Poisoned ground
By: Barbara Nadel
Series: A Hakim and Arnold mystery
Publisher: Quercus
Published: 2015
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 422
ISBN-13: 9781848664227; 9781848664210
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Private investigators; Undercover operations; Fiction
Description: Ex-soldier Lee Arnold and his Muslim assistant Mumtaz Hakim run a detective agency in London's ethnically diverse, crime-ridden East End. Mumtaz is approached by an Egyptian woman, Salwa, whose husband is in Belmarsh on terrorism charges. Salwa convinces Mumtaz of her husband's innocence and persuades her to go undercover to prove it. But Salwa is not what she seems. Trapped in an old tunnel that leads to the London docks, will Mumtaz escape with her life?