

The Spider's Web
Ben Cheetham
Mystery & Thrillers / Short Stories / Horror
February 14th 1993. Sheffield United supporters remember it as the day their team won a famous victory against Manchester United. The date is lodged in Anna Young's brain for a different reason. That was the day her thirteen-year-old sister, Jessica, was abducted...Fast forward twenty years. The case has long since gone cold. But Anna won't let it die. She made a promise to look after her little sister. And it's a promise she intends to keep no matter how long it takes...A detective with one thing on his mind. Jim Monahan is equally determined to bring down a sadistic sex-ring. But everywhere he turns he finds himself entangled in a web of political power and silence. Then comes a bizarre twenty-year-old clue that might just blow the whole thing apart...
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The Society of Dirty Hearts
Ben Cheetham
Mystery & Thrillers / Short Stories / Horror
There's a darkness lying just under the surface of Julian Harris's young mind. He has bad dreams. Very bad dreams in which he sees himself rape and murder teenage girls. Sometimes they seem more like visions than dreams. More and more he fears his dreams will spill over into the waking world and he'll become the monster he is in them. There's a darkness lying just under the surface of Julian Harris's picture-perfect hometown too. A schoolgirl is missing. Julian is convinced there's something sinister behind her disappearance, but the police think otherwise. The girl comes from a bad background. She hung out with petty criminals and junkies. Some people think the town is better off without her.Julian isn't one of those people. Neither is Mia Bradshaw, a disturbed, self-harming orphan and the best-friend of the missing girl. Drawn to each other by a desire to find out the truth, Julian and Mia form a bond that goes beyond friendship or sexual attraction into something neither of them understands. When Mia goes missing, Julian's desire turns into obsession - an obsession that leads him to a depraved underworld of drugs, prostitution, blackmail and murder headed by a man who seems to have stepped straight out of his nightmares.Part psychological horror, part crime thriller, The Society Of Dirty Hearts is a novel that will draw you, along with its flawed hero, deeper and deeper into the corrupt depths of a small-town full of dark secrets and darker desires.REVIEWS'Cheetham ensnared me in the web of his inescapable story. I felt like a junkie needing a fix - I had to know what was happening next and couldn't get enough of this book. If I could have mainlined this book, I would have.' Bound & Determined to Find a Good Read.'Great story from Mr Cheetham, well told, fast paced and engaging.' I Meant to Read That.'Great book! Can't wait to read more from this writer. Lots of twists and turns I never saw coming. Highly recommend.' Smashwords review.'...writing reminded me of early Stephen King, especially in its sense of small-town life and paranoia, and the air of supernatural that pervades the first half of the novel' - Robert Dinsdale, author of The Harrowing and Three Miles. ABOUT THE AUTHORBen Cheetham is an award-winning, Pushcart Prize nominated author from Sheffield, UK, whose fiction has been widely published in magazines and anthologies.
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Blood Guilt
Ben Cheetham
Mystery & Thrillers / Short Stories / Horror
Is it ever truly possible to atone for killing someone?After the death of his son in a freak accident, DI Harlan Miller's life is spiralling out of control. He's drinking too much. His marriage and career are on the rocks. But things are about to get even worse for him. A booze-soaked night out and a single wild punch leave a man dead and Harlan facing a manslaughter charge.Fast-forward four years. Harlan's prison term is up, but life on the outside holds little promise. Divorced, alone, consumed with guilt, he thinks of nothing beyond atoning for the death he caused. But how do you make up for depriving a wife of her husband and two young boys of their father? Then something happens, something terrible, yet something that holds out a twisted kind of hope for Harlan - the dead man's youngest son is abducted.From that moment Harlan's life has only one purpose - finding the boy. So begins a frantic race against time that leads him to a place darker than anything he experienced as a policeman and a stark moral choice that compels him to question the law he once enforced. Set in the northern English city of Sheffield, Blood Guilt is a gritty crime thriller that'll leave you asking yourself how far you'd go to protect a child from the very real monsters that stalk our world. If you're a fan of fast-paced, hard-hitting fiction that isn't afraid of dark subjects and dangerous questions, this full-length novel is for you. REVIEWS:'Excellent plot and a page-turner.' Amazon Vine Voice Review.'A well-written, taut thriller with more twists and turns than a theme park ride.' ElementaryvWatson.'...a great page-turner with a unique premise and I zoomed through it in a couple of days as I really wanted to know what happened!' Just a normal girl in London.ABOUT THE AUTHOR:Ben Cheetham is an award-winning, Pushcart Prize nominated author from Sheffield, UK, whose fiction has been widely published in magazines and anthologies.
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Angel of Death
Ben Cheetham
Mystery & Thrillers / Short Stories / Horror
From the bestselling author of Blood Guilt comes a breathless new thriller.A disillusioned detective with nothing left to lose.Catching criminals is all DI Jim Monahan has ever been good at. Just ask his ex-wife. Now he's staring down the barrel of a lonely retirement. Worse still, he's no longer sure he believes in the law he's spent his life upholding. Then comes a call that will test what remains of his belief to its limits and beyond...A shadowy ring of powerful people who'll do anything to protect a depraved secret.In Sheffield a soon-to-be bankrupt businessman has gone on a murderous rampage against his own family. The man and his wife lie dead in their burning mansion. Their son and daughter are found outside, riddled with shotgun pellets, barely alive. It seems like an open-and-shut case. But the charred ruins of the house reveal evidence of a second sickening crime - one involving a young girl who went missing fifteen...
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