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A review by marilynw
Shatter by Michael Robotham
4.0
Shatter (Joseph O'Loughlin #3) by Michael Robotham, Sean Barrett (Narrator)
Shatter starts with Joe trying to talk a naked woman from jumping off a bridge. She jumps but something doesn't seem right, if anything can seem right about a suicide. When the woman's sixteen year old daughter contacts him and they walk through the woman's life, Joe is sure the woman was under some kind of influence when she jumped.
And then there is more, a woman connected to the first woman dies and there are many similarities. Against the wishes of his wife, Julianne, Joe dives deep into the murders. He's supposed to be a house husband now (with a part time university job) and he gets no support from his wife when he deviates from their (her) "rest of his life with Parkinson's" plan. I'm not liking Julianne very much, she seems like a real life crusher with her demands but at the same I'm not happy with some of the decisions Joe makes.
The villain in this story is a master at psychological destruction. He is able, with words, to brainwash a person, take over their ability to reason and act for themselves. This is one of the scariest villains I've encountered and a part of me wanted to stop listening to the story. The story is graphic and contains many references to bad things happening to children. Proceed cautiously because this story could be too much for some people.
Published January 1st 2008
Shatter starts with Joe trying to talk a naked woman from jumping off a bridge. She jumps but something doesn't seem right, if anything can seem right about a suicide. When the woman's sixteen year old daughter contacts him and they walk through the woman's life, Joe is sure the woman was under some kind of influence when she jumped.
And then there is more, a woman connected to the first woman dies and there are many similarities. Against the wishes of his wife, Julianne, Joe dives deep into the murders. He's supposed to be a house husband now (with a part time university job) and he gets no support from his wife when he deviates from their (her) "rest of his life with Parkinson's" plan. I'm not liking Julianne very much, she seems like a real life crusher with her demands but at the same I'm not happy with some of the decisions Joe makes.
The villain in this story is a master at psychological destruction. He is able, with words, to brainwash a person, take over their ability to reason and act for themselves. This is one of the scariest villains I've encountered and a part of me wanted to stop listening to the story. The story is graphic and contains many references to bad things happening to children. Proceed cautiously because this story could be too much for some people.
Published January 1st 2008