Watch Me

Author/Guide: Angela Clarke

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2000s: A disturbing and cautionary tale of what can happen with intimate pictures on line

ISBN: 978-0008174613
Genre: Crime, Psychological, Technothriller, Thriller

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What you need to know before your trail

YOU HAVE SIX SECONDS TO READ THIS MESSAGE…

The body of a 15-year-old is found hours after she sends a desperate message to her friends. It looks like suicide, until a second girl disappears.

This time, the message is sent directly to the Metropolitan Police – and an officer’s younger sister is missing.

DS Nasreen Cudmore and journalist Freddie Venton will stop at nothing to find her. But whoever’s behind the notes is playing a deadly game of hide and seek – and the clock is ticking.

YOU HAVE 24 HOURS TO SAVE THE GIRL’S LIFE. MAKE THEM COUNT.

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Hertfordshire

Hertfordshire might be the setting of this novel but this is a story which could unravel anywhere. And that is the scary thing. Anyone who sends a picture via email, Snapchat, Instagram etc could be the subject of a revenge porn attack – where intimate pictures are sent to sites so that anyone can see them. They then exist in cyberspace until someone takes them down but even then the damage has been done and traces of that picture exist for ever more.

The dynamic of the Snapchat world is a one not explored much in fiction – messages are sent and then disappear after a certain time. Some are sent with a challenge – along the lines of ‘This is your mission should you choose to accept it…this message will self destruct in 10 seconds etc….”

This time a suicide note is sent with the challenge to police that the girl in questions will die within 24 hours…that’s how long you have to save her. Well, quite a challenge for the police and a murder mystery set in a very real and cruel modern world.