My Review
It’s the norm for everyday society, we are an online generation. Surfing the net, we chat, we comment, we watch videos. What happens when you witness something on a live stream feed, a sexual assault, Kate did……….........Trust Me

Kate is a character held in high regard, a pillar of society, a headmistress at the local school, she witnessed a sexual assault online, the video content was removed, the evidence gone and no other witnesses. The police are reluctant to pursue the matter, who will take Kate seriously. Freddie and Nas are investigating a missing person associated with gangs, they cross paths with the missing person’s report of the girl online, could they be the same person, is it gang related.
Freddie is a character rebuffed by many of the police officers she works with due to her being a civilian. She is actually quite a wild character with some of the antics she gets up to, she doesn’t seem to care too much about what people think. I like the fact she thinks out of the box, doesn’t always follow protocol, it sometimes gets results other times lands Freddie in trouble. Nas on the other hand follows protocol, she can be quite a stiff character who has built herself a backbone that has no bend I put this down to Nas being career driven and working in a vastly male organisation. Freddie and Nas are like chalk and cheese, very different characters but working in a partnership that brings the best out in each other.

Trust Me is the third instalment in the Social Media Murder books, Angel has produced a plotline which is highly feasible due to our love of Social Media and the Internet as a whole. Once something is posted it can’t be unseen, you can delete it but someone will already have seen it. Angela has written an unforgettable book……………………..Trust Me

Thanks to NetGalley, Avon Books UK and to Angela Clarke for an Advance Reader Copy in exchange for an honest review.

I've thoroughly enjoyed Angela Clarke's series so far and, although I found this one a little slow to start, it is another tense outing for Freddie and Nas.

The characters - new and old - are good, it's quite scary in places but there are also some light-hearted moments to lift the mood. I really hope there is more to come in this series.

Thank you to NetGalley and Avon Books UK for the ARC of Trust Me.

I really liked the story and the ending was spectacular, with a great message and a lot to think about. How we can’t live without social media and that it’s important to teach our kids to be careful. I wanted to give it five stars, but why did Freddie and Nasreen have to fight through the whole book? That was the one thing I didn’t like. I know that both women have their problems and that everybody argues sometimes. But they are supposed to be friends, best friends, they should have each others backs not make things worse. Besides that I can’t wait to read more about these intelligent, young women. I chose to read this book and all opinions in this review are my own and completely unbiased. Thanks to NetGalley and Avon Books UK!

Trust me by Angela Clarke.
What do you do if you witness a crime…but no-one believes you?


When Kate sees a horrific attack streamed live on her laptop, she calls the police in a state of shock. But when they arrive, the video has disappeared – and she can’t prove anything. Desperate to be believed, Kate tries to find out who the girl in the video could be – and who attacked her.

Freddie and Nas are working on a missing persons case, but the trail has gone cold. When Kate contacts them, they are the only ones to listen and they start to wonder – are the two cases connected?
Absolutely fantastic read with brilliant characters. Twist and plots. 5*. Netgalley and avon books UK.

Trust Me is the latest book from Angela Clarke and it reunites us with DS Nasreen Cudmore and Freddie Venton.

Kate sees a horrific murder - witnessed live via a live video stream but the police don't seem to believe her and when the police eventually arrive the idea has disappeared. Nas and Freddie are working on a missing persons case and even Kate contacts them, they wonder if the cases could be linked.

This book is tense and fast paced. I read it in just over a day and was drawn in from the first page. Nas and Freddie are great characters and work extremely well together. Along with a great plot line, this is the fabulous third book in the brilliant social media murders series and is definitely worth 5 stars.

Thank you to NetGalley, Avon and Angela Clarke for the chance to review.

Trust Me is the third novel in Angela Clarke's social media series, and as always this author manages to send a chill down my spine when I consider what could happen to anyone who partakes in social media of any kind on a daily basis.

Kate is watching videos being live streamed online when she witnesses a horrific sexual attack on a young girl that culminates in violence. Kate is horrified and does what she considers to be the right thing by reporting the crime to the Police.

However by the time the Police arrive, the video has been removed from the internet without a trace left behind. No other witnesses have reported a similar offence and Kate is forced to let the matter lie, shocked that the Police have questioned her own judgement after spotting a glass of wine on her table.

She knows what she saw.

Or does she?

Luckily Kate has connections to Freddie Venton, a Civilian Police Social Media consultant who alongside DS Nasreen Cudmore are working on a missing persons case that could be connected to local gangs. Could one of the gang members be behind this? Could the missing girl be the girl in the video?

Previous readers of this series will know that Freddie's mind, much like her mouth runs at a million miles an hour, and she is admirably keen to help Kate. But as always doesn't put an awful lot of thought into her actions before she carries them out.

Inevitably this leads her to trouble, but Freddie isn't afraid of a little trouble if it means getting the Police the right result and the criminals bought to justice. As always Nas is on hand to try and help her friend, but not if it involves breaking the rules. Could Freddie have gone too far this time? If so, just who will be there to back her up when it all goes wrong?

This is book three of a series and as with all series books, although the main story is self-contained, to get the very best from the characters, especially with respect to their backstories and development, it is best to start from book one and read in order. The previous books have both been good and the characters within somewhat complex that I would recommend this course of action for this series more than most.
As with the previous two books in this series, on completion of this one I went back to check all my internet privacy. With new technologies popping up pretty much weekly, it's easy to get complacent and let things slide but reading books like this one always triggers my spidey senses and makes me a bit more vigilant. Hey, it's better than staying scared you know!
This book centres around live streamed videos. Kate is surfing the net for stuff to watch and stumbles across a live video that appears to show someone being assaulted and killed. Shocked by this, she does the only thing she can do; she reports it. But, being as it was live-streamed, the video is gone and with it, any evidence of its existence so the police are pretty much powerless to do anything, even if they believed her, which she suspects isn't the case. She does however have connections and it is to Freddie and Nas she turns to help her. They are supposed to be carrying out their own assignments into missing persons' cases but hey, never one to stick to the rules, Freddie's interest is piqued enough to muddy the waters of her position within the Police to try to help.
As with the previous books we have the chalk and cheese pairing of Nas and Freddie. Both with very differing agendas and ways of seeing things but complementing each other perfectly. They are united in their working situations both being rather precarious even if for vastly differing reasons. But, at the end of the day, both being eager for justice. Just at differing costs and in different ways.
As the story progresses, the action ramped up to almost frenetic proportions, culminating is what was for me an extremely exciting and thrilling conclusion. I've already mentioned my fears regarding internet security and privacy but this series exposes the evils of technology whilst also keeping the balance by highlighting the good it does too. If the author isn't herself a technology guru, she definitely does her research as all the techno parts of the book come across as completely credible and, for luddites like me, very well explained.
Characterisation was, as always, pretty spot on. I am already familiar with most of the main players through the previous books and am happy to report that they are all developing nicely and consistently. Maturing well like fine wines really! I am especially impressed with Freddie as she strives to find her way in life.
Pacing is also excellent throughout, the story full of action both physical and cerebral in manner which increases nicely throughout until, as already mentioned, the thrilling finale which to be honest left me a bit gobsmacked but totally satisfied.
All in all a good addition to what is shaping up to be a great series. Roll on book four.

My thanks go to the Publisher and Netgalley for the chance to read this book.

Trust Me is very much a novel of our times. I whizzed through this book, it kept me entertained and wanting to find out what was going to happen next. A dark intruiging story that could so easily be a true story, it's quite chilling. I will certainly read more from this author.

Thank you!

Trust Me is book three in the social media murder series set in London.

It opens with a young girl, running scared.

Late one night, Kate stumbles across something shocking via a live video upload on the internet. She reports the incident to the police, but when they follow it up, the video has been deleted; the incident is filed. Concerned no one is taking her seriously, Kate makes contact with the media and does a live interview.

Cyber-crime chasers, Nasreen and Freddie, are working on a gang related case when they are named as police contacts by Kate in her TV appeal. More witnesses to the video come forward; now, the case is taken seriously. Freddie uses her investigative journalist and social media skills to search for leads. Not afraid to bend rules, she is the polar opposite of Nasreen who does her police work by the book, in this race-against-the-clock plot.

I liked Freddie, an appealingly unconventional, social media geek, who keeps the story twisting with leads others haven’t thought of, as opposed to some of the police officers who are always one step behind the criminals; mostly, I found them to be fairly stereotypical of this sort of crime fiction. They make snide remarks about civilian Freddie being in their midst, but she holds her own with sharp one liners that leave them verbally beaten, and I gave her a few mental thumbs up.

There are a lot of characters to keep track of in this book, especially if you are new to the series. The pace is kept brisk with brief use of descriptive detail, enough to allow the reader to create their own pictures. I was left wanting to know more about Freddie and Nasreen, because I haven’t yet read the first two books in the series, where they have built-up their working relationship, so I'd say it's probably a good idea to start at the beginning of the series. There are several other threads running through this book, with hints at romance for more than one character.

Fans of Angela Clarke’s writing and readers who enjoy fast paced crime with underlying romantic themes will certainly enjoy this book, but I didn't think it brought anything new to the table that I hadn't read before.

What would you do if you were surfing live videos on the internet and saw someone being sexually assaulted? Would you ring the police? Would you convince yourself it must be fake? Would you expect anyone to believe you?

Well Kate witnessed such a thing and she is struggling to get anyone to believe it, especially as there are no other reports, and the live stream and account were disabled very quickly afterwards. However there is just enough in the story for Freddie and Nas to take a look into it.

What follows is an investigation that becomes more interesting with every page that is turned, culminating with an epic finale. There was no way that I could have predicted the eventual outcome, although I did have a couple of theories as the book progressed.

The pacing of Trust Me seemed right, it was fairly quick and Freddie and Nas seemed to have plenty of things to do continually. In addition to chapters from Freddie and Nas, we also get odd looks at people who may be involved in the crimes, and how they are feeling which was really interesting, but still written in a way that didn't give the game away completely to readers.

Trust Me is the third book of the Social Media Murders series and can easily be read as a standalone novel. Although as a fan of the series, I was glad to see more development especially of Freddie and also it was good to see police officers that featured in both of the previous books.

After reading Trust Me, and in fact all of the Social Media Murders books so far I have been left looking at social media in a new way, and can see just how fast it can be used for evil as well as good. In some respects I am a bit more wary as a result, especially in Trust Me's case of clicking on live videos.

Trust Me is yet another fabulous book in this series that kept me gripped really early on, and kept me thinking about it even in between reading stints of it.

Thank you so much to Avon and Netgalley for this copy which I have reviewed honestly and voluntarily.

While undertaking some online research for her work, Kate stumbles upon a live video which is seemingly showing a young woman being murdered. After calling the police, she discovers that the video has disappeared and that people are reluctant to take her seriously. How can she prove that this was not a figment of her imagination and that, somewhere, is a girl in need of help? Meanwhile, Sergeant Nasreen Cudmore and her friend Freddie Venton are working on a missing persons case - could the two incidents be connected?

Trust Me is the third of Angela Clarke's Social Media Murders series, following on from Follow Me and Watch Me and, again, deals with the dark side of the internet. This time the spotlight is on Periscope and how people, anywhere, can watch video clips that are put online. It is, in many ways, a modern retelling of the Agatha Christie classic, The 4.50 from Paddington, where instead of Elspeth McGillicuddy witnessing the strangling of a woman when passing on a train and nobody believing her, we have Kate witnessing the rape and murder of a young woman online and the video being removed before her story can be corroborated.

In Trust Me, we see a different side to Freddie's character in that she is struggling to come to terms with feelings she has never felt before. This angst does not stop her impulsiveness, however, and she is soon infuriating her friend, Nas, who is more adept at playing by the rules. There are times, though, when we see Nas acting without thinking, showing that the friends' personalities are beginning to rub off on each other.

One of the things I liked most about this book was that, although it is a police procedural, it is not a traditional whodunit. The naming of the culprit is secondary to the actual investigation and the police search for the girl in the video. It is still a fast-paced story, though, especially in the last fifth of the book when one of the characters is placed in mortal danger.

I've enjoyed reading all of the books in this series so far and I hope that Angela Clarke has some more in the pipeline!

Thank you netgalley and the publishers for the chance to read this. A cyber crime book which was so fast paced you had to keep turning the pages to keep up. Definitely recommend it.

Another cracking, unpredictable story from this author. Love the characters and the way the plot moves at such a pace. Highly recommended.

Another well written, fast paced instalment in this series. The police characters bring light and humour to a very dark, disturbing storyline that again focuses on the dangers of social media.
With twists and drama aplenty I'm looking forward to book 4 already.

It’s a terrible reality in the digital age people do terrible things and post them online to gloat. Kate sees an attack streaming live and calls police for help, but the video is taken down almost immediately. Police can’t do anything without evidence, but that doesn’t stop Kate. She wants to find the attacker and the girl who was attacked. Nas and Freddie are working a missing persons case and wonder if Kate’s “video victim” could be linked to the case. They are the only ones willing to believe Kate, can they find the woman before it’s too late?

Thank you to the publishers Avon Books UK and net galley for the arc in return for an honest review.

I should start by saying that this is the first book I have read in this series, and my enjoyment may have been affected as a result.

A very fast paced crime novel; this time the crime is a cyber crime and is very topical, as we live more and more of our lives on the internet, and the book attempts to explore the risks that we all face.

However, I found that the behaviours and reactions of the characters were all fairly standard of the usual tropes of police procedure crime fiction. Freddie is the typical "misunderstood cowboy cop" and Nas the "by the book cop" and between them they manage to track down suspects and connect links that have left other police depts. stymied for months.

That being said, it is a fast paced adventure, and a good way to spend a lazy sunny Sunday afternoon in the garden.