Looking for Madeleine. Anthony Summers & Robyn Swan. 2014.

The 2007 disappearance of three-year-old Madeleine McCann from her bed in Portugal proved an instant, worldwide sensation. There’s been nothing like it since America’s Lindbergh kidnapping eighty years ago.

Award-winning authors Anthony Summers and Robyn Swan have produced the first independent, objective account of the case. They have examined the released Portuguese files, conducted in-depth interviews and original research to answer the questions.: What can we really know about this most emotive of cases? What can we learn from it?

The Portuguese police probe ran into a dead end. Parents Gerry and Kate McCann however, have never given up the search for Madeleine. They blitzed the media, hired private detectives, kept the case in the public eye. Speculation that the McCanns played a role in their daughter’s fate, the authors demonstrate, is unfounded.

Scotland Yard’s ‘investigative review’, ordered by the Prime Minister and begun in 2011, identified some 200 potential leads. The Yard’s suspects have included a mystery paedophile who preyed on other British children. The Detective Chief Inspector heading the probe has said the little girl may still be alive.