Detective Inspector John Smithdown is a good man with some bad things to deal with.


It's 1988 and ecstasy is flooding the streets of Manchester.


The Second Summer of Love is here.


Tell that to the locals on DI Smithdown's patch.


Over one weekend, Smithdown is faced with a missing single mum, machete wielding gangs in Oldham, simmering racial tensions across communities and a mutilated body found at the edge of a remote lake with a mythical reputation.


People say bad things happen at the Mermaid's Pool.


They're dead right.


David Nolan - author of Black Moss - brings you a second helping of Manc Noir.


Things just got even darker.