Manchester private eye, Dave Cunane, is approached by famous international footballer Jamie Piercy. He wants Cunane to trace the men who kidnapped his baby niece, demanded £500,000 for her return and left her in the boot of an abandoned car. Jamie's brother Lee is a professional gambler and match fixer and neither of them want the police involved. A whiff of scandal and Jamie's career would be finished.
As Cunane digs deeper he finds a tale of extortion and murder and realises that some of Manchester's most successful criminals are being blackmailed. The trail leads him into the shady world of organised crime, of drug smuggling and corruption on and off the soccer pitch. The soft-hearted Cunane offers shelter to disgraced nanny, Naomi and not long after is landed with gentle giant Clint, a young lad with learning difficulties whose brother has had to skip the country and lie low for a while. While Cunane's work becomes ever more fraught with danger, at home he has to try and keep his girlfriend Janine happy and enlist her help in caring for their new waifs and strays.
Above Suspicion forces Cunane to make tricky choices about justice, morality and vengeance in a city where everyone seems to be tainted and the body count keeps rising. Laced with humour and many Manchester references to savour.

Manchester Evening News 9.11.01