When You Are Mine
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4.0 • 6 Ratings
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- £9.99
Publisher Description
THE GRIPPING STANDALONE THRILLER FROM THE RICHARD & JUDY BESTSELLING AUTHOR, THE MASTER OF SUSPENSE WHO BROUGHT US THE SECRETS SHE KEEPS
'Why won't he let you go?' I ask.
'He thinks he owns me.'
To Philomena McCarthy, being a police officer means never turning your back on someone in trouble. So when a decorated detective beats his girlfriend and the case is covered up, Phil secretly helps her.
But as Phil lets her new friend deeper into her life, sinister things start happening.
And by the time she's truly afraid, it's already too late . . .
'No one does suspense better' STEPHEN KING
'With each new book, I say it's his best. Well, THIS is his best' LINWOOD BARCLAY
'Superb. Twists the knife with skill and precision' GLOBE AND MAIL
'A heart-clutching psychological thriller' PEOPLE
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Australian author Michael Robotham is known for crafting suspenseful novels that also offer distinctly three-dimensional characters. That’s certainly true of When You Are Mine, which examines the threat of both toxic friendship and domestic abuse within the frame of a pacy crime thriller. The novel introduces Philomena McCarthy, a young London police officer raised in the long shadow of her gangster father and uncle. When Philomena responds to a domestic assault involving a fellow officer, she’s drawn towards the victim before realising that their budding friendship has come with a great many red flags—and embroiled both of them in a murder with far-reaching consequences. English actor Katy Sobey brings Philomena to life with grounded sensitivity, both here and again in 2025’s The White Crow.
Customer Reviews
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Philomena McCarthy affectionally known as Phil is from a background of criminals in her Dad’s side. She chooses to stay with her mother when her parents split.
One day she is involved in a bus bombing and a kind, reassuring female police officer who looked after her makes Phil decide that’s what she wants to do as a career.
Fast forward to the present Phil is a Pc in London with the Met and is really enjoying it and developing good instincts.
One night her and her partner get a call out to a domestic and unbeknown to Phil the abuser is a decorated officer who takes a swing at her and she floors him and arrests him. Not only is he a decorated officer but he belongs to some sort of group where they seem to be untouchable.
The woman Tempe who is being abused is not his wife is reluctant to press charges and Phil realises to her cost virtually too late that befriending this woman will change her life and not necessarily for the better. Phil even befriends the wife of the officer and that almost ends in disaster for Phil. Her only option is to turn to the father who she has been estranged from for many years.
In Phil’s quest for justice she often went too far which I felt stemmed from trying so hard to escape her background. There were warnings and a murder and the more digging she did the worse things became for her. I just felt her instincts were good but her execution at times needed more thought and there was a touch of naivety in her thinking and the ending was just a bit too neat.
Will she get to the bottom of things? Is the very job she holds so dear leaving her clutches……