Kate Riley works on a new team of detectives, and it's her first time being the lead on a case involves a young girl named Ruby who has disappeared. Kate is working on this case with another new detective Zain who is a little over the top and not too many people like him. But Kate and Zain both know they have a job to do.
Ruby has become a rising star on YouTube. Now she is missing, and her parents have no idea why someone would take her. The parents seem to think that her boyfriend Daniel has something to do with the disappearance. Danial was also a blogger like Ruby, but never become a big star like her.
Everything seems to point to a company called Mindnet, the company who hired Ruby to blog for them. Could they be the ones behind her disappearance? But some things seemed to take them right back to Ruby's parents. Not to mention the fact that right outside her parents' land is a group of people who live there. Some of the girls from this group also seem to disappear, and no one seems to care as they are all runaways anyway.
Alex Caan since this is your debut book, all I have to say is keep them coming. CUT TO THE BONE is a great psychological thriller. It kept me guessing through the whole storyline. Never saw the ending coming in this one. I never put this book down. Read it long into the night, as I needed to know how it was going to end.
Caan also has some other stories in CUT TO THE BONE. There is the back story of Abby and her mother. There is the story of the caregiver that Abby is also having an affair with. Zain also has a strange backstory. But Alex does lay it all out, so you don't get confused.
Would love to see more stories about Abby and what crime she will next be assigned. Hopefully, Zain is also included in the future, too.
Ruby Day is a young vlogger, a rising star of YouTube, and a wholesome role-model to millions of teenage girls. And she is missing. Detective Inspector Kate Riley, the head of a new high-powered team of detectives, and Detective Superintendent Zain Harris, the newest member of the team and a poster boy for multiracial policing, are brought in for what they expect to be a routine runaway. Then a video of a wild-eyed Ruby running through the woods and begging for her life is posted online. Amid mounting hysteria and heightened media coverage calling for Ruby’s safe return, Riley and Harris must decode the dark secrets of this seemingly squeaky-clean internet darling. Their hunt leads them to a smug ex-boyfriend who hungers for online fame of his own, a culture of online cyber bullying by anonymous thugs, and a corporation of ruthless advertisers who exploit online celebrities for their network of eager consumers. It becomes increasingly clear that the case is more complicated and nightmarish than Riley and Harris could have imagined. And the videos keep coming . . . This debut novel is a slick, contemporary police procedural that explores the dichotomy of public life and one lived online. For fans of Megan Abbot and Kimberly McCreight, Cut to the Bone provides a harrowing glimpse into the friendships, ambitions, and secrets of the internet generation.
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