Ruby pbk 31
July 1997 About the Author Bibliography Gerry Byrne
Ruby pbk 31
July 1997
About the Author
Bibliography
Ruby
An entertaining debut in the Val McDermid tradition. It’s
goodbye welfare state, hallo enterprise culture, as the Hayden Aachen Consultancy opens
for business, the skills developed in social work management being readily transferable to
the private sector. In plain English, she’s sick of the mess and blood of other
people’s lives. But when a strapping transvestite called Evian (rhymes with 
‘deviant’)
has picked the locks and is swinging her great hairy legs on Hayden’s new desk before
she’s even opened for business, it’s odds on the mess and blood will shortly
follow. Evian’s friend Rusty, a.k.a. Ruby Tuesday, exotic dancer at the Paradise Club
has gone missing, leaving behind all her clothes and a pricy ruby given to her by a john
called John... Set mostly in Soho, Ruby is an entertaining debut, featuring a louche and
varied cast of characters, and an engagingly human heroine.
'Gripping, gruelling and gritty. Gerry Byrne
takes a walk on the wild side' Val McDermid
'What's hot: Gerry Byrne's Ruby, a pacy
thriller…' The Pink Paper
'Louche and unsentimental, Byrne's debut shows
there's still blood to be drawn from the female PI genre' time Out
About The Author
Gerry Byrne lives in London, where she works in a women’s hostel in Soho. Ruby is her
first novel.
