He started the book wanting to write again about Joe, but in terms of plot, he wanted there to be a preying schoolteacher in a small community. ''Here are these absolute little angels,'' he says, ''these little girls (who) can change into princess bitchfaces overnight.'' Robotham identifies with the mistakes Joe makes, particularly when confronted by the rapid changes that girls go through in adolescence. Their ages correspond, they have teenage daughters and they share the fears that most parents have. Robotham, himself the father of three daughters, concedes that the psychologist is his most autobiographical creation. Joe O'Loughlin is also trying to work out how to be a parent to his two girls. But the narrative leads Joe into a world of right-wing extremists and predatory school teachers.Īt the same time Joe is trying to deal with his own difficulties - he and his wife have separated and his oldest daughter, Charlie, remains traumatised from her experiences in Shatter, Robotham's earlier novel that was admired for the chilling scenario he created. Joe is trying to help his daughter's best friend, Sienna, who appears to have brutally murdered her father. And I thought how cruel it would be to have this brilliant mind in a body that was slowly crumbling.'') (''I didn't want a normal hero who could outfight, outrun, outf- anyone I wanted my main character to have this brilliant mind but a blind spot when it came to his own family and relationships.
Two of them, Lost and Shatter, won Ned Kellys for best Australian crime novel.īleed for Me again features Joe O'Loughlin, his psychologist leading man who suffers from early-onset Parkinson's disease. Robotham ignored his mum's advice - always a risky thing for a son to do - and has since then published a further five novels, with his most recent, Bleed for Me, out this week. When he explained that The Suspect deal was for several books so he was going to write another, she said: ''Do you think that's wise, dear? Maybe you should just rest on your laurels.'' After the book came out, she asked him what he was going to do next.
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