The DCI Jones Casebook: Ellis Flynn — Kerry J. Donovan

This is the second in the DCI Jones Casebook series and can be read as a standalone novel: When fourteen-year-old Hollie Jardine is abducted on her way home from school, Detective Chief Inspector David Jones is called in to find her. He soon discovers a convicted sex-offender, Ellis Flynn, has been grooming Hollie for weeks. With Hollie's chances of survival fading, Jones risks his life and career when he ignores protocol to follow Flynn's trail across the Channel into France. What he discovers in an idyllic backwater will stretch his detection skills to the limit, and his emotional stability to breaking point …