Adam Baron
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Billy Rucker mysteries volume 2
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'I found her… I found her twice.'
It's the hottest summer since 1976 and a teenager, Lucy, has gone missing. Billy Rucker is asked to investigate.
Luck seems to be on Billy's side. While working on another case in Camden Town, Billy is sure he catches a glimpse of her. All he need do is hang around the area and sooner or later she will turn up. Simple.
But when Lucy does appear Billy's luck most definitely runs dry. At the centre of a murder...
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Billy Rucker mysteries volume 4
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'DON'T OPEN IT. DON'T OPEN THE DOOR-'
As she walks home from work, Josephine Thomas is brutally attacked and left to die. 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.
After tentative enquiries, things move horrifically close to home. A friend of Billy's is killed. Burying his grief, Billy tackles his most dangerous investigation yet.
But...
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Cymbeline Igloo is bored. Bored of home learning, bored of lockdown, bored of not being able to do anything. And to make things even worse, his mum accidentally gave away his favourite football shirt. But then Mrs Stebbings, the beloved school cook, is taken into hospital, and suddenly coronavirus seems much closer to home. When Cym starts a project all about Mrs Stebbings' childhood in World War II, he can't know that it's the beginning of something...
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"Here's something you won't believe: someone is doing terrible things to Mrs Martin, Cymbeline Igloo's favorite teacher of all time. Cymbeline has to find the culprit (after he's learned what 'culprit' means). He's also got to help his friend Veronique, whose grandma is dangerously ill. It seems Nanai has a secret, connected to her arrival in the UK as a boat person from Vietnam, a traumatic journey in which she lost her twin sister. Can Cymbeline...
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A funny and touching story about nine-year-old Cymbeline Igloo who turns detective to discover the family secret that has led to his mother's breakdown. Cymbeline Igloo has never been swimming not ever, not once so challenging the class bully to a race during their first school swimming lesson was never going to go down well. When Cymbeline nearly drowns, his mother has a nervous breakdown and ends up in hospital. Why? Why has she never taken him...
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From the author of bestselling and Carnegie-nominated debut BOY UNDERWATER comes a moving and hilarious novel for 10+ readers about friendships, family secrets, mystery — and life-changing hidden treasure... Jessica is playing with her family at the river when she finds a dirty, bedraggled teddy bear in the water. She has no idea that it will change everything, forever. Meanwhile, Cymbeline comes home from school to find that his mum's house has...
7) Shut Eye
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"Classy and able thriller, with crunchy London backgrounds . . . An agile and ingenious plot . . . (The) forecast for the series is excellent." -Literary Review
A married airline pilot lies dead in his London flat-a shattered champagne bottle left protruding from his abdomen.
Film footage shows Teddy leaving Heathrow with an unidentified man. What secrets is he hiding?
Ex-cop turned private investigator Billy Rucker joins the case on the...
8) SuperJack
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'I couldn't see anything. But I knew. That's when I should have gone home…'
Only hours after meeting footballer Jack Draper – 'SuperJack' to his adoring fans – Billy Rucker is standing over the naked and brutalized body of a girl called Alison. A girl who, it appears, was Jack Draper's mistress.
Jack had wanted Billy to catch his stalker. But now all the evidence points to SuperJack being a cold-blooded killer.
With the footballer on the...
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Billy Rucker mysteries volume 3
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"I couldn't see anything. But I knew. That's when I should have gone home…" Only hours after meeting footballer Jack Draper – "SuperJack" to his adoring fans – Billy Rucker is standing over the naked and brutalized body of a girl called Alison. A girl who, it appears, was Jack Draper's mistress. Jack had wanted Billy to catch his stalker. But now all the evidence points to Super Jack being a cold-blooded killer. With the footballer on the run,...
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Billy Rucker mysteries volume 1
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After a brutal murder…Fear is the name of the game. A married airline pilot lies dead in his London flat -his torso scarred by a shattered champagne bottle left protruding from his abdomen. But who was the man filmed with Teddy as he left Heathrow? What secrets is he hiding? Ex-copper turned private investigator Billy Rucker joins the case on the exhortation of Teddy's brother, a well-known MP. For Rucker it's the start of a lonely trail through...
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Two remarkable tales featuring Cymbeline Igoo from the bestselling author Adam Baron.
“Boy Underwater”
Cymbeline Igloo (yes, really!) has NEVER been swimming. Not ever. Not once. But how hard can it be? He's Googled front crawl and he's found his dad's old pair of trunks. He's totally ready. What he's not ready for is the accident at the pool—or how it leads his mum to a sudden breakdown.
“You Won’t Believe This”
Here's something you...
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For less than the cost of going to a movie, you can change your life forever! Contained in these pages is a powerful process called Dream Setting created by international recording artist, life coach, and music educator von Baron. This is the last self-help book you'll ever need because in just six steps he'll take you from wherever you are right now in your life and help you live the life of your dreams. Fasten your seat belt and get ready for the...