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    Hold Back the Night
    It Was You
    Shut Eye
    Audiobook series3 titles

    Billy Rucker Series

    Written by Adam Baron

    Narrated by Gordon Griffin

    3.5/5

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    About this series

    There is someone on the streets of London who will stop at nothing to make a point... As she walks home from work one night, Josephine Thomas is brutally attacked and left to bleed to death. Billy Rucker had known her, briefly, and he soon hears about the tragedy.

    At the request of Jo's distraught colleague, he agrees to look into the murder. As he begins his tentative enquiries, things move horrifically close to home. A friend of Billy's is found killed, and in the throes if what seems to be a crazy nightmare, Billy must bury his grief and tackle his most dangerous investigation yet...
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherW. F. Howes Ltd
    Release dateJan 14, 2010
    Hold Back the Night
    It Was You
    Shut Eye

    Titles in the series (3)

    • 1

      Shut Eye
      Shut Eye

      Shut Eye

      Adam Baron
      4/5
      4/5

      A married airline pilot is found dead in his London flat, surrounded by shards of glass and the shattered remains of a champagne bottle. But who was the man seen with the pilot on the concourse of Heathrow airport Private investigator Billy Rucker joins the case at the request of the pilot's brother, a well-known Tory MP. For Rucker it's the start of a long lonely trail through the city, clutching a grainy black and white photo and a gnawing suspicion in the pit of his stomach...

      A married airline pilot is found dead in his London flat, surrounded by shards of glass and the shattered remains of a champagne bottle. But who was the man seen with the pilot on the concourse of Heathrow airport Private investigator Billy Rucker joins the case at the request of the pilot's brother, a well-known Tory MP. For Rucker it's the start of a long lonely trail through the city, clutching a grainy black and white photo and a gnawing suspicion in the pit of his stomach...

    • 2

      Hold Back the Night
      Hold Back the Night

      Hold Back the Night

      Adam Baron
      3/5 - 1 rating
      3/5 - 1 rating

      Ex-policeman turned private investigator Billy Rucker has been asked to trace Lucy Bradley, a teenage runaway on the streets of London. But when he finds her, she has been strangled and stabbed and abandoned in a disused house. Despite this being a case for the Metropolitan Police, Billy is persuaded by Lucy's father to track down her killer. And he soon finds himself embroiled in an investigation which leaves him only one way out...

      Ex-policeman turned private investigator Billy Rucker has been asked to trace Lucy Bradley, a teenage runaway on the streets of London. But when he finds her, she has been strangled and stabbed and abandoned in a disused house. Despite this being a case for the Metropolitan Police, Billy is persuaded by Lucy's father to track down her killer. And he soon finds himself embroiled in an investigation which leaves him only one way out...

    • 4

      It Was You
      It Was You

      It Was You

      Adam Baron
      2/5 - 1 rating
      2/5 - 1 rating

      There is someone on the streets of London who will stop at nothing to make a point... As she walks home from work one night, Josephine Thomas is brutally attacked and left to bleed to death. Billy Rucker had known her, briefly, and he soon hears about the tragedy. At the request of Jo's distraught colleague, he agrees to look into the murder. As he begins his tentative enquiries, things move horrifically close to home. A friend of Billy's is found killed, and in the throes if what seems to be a crazy nightmare, Billy must bury his grief and tackle his most dangerous investigation yet...

      There is someone on the streets of London who will stop at nothing to make a point... As she walks home from work one night, Josephine Thomas is brutally attacked and left to bleed to death. Billy Rucker had known her, briefly, and he soon hears about the tragedy. At the request of Jo's distraught colleague, he agrees to look into the murder. As he begins his tentative enquiries, things move horrifically close to home. A friend of Billy's is found killed, and in the throes if what seems to be a crazy nightmare, Billy must bury his grief and tackle his most dangerous investigation yet...

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