Lost souls - Neil White

Children are abducted and then returned to their families days later unharmed but with no memory of where they have been - or who took them.
DC Laura McGanity, having relocated from London to the old mill town of Blackley, quickly learns that life up North is far from peaceful.
Her reporter boyfriend Jack Garrett is back in his hometown and his investigations reveal murky connections and sordid secrets,
but when he meets a man who 'paints' the future - prophecies of horrific events which he then puts on to canvas - it's becoming terrifyingly clear that many people, including his own family, are in grave danger...