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Scratch Deeper

Scratch Deeper

by Chris Simms

Series:DC-Iona-KhanTerrorismPolicePreventionFiction
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About this book

**How do you stop an assassin you cannot see?** In this fast-moving thriller, Iona Khan – a young female detective with Manchester police – receives a tip-off about a coming terror attack. With a major political conference about to take place, she must move quickly if multiple fatalities are to be prevented. Normally, the city’s state-of-the-art CCTV network would be used to covertly monitor the bomb plotters’ movements. But in this case, the tactic proves futile: the gang have found a way to strike from beneath the ground…

Themes & subjects

Series:DC-Iona-KhanTerrorismPolicePreventionFictionTerrorism, fiction

Characters & people

Setting

Manchester (England)

About the author

Chris Simms
Chris Simms

16 Octuber 1969

Chris Simms has worked in airports, nightclubs, post offices and telesales centres. Along with nominations for Crime Writers’ Association Daggers and the Theakston’s Crime Novel of the Year award, Chris was selected by Waterstones as one of their ’25 authors for the future’. The idea for his debut novel, <a href="https://openlibrary.org/works/OL7916209W" target="_blank">***Outside the White Lines***</a>, came to him in the early hours of the morning while broken down on the hard shoulder of the M40. His series of DI Spicer novels – psychological thrillers set very firmly in Manchester – follow the police detective’s fortunes as he pursues mad, bad and deadly individuals through the city’…

Author

Chris Simms

Pages

448

Read time

≈ 11h

Editions

4

Language

English

Publisher

Severn House

ISBN

9780727896995

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