August Riordan #3
Bleak House Books
August 2007
On Sale: August 15, 2007
Featuring: August Riordan; Chris Duckworth; Ellen Stockwell
341 pages ISBN: 193255758X EAN: 9781932557589 Paperback Add to Wish List
Caroline Stockwell has a secret: she and her best friend Monica are "cam girls."
Soliciting cash donations and gifts via Amazon.com wish lists from anonymous admirers, the young women have put up a web site featuring still photographs, video and web diaries (aka blogs) to help pay their way through art college. But when Caroline goes missing and her mother Ellen engages jazz bass-playing PI August Riordan to find her, Riordan discovers her secret and it appears to everyone that someone she met through the web site is responsible for her disappearance.
Set against the real-world backdrop of Internet predators using social networking sites like MySpace.com to find and ensnare their victims, Candy from Strangers is the first novel to explore the phenomenon of teenagers and young adults displaying themselves online in exchange for material favorsβoften without their parents' knowledgeβ which some are calling the newest form of prostitution.
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