Publisher's Synopsis
'Urban Noir has arrived in London, and Adam Baron is one of its finest proponents.' The Independent
Adam Baron's second novel, following Shut Eye, which introduced private eye Billy Rucker.A dark, gritty private eye thriller. In his search for a runaway PI Billy Rucker is drawn into the dangerous world of young men and women living on London's streets - except Billy's runaway is no longer living . . . Billy Rucker has been asked to trace Lucy Bradley, a young runaway living on the streets in London. Frustratingly Billy is sure he saw Lucy on the previous day and when he goes back to the same place he begins a trail that leads him to the sixteen-year-old. Unfortunately, when he finds her she is dead - strangled and stabbed and abandoned in a disused house. For Billy, the case should be at an end - but he can't quite let her go, and on the entreaties of her father he agrees to track down her killer.
