The Secrets She Keeps

Multi-award-winning Australian author Michael Robotham has done it again - another accomplished crime novel unlike anything he has written before… an elegantly constructed domestic noir about envy, marriage and what lies beneath - SYDNEY MORNING HERALD

The plot unfolds with clever, ruthless efficiency… This is a taut, scary and effective thriller - WEEKEND AUSTRALIAN

one of crime’s greatest practitioners… a ripper, suspenseful read - THE AUSTRALIAN WOMEN’S WEEKLY

a winner… simply impossible to put down - HERALD SUN

insightful psychological thriller - NEW YORK TIMES

THE SECRETS SHE KEEPS might be the best Michael Robotham book yet. And that’s saying something. - LINWOOD BARCLAY

Robotham presents a devastating dissection of the stories we tell ourselves and how dramatically these fictions can break down - iBOOKS REVIEW

Before becoming a novelist, Michael Robotham was a feature writer and investigative reporter working in Britain, Australia and America, and with clinical and forensic psychologists as they helped police investigate complex, psychologically driven crimes.

2024 marked the 20-year anniversary of the publication of his debut thriller, The Suspect, which introduced clinical psychologist Joe O’Loughlin, sold more than a million copies around the world and is now a major TV series starring Aidan Turner on ABC TV. Michael’s standalone thriller The Secrets She Keeps was adapted for TV by Network 10 and the BBC.

Michael is the only Australian to twice win the UK’s prestigious Gold Dagger Award for best crime novel, for Life or Death and Good Girl, Bad Girl as well as the Ian Fleming Steel Dagger for When She Was Good. Lying Beside You was shortlisted for the Australian Crime Writers Association’s Ned Kelly Award for Best Crime Fiction 2023. Storm Child, his fourth novel in his globally bestselling Cyrus Haven and Evie Cormac series, was a No. 1 national bestseller in Australia. It was shortlisted for the Ned Kelly Award for Best Crime Fiction 2025. The White Crow is the second book in his Philomena McCarthy series, following on from the internationally bestselling When You Are Mine.

Michael lives in Sydney.