The Missing Ones
3 primary works
Book 1
The man raised a hand. 'Why are you doing this?' he asked, panic sucking at his voice.
Angel studied him with a cold fire behind her eyes, greedily drinking in his fear, savouring its bittersweet taste. 'The same reason you did what you did. Because I can.'
Would you break the law to see justice done?
A former prostitute turns to murder in order to take revenge on the men who abused her.
Sheffield: a bankrupt businessman has murdered his family. It seems like an open-and-shut case: a desperate man resorting to desperate measures.
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 DI Jim Monahan finds evidence of a terrible crime that connects them both: the disappearance of a fifteen-year-old girl. As more people turn up dead, Jim begins to question the law he's spent his life upholding...
From the bestselling author of Blood Guilt, Justice for the Damned, Spider's Web and The Lost Ones comes a twisting cat-and-mouse thriller that will have you questioning right from wrong. Perfect for fans of Joy Ellis, Angela Marsons and Robert Bryndza.
What people are saying about Angel of Death:
'My first real page turner of the year. You'll not see the twists coming' Michael Wood, author of the Matilda Darke Series.
'The sheer relentless pace of a story as relevant as today's news sucks in the reader... this accomplished thriller builds to a bloody climax and Cheetham's denouement provides a satisfying final twist' CrimeReview.
'An incredible tour de force that will grip you like a vice and keep you in its tight hold until the very last page' CrimeSquad.
Angel studied him with a cold fire behind her eyes, greedily drinking in his fear, savouring its bittersweet taste. 'The same reason you did what you did. Because I can.'
Would you break the law to see justice done?
A former prostitute turns to murder in order to take revenge on the men who abused her.
Sheffield: a bankrupt businessman has murdered his family. It seems like an open-and-shut case: a desperate man resorting to desperate measures.
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 DI Jim Monahan finds evidence of a terrible crime that connects them both: the disappearance of a fifteen-year-old girl. As more people turn up dead, Jim begins to question the law he's spent his life upholding...
From the bestselling author of Blood Guilt, Justice for the Damned, Spider's Web and The Lost Ones comes a twisting cat-and-mouse thriller that will have you questioning right from wrong. Perfect for fans of Joy Ellis, Angela Marsons and Robert Bryndza.
What people are saying about Angel of Death:
'My first real page turner of the year. You'll not see the twists coming' Michael Wood, author of the Matilda Darke Series.
'The sheer relentless pace of a story as relevant as today's news sucks in the reader... this accomplished thriller builds to a bloody climax and Cheetham's denouement provides a satisfying final twist' CrimeReview.
'An incredible tour de force that will grip you like a vice and keep you in its tight hold until the very last page' CrimeSquad.
Book 2
She woke up to the realisation that she was lying in an awkward heap on the mattress. Her eyes roamed the room like those of a lost little child. Where am I? she wondered. How did I get here? Then the masked figure loomed into view and she remembered and all the fear came rushing back.
'That's it,' said her captor, his voice tauntingly soft. 'Breathe, breathe.'
There were no dead young women.
There was no serial killer.
Or at least that's what they said.
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...
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...
DI Reece Geary and DI Jim Monahan are two very different detectives, each driven by their own dangerous obsessions: Geary, in love with a prostitute, will to anything to get her off the streets, while Monahan is on the trail of a psychopath hiding behind a facade of respectability. Both will be drawn into a murky world of perversion, murder and corruption that reaches much deeper than either man could have imagined...
From the bestselling author of Blood Guilt, Angel of Death, Spider's Web and The Lost Ones comes an addictive serial killer thriller that will have you wondering how far you would go to see justice done. Perfect for fans of Joy Ellis, Angela Marsons and Robert Bryndza.
What people are saying about Justice For The Damned:
'A raw, disturbing and utterly compelling story... the pace doesn't let up until the final pages... you may want to sleep with the lights on after reading' CrimeSquad.
'A gritty tale of troubled relationships... There's some great black comedy... The ending is, in keeping with the rest of the book, brutal' Crime Thriller Hound.
'Wow!!! A brilliant book that pulls no punches... If you like crime books, then this is a must read' Goodreads reviewer, 5 Stars.
'That's it,' said her captor, his voice tauntingly soft. 'Breathe, breathe.'
There were no dead young women.
There was no serial killer.
Or at least that's what they said.
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...
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...
DI Reece Geary and DI Jim Monahan are two very different detectives, each driven by their own dangerous obsessions: Geary, in love with a prostitute, will to anything to get her off the streets, while Monahan is on the trail of a psychopath hiding behind a facade of respectability. Both will be drawn into a murky world of perversion, murder and corruption that reaches much deeper than either man could have imagined...
From the bestselling author of Blood Guilt, Angel of Death, Spider's Web and The Lost Ones comes an addictive serial killer thriller that will have you wondering how far you would go to see justice done. Perfect for fans of Joy Ellis, Angela Marsons and Robert Bryndza.
What people are saying about Justice For The Damned:
'A raw, disturbing and utterly compelling story... the pace doesn't let up until the final pages... you may want to sleep with the lights on after reading' CrimeSquad.
'A gritty tale of troubled relationships... There's some great black comedy... The ending is, in keeping with the rest of the book, brutal' Crime Thriller Hound.
'Wow!!! A brilliant book that pulls no punches... If you like crime books, then this is a must read' Goodreads reviewer, 5 Stars.
Book 3
How long would you keep searching?
1993. A trip to the cinema turns into a nightmare for Anna and her little sister Jessica when two men throw thirteen-year-old Jessica into the back of a van and speed away.
The years tick by... Tick, tick... The police fail to find Jessica and her name fades from the public consciousness... Tick, tick... But every time Anna closes her eyes she's back in that terrible moment, lurching towards Jessica, grabbing for her. So close. So agonisingly close... Tick, tick... Now in her thirties, Anna has no career, no relationship, no children. She's consumed by one purpose – finding Jessica, dead or alive.
DI Jim Monahan has a little black book with forty-two names in it. Jim's determined to put every one of those names behind bars, but his investigation is going nowhere fast. Then a twenty-year-old clue brings Jim and Anna together in search of a shadowy figure known as Spider. Who is Spider? Where is Spider? Does Spider have the answers they want? The only thing Jim and Anna know is that the victims Spider entices into his web have a habit of ending up missing or dead.
Praise for Ben Cheetham:
'Fast-moving action and lots of twists' The Times.
'One of the most powerful, disturbing, but brilliantly written books I've ever had the privilege to read' Breakaway Reviewers.
'Breath-taking. This really is a fantastic crime thriller' Atticus Finch, Top 500 Amazon reviewer.
'Fast-paced, thoroughly researched, and heart-breaking' CrimeSquad.
1993. A trip to the cinema turns into a nightmare for Anna and her little sister Jessica when two men throw thirteen-year-old Jessica into the back of a van and speed away.
The years tick by... Tick, tick... The police fail to find Jessica and her name fades from the public consciousness... Tick, tick... But every time Anna closes her eyes she's back in that terrible moment, lurching towards Jessica, grabbing for her. So close. So agonisingly close... Tick, tick... Now in her thirties, Anna has no career, no relationship, no children. She's consumed by one purpose – finding Jessica, dead or alive.
DI Jim Monahan has a little black book with forty-two names in it. Jim's determined to put every one of those names behind bars, but his investigation is going nowhere fast. Then a twenty-year-old clue brings Jim and Anna together in search of a shadowy figure known as Spider. Who is Spider? Where is Spider? Does Spider have the answers they want? The only thing Jim and Anna know is that the victims Spider entices into his web have a habit of ending up missing or dead.
Praise for Ben Cheetham:
'Fast-moving action and lots of twists' The Times.
'One of the most powerful, disturbing, but brilliantly written books I've ever had the privilege to read' Breakaway Reviewers.
'Breath-taking. This really is a fantastic crime thriller' Atticus Finch, Top 500 Amazon reviewer.
'Fast-paced, thoroughly researched, and heart-breaking' CrimeSquad.