Danger by Robin Nye

Good morning, readers! Today I'm a stop on the Random Things Tours for Robin Nye's Danger. 

Girls are being kidnapped around the globe, snatched from their hometowns during broad daylight and forced into a criminal world controlled by powerful and greedy criminals. 

DI Sarah Hunter and DS Ted Selitto are two of the officers on scene at the exclusive Meadowlands Hotel. A guest has gone missing, his car and his belongings still on site. It doesn't take long to discover someone has cleaned a massive amount of blood out of the room, leaving the police certain they're dealing with a homicide. But this one mystery is just the start. As the investigation progresses, it soon becomes clear that they've found themselves at the center of a massive trafficking conspiracy! 

Robin Nye's debut is not a book for the fainthearted! As you might expect of a book concerning sex trafficking, Danger is quite a dark and intense read. There are multiple narrators including the officers on the case, some of the kidnapped girls, and, of course, the criminals themselves. 

I can't say this is a fun read—it always feels odd to describe a dark thriller as such! Riveting is a better word to describe this one. Nye doesn't shy away from the truly horrific elements of the trafficking industry or an investigation into said world. 

Hunter and Selitto carry much of the story, but Nye does delve into other characters on the investigative team, which is an element I always appreciate in these kinds of books. It's clear, too, that he's done his research into his topic and into police process. And it does appear that Nye intends to continue with Hunter and Selitto in further stories! 

Danger is quite a doorstopper, clocking in at over 600 pages. At times I definitely felt that there was some extraneous detail that could have been cut to slim down the book and accelerate the pacing, but overall I found that the story moved well. It certainly kept me hooked throughout and I look forward to seeing what comes next for Hunter, Selitto, and their team!