One Missing Girl. Two Million Suspects.
Ruby is a vlogger, a rising star of YouTube and a heroine to millions of teenage girls.
And she’s missing…
But she’s an adult – the police aren’t too worried.
Until the video’s uploaded…
Ruby, in the dirt, pleading for her life.
Enter Detective Inspector Kate Riley; the Met’s rising star and the head of a new team of investigators with the best resources money can buy. Among them, Detective Sergeant Zain Harris, the poster boy for multiracial policing. But can Kate wholly trust him – and more importantly, can she trust herself around him?
As hysteria builds amongst the press and Ruby’s millions of fans, Kate and her team are under pressure to get results, and fast, but as they soon discover, the world of YouTube vloggers and social media is much darker than anyone could have imagined.
And the videos keep coming…
Enter the strange and murky world of the vloggers. I’ve got more than a passing familiarity with it, given my daughter’s fascination with YouTube and the parade of celebrity vloggers with millions of followers whose lives we follow. Oh, I admit it, I’m just as much of a fan of YouTube, and as you’ve probably guessed, am rather fond of the world of social media. Happily my experience of it is rather less sinister than Ruby’s…
It’s Ruby’s disappearance takes centre stage in the drama which unfolds and the cast of characters who inhabit her world, but the key (and more interesting) dynamic is that between DI Kate Riley and DS Zain Harris. Both are fascinating in their own ways, and both have their secrets. Riley has moved across the world to start again in the UK, and Harris has his own troubled past.
Cut to the Bone is a dark and atmospheric police procedural with a modern twist. It’s a fast-paced read and a classic page-turner. Just one more page, just one more chapter, where will the fickle finger of suspicion alight next?
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Many thanks to Emily at Bonnier Zaffre for the advance copy.
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