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The Night Ferry by Michael Robotham **Why isn’t Michael Robotham a huge name in Australia? He’s won a Ned Kelly, achieved very impressive sales in the UK (over 150,000 copies of his debut, The Suspect) and he writes a damn good book.Published 1 April, 2007 
Why isn’t Michael Robotham a huge name in Australia? He’s won a Ned Kelly, achieved very impressive sales in the UK (over 150,000 copies of his debut, The Suspect) and he writes a damn good book. In this, his third in a linked chain of novels, DC Alisha Barba is about to resume her work for the police department after recovering from a serious spinal injury sustained during a previous case. Alisha’s return to official duties is interrupted by a plea for help from an old friend who fears that someone is trying to steal her unborn baby. The investigation leads Ali to Amsterdam and a world of people smuggling and sex trafficking, where the goodies are morally ambiguous and the villains are very black indeed. Robotham’s books are relentlessly fast paced and he has a gift for fleshing out the character of a likeable and multifaceted protagonist in the midst of a narrative that starts at a sprint from the first line and doesn’t flag until the last. If excellent characterisation, deft plotting and a light touch count for anything, Michael Robotham is a name that should be on all of our lips. Sophie Groom is the marketing coordinator for Leading Edge Books This review from Australian Bookseller & Publisher magazine is reproduced by kind permission of Thorpe-Bowker, a division of R R Bowker LLC. © Copyright 2008, Thorpe-Bowker More from Fiction Book Reviews
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