“Most police work is a waste of time. But now and again you get lucky. You find a little piece of the puzzle and it fits into place.”
Britain has been ravaged by disastrous flooding, with survivors from the major cities forced to higher ground, north of the border.
When the body of a young refugee is discovered at an abandoned transit camp, Detective Corsa Moran is baffled.
In a harsh surveillance society, where everyone is registered and monitored, why can the victim not be identified? And why does such a well-dressed body bear the scars of poverty and violence?
Facing indifference and hostility at work, and deepening crises in her personal life, Corsa seeks answers in The Tail, a depraved and lawless New Dumfries ghetto, where she enters the radar of a dangerous and powerful new enemy.
As Corsa shines her searchlight on the dark forces behind this brutal new world, she is warned that to go further could put her career in jeopardy and her life in danger.
But Corsa Moran does not know how to stop.
AMONG THE RUINS is the second book in the Corsa Moran thriller series. If you like dark, dystopian crime fiction with strong female leads, then you’ll love this pacy and complex continuation of James Magnus’s chillingly plausible vision of the near future.