They stole away her future...
A French woman stumbles out of a forest in Dorset more than a decade after vanishing from the English beach where she had been innocently building sandcastles under the not-so-watchful gaze of her holidaymaking parents.

They never expected her to survive...

As investigative journalist Emma Hunter sifts through the secrets of a seemingly unrelated disappearance with police archivist Jack, it soon becomes clear the two cases are linked.

They never expected her to escape...

Emma enlists her best friend and broadsheet reporter Rachel to trace the French woman's steps through the forest to a nightmarish underground cell littered with human bones. That's when Emma realises this woman could be the answer, the answer to everything.

Murder, She Wrote meets Taken... The third gripping instalment in The Missing Children Case Files is a fierce forensic examination of families, the ties that bind us, and how they're severed — perfect for fans of Ann Cleeves and J M Dalgliesh.