FROM THE CRIME WRITER LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2018

The eight-year-old boy had vanished from the car and - as if by slick, sick magic - had been replaced by a note on the steering wheel:

You don't love him

At the height of summer a dark shadow falls across Exmoor. Children are being stolen.

There are no explanations, no ransom demands...and no hope.

Policeman Jonas Holly faces a precarious journey into the warped mind of the kidnapper if he is to find them. But there are some who would say that Jonas is the last man to entrust with this job...

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