When a young girl is snatched from a West Yorkshire town there are eerie similarities with a cold case from many years earlier. It can't be the same killer, can it?

Yorkshire, 1994. Eighteen-year-old Adrian spends his days working at the local newspaper, and his evenings in his local pub. But under this ordinary surface lies a haunting story. Aged ten, Adrian was kidnapped by a shadow y figure know n as The Lollipop Man, who had abducted three children before. Adrian was the only one to escape.

The Lollipop Man might w ell have returned when another missing child w hips up a media frenzy. Journalist Sheila Hargreaves, troubled with memories of her ow n involvement in the reporting of the previous abductions, is determined to dig deeper, atone for what she did nearly a decade ago and bring the Lollipop Man to justice.