Life or Death (2014) is a crime novel by Australian author Michael Robotham.

[1] This is his first book to not involve either of his two main characters; Joe O'Loughlin and Vincent Ruiz.

[2] Audie Palmer escapes from a Texas jail the day before the end of his ten-year sentence for armed robbery and second-degree murder.

William Shakespeare Jeff Popple in The Sydney Morning Herald found the novel, at its core, "a gripping thriller".

[3] Marilyn Stasio in The New York Times noted that the author "isn't entirely at ease with the Texas vernacular, but he's responsive enough to the idiosyncrasies of the culture".