Snatched from Home — Graham Smith

A middle-class couple turn to crime to pay the ransom for their children -- can they evade the cops and save their children's lives?

Middle-class parents Victoria and Nicholas Foulkes are distraught when their children are kidnapped against Nicholas's gambling debts. Penniless and desperate, the couple turn to crime as a way to raise the ransom. Hot on their heels is recently bereaved DI Harry Evans and his Major Crimes team. Evans is fighting against enforced retirement, and his replacement, DI John Campbell, is foisted upon him along with other cases. If he must leave the police then he wants one last big case before he goes. In a race against time Victoria and Nicholas must evade the police while continuing to add to the ransom fund. Can they save their children before time runs out?