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Scratch Deeper

In sun-soaked Mauritius, a retired law lord is brutally murdered. In rain-sodden Manchester, the Labour Party conference is beginning.

Iona Kahn’s excitement at joining Greater Manchester Police’s Counter Terrorism Unit is dampened with her first case: a trivial use of false identity tipped-off by the Suburban Explorers. This band of ‘alternatives’, who illegally enter the network of tunnels beneath the city, believe that their newest member – a Sri Lankan student named Muttiah – is not who he claims to be, and he’s been asking suspicious questions about the tunnels.

Delving deeper, Iona realises this case is anything but trivial, particularly when she discovers the identity of the party conference’s international  guest speaker. To prevent a terrible catastrophe, she must overcome her fears to enter the dark and forgotten world beneath the city…