When You Are Mine
Reviewed By Ian Banks August 9, 2021
Author Michael Robotham
Distributor: Hachette Australia
ISBN: 9780733645921
Publisher: Hachette Australia
Release Date: July 2021
Website: https://www.hachette.com.au
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Touted as the best of the best from crime writer Michael Robotham, When you are mine is a standalone thriller that focuses on the dark side of obsession, passion and revenge.
A Crime Boss, a mistress, a police woman and an investigative journalist forms the basis for an edge of the seat psychological crime thriller that demands to be read from beginning to end. What could possibly go wrong apart from everything.
Philomena (Phil to her friends) is an up and coming cop in the Metropolitan Police Force, defying the odds of her family history; her father is a well-known crime boss, her uncles all having done time for one crime or another.
She responds to a call for help, with the assailant being somewhat difficult about being arrested, so she deals with him promptly, handcuffing him and charging him with a range of offenses. Trouble is he is a much decorated Top Cop and also a member of the infamous ‘old boy’s club’ within the Met.
The woman, Tempe, his mistress creates a bond with Phil and as Phil becomes the persecuted within the Met, she and Tempe form a friendship of sorts, which as time goes by and strange incidences begin to occur, leaves Phil wondering who she can trust.
When a journalist’s body is discovered wrapped in chains attached to a lump of concert it is considered as a gangland killing, and as the journalist has links to both Phil and her father, the Met is keen to use this to their advantage, which they do with ruthless precision.
Phil is forced out of the Met, has to face the fact that being part of crime family is something she has to face up to rather than run away from, as well as try and work out who is trying to frame her, sets the scene for a complex and riveting plot that is all too believable.
Loosely based on the issues faced by the Metropolitan Police Force in Britain some few years ago, when the extent of the ‘old boy’s network was laid bare for public inspection, the reality of the many cover-ups makes for terrific background material for a host of seriously chilling crime thrillers of which Robotham in When you are mine, mines for pure gold.
When you are mine is Robotham at his best.