The Lollipop Man: The new gritty crime novel from bestselling author Daniel Sellers
By (Author) Daniel Sellers
Allison & Busby
Allison & Busby
6th May 2025
20th February 2025
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
823.92
Hardback
416
Width 134mm, Height 216mm
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.
Daniel Sellers is the author of the Kindle-bestselling Lola Harris Mysteries and is an obsessive fan of Agatha Christie. His crime thrillers are pacy and dark, with as much interest in whydunnit as who. He grew up in Yorkshire, and has lived and worked in Liverpool, Glasgow, Ireland and Finland. Sellers now lives in Argyll in Scotland.