The Ruby Baker Mysteries

In 1963 Ruby and best friend Mary escape domestic abuse and run away to Brighton. They soon become part of a glitzy group of teenagers hell-bent on enjoying the new freedoms of the Sixties. Trainee hairdresser, Ruby, discovers she has other talents and sets up a detective agency in the back room of ‘Johnny’s Salon.’

Ruby Baker’s Detective Agency attracts the attention, not only of a slew of clients but the local police force.

Eccentric characters and a cracking good mysteries follow as Ruby delves into the criminal underbelly of Brighton.

RUBY BAKER MYSTERIES

Book 1 - Before I Left

A glitzy gang of party girls hell-bent on enjoying themselves.

A stalker hell-bent on revealing secrets of the past?

Nineteen-year-old runaway Ruby Baker and pregnant best friend Mary escape a life of violence in London to find a new home in Brighton. They fall into a glamorous set that takes full advantage of the new freedom of the 1960s. But their new life soon comes under threat. Someone is watching Ruby. Ruby keeps spotting a tall stranger in the shadows. And Ruby fears her dark secret will be exposed. Then a murder in the party-loving set brings more danger, and the first murder is followed by a second, as rumours of occult sacrifices spread across town.

Can Ruby keep her secrets from being exposed and her new life from being destroyed?

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Book 2 - Before I Found You

A child found alone on the beach, screaming into the waves.

A mother who served ten years for a crime she says she didn’t commit.

Ruby Baker rescues a child from the beach in a storm, baffling local police. Nobody has reported a child missing, and the girl is so traumatised that she is unable to speak.

Then Ruby is hired by the notorious Beverly Collins, who has just been released from Holloway Prison after serving ten years for child cruelty. The body of her missing daughter was never found, but Beverly insists she is innocent, and she wants Ruby Baker’s Investigation Bureau to prove it.

Was Beverly Collins really framed, and if so, where is her daughter now? And who is the mystery girl on the beach?

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Book 3 - Before I Trust You

A young woman runs in front of the horses on a sunny day at Brighton racecourse.

Is it suicide or something more sinister?

Ruby heads off for a day out at the races with her friends, only to witness an apparent suicide. A girl jumps in front of the leading horses in a race, killing herself and bringing down the favourite. It seems an open and shut case, but as a sordid love triangle emerges, is this death all it seems?

Ruby plunges in to the glamorous world of horse racing to discover the truth, only to turn her life and the lives of those around her upside down.

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RUBY BAKER MYSTERIES

Ruby Baker Mystery Series Box Set

Do you love gripping mysteries?

Meet Ruby Baker, a young woman with a talent for uncovering the truth.

Follow Ruby on three enthralling seaside mysteries set in 1960's Brighton with this box set.

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