I love a good mystery and Michael Robotham is one of my favourite writers in the genre. This is the eighth book in his series featuring clinical psychologist Joe O’Loughlin. As Close Your Eyes opens, O’Loughlin is still longing to reconcile with his estranged wife and is given new hope when she invites him to spend the summer with her and their two daughters. Even though he promised her that he had given up consulting with police, he finds himself reluctantly being drawn into a case about a mother and daughter who were murdered in a remote farmhouse. The police have been investigating the crime for weeks and turn to O’Loughlin to provide fresh insight into the stalled investigation. Even though the case may put his hoped for reconciliation at risk, he agrees to conducting a review with the help of his friend retired London detective Vincent Ruiz. As O’Loughlin explains his own inability to refuse: “People sometimes say the three most powerful words in the English language are ‘I love you’, but they’re wrong. The three most powerful words are ‘Please help me’.”
The plot is well-crafted with a long list of suspects and enough twists and turns that the reader keeps guessing what will happen next right up until the final dramatic denouement. I found myself staying up to the wee hours of the morning, promising myself I would go to bed shortly, but instead reading it straight through to the end.
If you like your mysteries fast-paced and not too gory with a little domestic drama thrown in, I would recommend Close Your Eyes or, even better, start with earlier titles in the series, if you have not yet read them.
Four out of five smileys. 
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