Lying Beside You

Cyrus Haven, forensic psychologist and profiler, returns in Robotham’s powerful and complex series (following When She was Good). As Cyrus contemplates the potential day release of his brother, Elias, from long-term psychiatric confinement, he also copes with his housemate, Evie, who struggles with multiple demons of her own. Evie is a complicated character with a remarkable gift: she instinctively knows when someone is telling the truth. After having served most of his sentence for sexual assault and actual bodily harm, Mitchell Coates is referred to Cyrus’s clinical practice by his parole officer. Mitch desperately needs work, and Cyrus offers him some odd jobs at his house. Mitch gratefully accepts, and thus meets Evie, who realizes that he is innocent. Then the body of a young woman is found, and another woman goes missing. The woman’s death harkens back eerily to the crime supposedly committed by Mitch. Cyrus knows that he must unravel a maze of missed evidence and possible corruption before the missing woman falls victim to the murderer. Meanwhile, Elias returns home…