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I decided to read this book because of the excellent reviews it had received in the local press. Even now some Amazon reviews are 5 star. The main character Joe is supposed to be a renowned psychologist and yet he blunders through this book making bad decision after bad decision. His father is a thief, bigamist, liar and has manged to destroy a number of lives by his surgical ineptitude. The other wife is his father's mistress who also sleeps with other members of this sordid little enclave of people with no morals and no sense of decency. None of the characters in this book are worth caring about. If this is an example of Mr O'Loughlin's work i shall not bother reading anything else of his. I finished the book hoping that something good would come at the end, nothing did.


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The Other Wife 9780733637933 Books Reviews

Poor old Joe O'Loughlin has a tough time being one of Michael Robotham's characters. He has to live with Mr Parkinson, the name he gives the horrible disease that is trying to take over his body. During his long and successful career as a psychologist working with his detective friend Vincent Ruiz to solve many crimes, he has being beaten up, stabbed, shot at and knocked unconscious numerous times. His love life has been no party either and just as his family life was looking up in the previous book, with his estranged wife inviting him to spend summer with her and his daughters, his wife dies suddenly leaving him as sole parent to his two bereaved girls. And now, sixteen months later, just as he's learning to deal with that, his father has been brutally attacked and left with major head injuries after a fall down the stairs in his own home. Not only that, but when he rushes into the ICU he finds a strange woman sitting with his father. Who is she and how does she know his father?

Joe, being Joe, begins to investigate the unknown woman and tries to determine who have attacked his father. As he discovers several suspects and uncovers many secrets going back years, he realises that much that he thought he knew about his father is wrong. Although his father is in a coma and may never speak again, Joe starts to learn that this cold distant man is flawed and has a human side. As he comes to understand him more he realises that his father does love him even though Joe refused to follow in his footsteps and become a surgeon.

Michael Robotham is such a consummate story teller that his books are always well written with inventive plots and memorable characters. He is so good at getting into the heads of his characters, showing their flaws and weaknesses in a way that makes you empathise with them and understand their motives and actions. The end of the book finds Joe in a better place, more accepting of his parents and their flaws and helping his younger daughter Emma come to terms with her mother's death. Hopefully there will be more books in this series so that we can continue to follow Joe's life.
Bestselling International author Michael Robotham returns following The Secrets She Keeps A Novel,Close Your Eyes (Joseph O'Loughlin), and Life or Death with THE OTHER WIFE – a Tour de Force thriller – His best yet and most personal. How well do you know your own family?

Since the author introduced us to Professor Joe O’Loughlin, a clinical psychologist, (Suspect) readers anxiously await the next installment. Thirteen books later and the Professor (a man with a brilliant mind and a crumbling body) is still with us. (thank you). He is still battling Mr. Parkinson (for thirteen years); however, the man sure can get himself into some tight places and dangerous ones (all this stress cannot be good for his medical condition). Here’s hoping in the fictional world that he will receive a magical "cure." We would like him around for a while longer. (please).

“Mr. Parkinson is a cruel puppeteer, tugging at invisible strings, making me dance to music that only he can hear.”

It has been sixteen months since Joe’s wife, Julianne died. A surgical complication. He is still grieving.

“The seasons since then have been like states of grieving. Summer passed in denial and isolation, autumn brought anger, winter blame, and by spring my depression has driven me to seek help.”

For the sake of Joe’s two daughters, Charlie and Emma he moves forward. Family comes first with him. They had moved back to London after selling the cottage in Somerset, and now the three of them live in a top-floor flat. Emma (age 12) is experiencing problems and has not dealt with her grief. Charlie is in her second year at Oxford studying behavioral psychology. Joe is still going to a therapist Dr. Victoria Napastek. She always wants him to verbalize his fears, but he lives through them each day.

He receives an alarming message from the hospital about his father, William O’Loughlin. He has been admitted with severe head injuries. Brain surgery. He is in a medically induced coma. ICU. He turned eighty this past year, and Joe cannot comprehend his dad as a patient. For more than fifty years he was a medical giant – a professor of surgery and public health. Advisor, lecturer, author, commentator, and philanthropist. Their family’s charitable trust – the O’Loughlin Foundation gives millions in research grants each year.

When Joe arrives at the hospital, he expects to his mother. However, it is another woman. This woman claims to be his wife. His other wife. Olivia Blackmore (former tennis star). This woman is in her forties. How can this be possible? She says they are married. Is she after his money? However, he is married to his mother —has been for more than sixty years. Does his mother know his dad is leading a double life?

Joe thinks she is delusional. A liar. There was an accident. Who pushed his dad down the steps and attacked him? After further investigation, there are also older bruises. Joe calls in the family. He demands answers. Repeatedly blows to the head. Blunt force trauma. He and his dad had never been close. He respected him, but he feels like he never lived up. Does his mother know about this woman? He had never had reason to question his father’s integrity or doubt his love for his other. He does not want to believe he is a liar, a coward, and a betrayer. It cannot be true.

However, this is much more complex than an affair. Someone tried to murder his father. Olivia, her troubled son, his friend, or does it have to do with the family trust or something more sinister? What is Olivia hiding? She is vulnerable, beautiful, and dangerous. Why was his mom in London?

Joe is obsessed with getting to the bottom of this mystery and with the help of his pal Vincent Ruiz (former retired Scotland Yard detective) which is now a corporate fraud investigator (love him). Whatever Joe’s dad is guilty of, he has to believe he did not deserve this. DI Stuart Macdermid becomes involved, and he does not like Joe’s interference. However, Joe seems to like DS Hawthorn (Kate). Will she be a new love interest? What about her past? Will she compromise her position and all she has worked to help Joe?

They have to follow the money.

What do the family attorneys and friends have to do with his dad? Are they aware he has two lives? Who will gain by murdering his dad? Then he discovers there are missing monies and discrepancies from the foundation after a recent audit. Why is his mother taking his dad’s side? How could he do this to her? Furthermore, why did she tolerate his behavior?

There is another twist. His dad has been sending checks to a Bethany D’Marco. Joe is shocked there is more in his dad’s past than he ever imagined. Her family. Medical malpractice? A coverup? Who is this man?

A week ago his father was a great provider and part of a medical dynasty. Now he is a bigamist and an adulterer who may never recover his faculties. None of the shocking events fit with the man Joe knows as his father.

“I wish I didn’t care, but I do. I’ve seen a ghost, and that ghost is my father; an oversized man with a heart of stone who once occupied a pedestal, but whose legacy is as fouled and be-shitted as a London statue.”

“Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.” – Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

Wow! Brilliant. I love this series and in particular, enjoy the author’s writing (huge fan). Psychologically rich. One of my favorite authors – with each book I say “my favorite.” From the standalone and the series. What makes his work so unique is the sophisticated character development. There is always a story, flawed characters with strong family ties and emotions.

Plus, the killer plot, twists, intense suspense. Multi-layered and complex, this is no ordinary domestic suspense novel. When you think you have figured out the killer, there is another twist. Everyone is a suspect, but the need for revenge goes deep. Unputdownable!

From fathers-sons, fathers-daughters, family, grief, forgiveness, secrets, betrayal, deception, cover-ups, tragedy, revenge, and acceptance. THE OTHER WIFE has it all. Everything you could want in a crime thriller. My Top Books of 2018 and my favorite thriller of the year, thus far.

This series is prime for the small or big screen. Movie-Worthy. Joe reminds me of Michael Connelly's Bosch. Always pulled between their cases and their personal family lives. Tormented. Highly recommend. If you have not read the other books in the series, each one can be read as a standalone; however, if you are like me, once you read one of his books, you will find yourself buying the entire backlist. Have read all his books and they continue to land on my Top Books each year.

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I decided to read this book because of the excellent reviews it had received in the local press. Even now some reviews are 5 star. The main character Joe is supposed to be a renowned psychologist and yet he blunders through this book making bad decision after bad decision. His father is a thief, bigamist, liar and has manged to destroy a number of lives by his surgical ineptitude. The other wife is his father's mistress who also sleeps with other members of this sordid little enclave of people with no morals and no sense of decency. None of the characters in this book are worth caring about. If this is an example of Mr O'Loughlin's work i shall not bother reading anything else of his. I finished the book hoping that something good would come at the end, nothing did.