Lying Beside You

Cyrus Haven and Evie Cormac return in Robotham's latest "expertly paced and psychologically acute" (Kirkus Reviews) thriller that's "one of his best, suspenseful and hard to put down" (Stephen King).

If I could tell you one thing about my brother, it would be this: two days after his nineteenth birthday, he killed our parents and our twin sisters because he heard voices in his head. As defining events go, nothing else comes close for Elias, or for me.

As a boy, Cyrus Haven survived a family massacre and slowly pieced his life back together. Now, after almost twenty years, his brother is applying to be released from a secure psychiatric hospital--and Cyrus is expected to forgive Elias and welcome him home.

In this "brilliant novel" (The Globe and Mail, Toronto), Elias is returning to a very different world. Cyrus is now a successful psychologist, working with the police, sharing his house with Evie Cormac, a damaged and gifted teenager who can tell when someone is lying. Evie has gone back to school and is working part-time at an inner-city bar, but she continues to struggle with authority and following rules.

When a man is murdered and his daughter disappears, Cyrus is called in to profile the killer and help piece together Maya Kirk's last hours. Police believe she was drugged and driven away from the same bar where Evie is working. Soon, a second victim is taken, and Evie is the only person who glimpsed the man behind the wheel.

But there's a problem. Only two people believe her. One is Cyrus.

The other is the killer.

Author: Michael Robotham
Publisher: Scribner Book Company
Published: 02/14/2023
Pages: 352
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.1lbs
Size: 12.00h x 8.00w x 1.90d
ISBN: 9781982166489


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 09/01/2022 pg. 7
Publishers Weekly 12/12/2022
Kirkus Reviews 12/15/2022
Booklist 01/01/2023 pg. 31
Library Journal 02/10/2023 pg. 1

About the Author
Michael Robotham is a former investigative journalist whose bestselling psychological thrillers have been translated into twenty-five languages. He has twice won a Ned Kelly Award for Australia's best crime novel, for Lost in 2005 and Shatter in 2008. His recent novels include When She Was Good, winner of the UK's Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award for best thriller; The Secrets She Keeps; Good Girl, Bad Girl; When You Are Mine; and Lying Beside You. After living and writing all over the world, Robotham settled his family in Sydney, Australia.