Michael Robotham on the third in the Cyrus Haven crime fiction series, 'Lying Beside You'

Twenty years ago, Cyrus Haven's family was murdered by his paranoid schizophrenic brother Elias. Now Elias is being released from a secure psychiatric hospital and the question of forgiveness is on Cyrus' mind. As Cyrus prepares for the Elias' homecoming two women go missing and one man is dead. Evie Cormac, now the ward of Cyrus, has an incredible gift for spotting a liar and was a witness to one of the abductions. Dark secrets are revealed as the crimes are unravelled but Cyrus and Evie know better than anyone how the past can come back to haunt you. In this episode Gregory Dobbs chats to Michael Robotham about the developing characters of Cyrus Haven and Evie Cormac, the trouble with having a character like Evie Cormac in the mix, and solving the crime, finding the criminal and keeping your options open in the process of writing.