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You have 6 seconds to view this suicide note, and 24 hours to save the girl's life.
Sixteen-year-old Essex schoolgirl Chloe Miller sends a suicide note via a Snapchat photo that friends and family can view for six seconds before it disappears. A search party is raised, but her body is discovered twenty-four hours later. Newly promoted to the Gremlin Internet Taskforce, Nasreen Cudmore realises Chloe's suicide note is an acrostic that spells APOLLYON. With Apollyon, also known as the Hashtag Murderer, safely behind bars can there really be a link between this supposed suicide and the serial killer?

Sixteen-year-old Essex schoolgirl Chloe Miller sends a suicide note via a Snapchat photo that friends and family can view for six seconds before it disappears. A search party is raised, but her body is discovered twenty-four hours later. Newly promoted to the Gremlin Internet Taskforce, Nasreen Cudmore realises Chloe's suicide note is an acrostic that spells APOLLYON. With Apollyon, also known as the Hashtag Murderer, safely behind bars can there really be a link between this supposed suicide and the serial killer? When Nasreen's new boss, the attractive DCI Burgone, receives a Snapchat suicide note from Lottie, his university undergraduate sister, they re-investigate the case with new urgency. With time ticking, Burgone falling apart under the pressure, and no apparent leads, Nasreen goes to the one person she thinks could help: Freddie Venton.

Freddie, mired in depression and still suffering from shock, struggles to get dressed let alone help her old school friend, but with a young woman's life at stake she forces herself back into the fray. Working together Freddie and Nasreen uncover a perverse online subgroup, whose users compete to solicit naked photos of girls selected at random. As they chip away at the group, they uncover angry teens, thwarted ex-husbands, and illegal hackers, with every thread leading back to Revenge Porn supersite, and it's shadowy owner Alex Black. Just how far would the secretive Svengali of Are You Awake? go to cause hurt and destruction? And will Freddie and Nasreen find him in time to save Lottie?

Angela Clarke is an author, columnist and playwright. She read English and European Literature at Essex University, and Advances in Scriptwriting at RADA. Her hilarious memoir Confessions of a Fashionista (Ebury) is an Amazon Fashion Chart number one bestseller. Based on the decade she spent working in the fashion industry, Confessions of a Fashionista is a fast-moving, funny and bitingly observed first person tale that's a hit with both the press and readers: the average score of her ninety Amazon Customer Reviews is five stars. Now Magazine described Angela as a 'glitzy outsider' and declared Confessions of a Fashionista: 'a must-read.' Georgina Moore, Communications Director of Headline Publishing Group tweets: 'Just read Confessions of a Fashionista by Angela Clarke. Heavenly, just as good as Devil. Funny with adorably silly yet smart heroine.'