Children are vanishing.

The village of Lafferton is shattered.

There are no witnesses and no leads - just a kidnapper at large.

Then Detective Chief Inspector Simon Serrailler receives a call: a child has been snatched in Yorkshire. Has the abductor struck again? And will they find this child alive?

'Not all great novelists can write crime fiction but when one like Susan Hill does the result is stunning' Ruth Rendell