IT'S now two days since Leanne Wellings and her children disappeared in this deftly-woven thriller.

And if you think writer Gwyneth Hughes is stretching our credibility to the limit by having three members of one family abducted in separate incidents on the same day - you'd be dead right.

Yesterday we saw the police press officer working out at the gym, pounding the treadmill right next to the very man who persuaded Leanne's five-year-old Rosie to hop into his white van.

This is the very same gym, incidentally, where the little girl's dad works as a personal trainer. And astonishingly, the coincidences don't end there.

But that doesn't detract from the suspense as the investigation continues and the police and the victims' families both feel increasingly helpless and frustrated by the lack of leads while the press run massive great rings around them.

Leanne's husband, Matt (David Oyelowo) refuses to take part in the media circus by making a public appeal, knowing everyone will assume he must be guilty.

But when Leanne's mum (Penelope Wilton) agrees to face the cameras, I'd defy any journalist to get her statement down in shorthand.

The mystery continues tomorrow night.