Spider's Web (41 page)
Authors: Ben Cheetham
Tags: #Mystery; Thriller & Suspense, #Mystery, #Thrillers & Suspense, #Crime, #Crime Fiction
F
AST
FORWARD
TWENTY
YEARS
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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…
“Fast-moving action and lots of twists make this debut novel a most enjoyable read.”
The Times
for
Blood Guilt
“An absolutely fantastic read… I will definitely look forward to the next one.”
BestCrimeBooks.co.uk
“A tough case for DI Jim Monaghan... demonstrating Cheetham’s gritty authority in a novel that grips the reader by the throat.”
Good Books Guide
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EN
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HEETHAM
’s short stories have been widely published in the UK, US and Australia. He self-published his first novel,
Blood Guilt
, in 2011. It sold over 100, 000 copies.
Ben lives in Sheffield, where he can usually be found racking his brain for the next provocative thriller in the Steel City series.
You can connect with Ben on:
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www.facebook.com/BenCheethamBooks/
Twitter:
@Ben_CheethamUK
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www.bencheetham.blogspot.co.uk/
or via his website:
www.bencheetham.com/
Every city has its darkness. It may be buried deeper in some cities than others, but it’s there. Most people choose to look away from that darkness. A few force themselves to stare into it so that they can know their enemies. And they’re only too aware that the line which divides kidnap, rape, murder and corruption from love, family, home and happiness is thinner than you could ever imagine.
Sheffield is a city like any other. In the shadows of its factories, tower blocks, shopping centres and housing estates, a seemingly endless battle to hold that thin line is being fought by men like disgraced ex-cop Harlan Miller and jaded veteran detective Jim Monahan, and by women like beautiful but deeply damaged prostitute Angel. They all want one thing – justice. But what is justice? Each has their own ideas. Each is willing to risk their life to save others. And each is finding out that if you stare into darkness for too long, you may well end up forgetting what light looks like.
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Last night, eight-year old Ethan Reed was abducted at gunpoint from his home by an armed intruder. We are urging members of the public to get in touch. A coordinated search of the local area will be carried out.
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Four years ago, Detective Inspector Harlan Miller killed someone. Now - divorced, alone, consumed by guilt - the world outside his prison walls holds little for him. Until, mere days after his release, an eight-year-old boy is abducted. Ethan Reed. The son of the man he killed.
Frustrated by a police search that finds nothing, driven to desperation by repeated appeals that bring in no new leads, Ethan’s mother knocks on the door of the man she has reason to hate most in the world. She has one question to ask – beg of Harlan Miller. Find her little boy. Do whatever it takes.
Blood Guilt
is available
here
.
In Sheffield, a bankrupt businessman has murdered his family. It seems like an open-and-shut case: a desperate man resorting to desperate measures.
In Middlesbrough, a woman named Angel is heading south. She is a woman alone. A prostitute. Now a murderer. And she has only one thing on her mind: revenge.
Two crimes, a hundred miles apart, but a terrible secret connects them. And although the courts may not agree, DI Jim Monahan has all the proof he needs to bring down justice on a group of particularly vicious criminals...
Angel of Death
is available
here
.
Thirty years of fear. Thirty years of closed minds. It is all about to change.
A Sheffield prostitute has disappeared. With no family to fight for her, she’s just the latest in a long line of missing girls stretching back three decades. Nobody cares about their names. Nobody remembers their faces. They are the unloved, the damaged, the forgotten, the damned…
Amongst the women working South Yorkshire’s streets, rumours of a serial killer have long circulated. But the police’s top brass don’t want to know about it. Talk of serial killers panics the public and embarrasses the department...
But two very different detectives, each driven by their own dangerous obsessions, are being drawn into a murky world of perversion, murder and corruption that stretches from the streets to the corridors of power.
Justice for the Damned
is available
here
.
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EBRUARY 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...
F
AST
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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