appears at Redcliffe Library as part of the Brisbane Writers Festival extension events.
His novel features intrepid constable Philomena McCarthy who is investigating the link between a series of crimes. She is confronted with the ties that bind when all the evidence points to her mob boss father.
Free. Bookings required. For adults. Arrive 12:00 PM for a 12:30 PM start. Michael will sign copies of his book after our event. Book sales on the day courtesy of QBD The Bookshop.
About the author
Two times Gold Dagger winning and twice Edgar short-listed author Michael Robotham was born in Australia in November 1960 and grew up in small country towns that had more dogs than people and more flies than dogs. He escaped in 1979 and became a cadet journalist on an afternoon newspaper in Sydney.
For the next 14 years he wrote for newspapers and magazines in Australia, Britain and America. As a senior feature writer for the UK’s Mail on Sunday he was among the first people to view the letters and diaries of Czar Nicholas II and his wife Empress Alexandra, unearthed in the Moscow State Archives in 1991
He also gained access to Stalin’s Hitler files, which had been missing for nearly 50 years until a cleaner stumbled upon a cardboard box that had been misplaced and misfiled.
In 1993 he quit journalism to become a ghostwriter, collaborating with politicians, pop stars, psychologists, adventurers and showbusiness personalities to write their autobiographies. Twelve of these non-fiction titles were bestsellers with combined sales of more than 2 million copies.
His partially completed first novel, a psychological thriller called The Suspect, caused a bidding war at the London Book Fair in 2002. Soon afterwards it was chosen by the world’s largest consortium of book clubs as only the fifth “International Book of the Month”, making it the top recommendation to 28 million book club members in 15 countries.