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2000s: The eighth outing for Joe O’Loughlin
Close Your Eyes (Joseph O’Loughlin 8)
What you need to know before your trail
A mother and her teenage daughter are found murdered in a remote farmhouse, one defiled by multiple stab wounds and the other left lying like Sleeping Beauty waiting for her Prince. Reluctantly, clinical psychologist Joe O’Loughlin is drawn into the investigation when a former student, calling himself ‘the Mindhunter’, jeopardises the police inquiry by leaking details to the media and stirring up public anger.
With no shortage of suspects and tempers beginning to fray, Joe discover links between these murders and a series of brutal attacks where his victims have been choked unconscious and had the letter ‘A’ carved into their foreheads.
As the case becomes ever more complex, nothing is quite what it seems and soon Joe’s fate, and that of those closest to him, become intertwined with a merciless, unpredictable killer . . .
Locations
Reset- England- London
- A: Rainville Rd
- B: University of London
- England - Somerset
- C: Clevedon
- D: Clevedon - Franciscan Friary
- E: Marine Lake
- England - Bristol
- F: Royal Portbury Docks
- G: Saint Michael's Hospital
Travel Guide
Travel and explore the London of Michael Robotham
The city of London is his home and home turf but his work takes him across the UK in many of the books. No matter where he goes, there is a good yet gritty guide to the city where he is. the author carves out a vivid picture of the setting, atmosphere and showcases the shadows of the city, you might not see otherwise.
There’s not that much of London in this book as most of the book takes place in Clevedon Somerset and Bristol. Clevedon is where the fictional Windy Farm is located where the crime scene is also discovered:
Clevedon – Windy Hill Farm
Fictional farm
Turning off the road, I cross a cattle grate and drive along a rutted track with six-foot-high hedges on either side. I see nothing until I turn the next corner and a whitewashed two-storey farmhouse comes into view, tucked har against the ridge, protected from the worst of the prevailing winds.
The farmhouse (despite it being a crime scene an fictional, it sounds lovel!)
I study the farmhouse, which is seventeenth -century Grade II listed, with mullioned windows and flowerboxes on the sills. it’s set on sixteen acres with an orchard, walled garden, old granary, stables, milking shed and chicken -coop”
Clevedon
Clevedon is one of those sleepy English seaside towns that seem to burst into life for a few months every summer and then hibernate for the rest of the year. Quaint. Historic. Swept clean. The locals cling to their traditions and complain about the rich interlopers who blow in from London or Bristol and buy up the best homes with the best views.
BookTrail Boarding Pass: Close Your Eyes (Joseph O’Loughlin 8)
Destination: London, Clevedon, Bristol Author/guide: Michael Robotham Departure Time: 2000s
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