Shatter (novel)
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| Author | Michael Robotham |
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| Language | English |
| Genre | Novel |
| Publisher | Sphere Books, London |
Publication date | 2008 |
| Publication place | Australia |
| Media type | Print Hardback & Paperback |
| Pages | 466 pp |
| ISBN | 978-1-84744-177-5 (first edition, hardback) |
| OCLC | 176833215 |
| Preceded by | The Night Ferry |
| Followed by | Bombproof |
Shatter is a 2008 psychological thriller novel written by the Australian author Michael Robotham.[1]
Professor Joseph O'Loughlin (referred to as Joe throughout the novel) is tasked by the police with stopping a woman, Christine Wheeler, from committing suicide, only to fail. When Wheeler's teenage daughter appears onto his doorstep, she insists that her mother would not have jumped off a bridge as she did, for she was not suicidal and had a fear of heights. Haunted by his failure to save her and driven by a need to understand what caused her death, Joe searches for the truth, only to be caught up in a string of murders all while dealing with his own problems with Parkinson's disease and his marriage.