Ben Cheetham
Autore di Don't Look Back: A haunting mystery perfect for the long, dark nights
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Don't Look Back: A haunting mystery perfect… di Ben Cheetham
Sometimes the very worst things can happen to a family but yet they continue to search for the new start that will let them resume a normal life, or at least what appears to be "normal". Desperation can sometimes lead to a new opportunity that appears to be the "golden egg" but turns out to be so much worse than what you expected...so MUCH WORSE!!! The author has written a horror story that tells the tale of a desperate family that leaves their small home where a horrible, unimaginable accident occurred for a beautiful mansion sitting on a cliff overlooking The English Channel. The family answered a detailed questionnaire which resulting in allowing them to move into this century old house entirely rent-free. I wanted to yell at them to find out the WHY of this opportunity that was certainly too good to be true...there had to be a catch. The catch was that the place is reputed to be haunted. The characters are very well-developed, the descriptions are more than breath-taking, the plot is revealing, and the story moves along quickly. TAs with most haunted house stories, the house itself becomes a "main character" and the people are just there to help it along. Slowly what has been hidden within its walls for many decades is revealed. Surprises continue to occur as the tension rises to an almost unbearable level. It appears like the house has a strong hold on the family and has and has never had, any intention of allowing them to leave. The author has given us a winding and twisting plot that climaxes in a dramatic ending. The book carries a vibe, that even though it is supposed to be fiction... will more than scare you. Maybe the entire story should carry a "possible trigger" warning for some.… (altro)
½I LOVED this story! This was my first net Galley audiobook and I look forward to listening to more. The narrator did a wonderful job and best of all the story held my interest from start to finish. I am so glad to see that there's a second book in the series. i would definitely recommend this book to anyone who likes a slow buildup and a scary haunted house. I look forward to reading Benn Cheetham's other books as well. Thank you Net Galley for the opportunity to listen to this audio book.
The Lost Ones instantly caught my eyes with its wonderful cover and I thought the description of the book sounded very exciting. And, luckily, the book proved to be a real gem. I had never read anything by Ben Cheetham before I read this book, but now I must add his name to the list of authors to keep an eye out for.
The story is engrossing, a young girl goes missing, and since her father has a lot of enemies is there plenty of suspects. The town has once before been through an ordeal. Forty years before, Elijah and Joanna Ingham was brutally murdered in their house only their daughters survived. But, surely this murder of Elijah and Joanna Ingham couldn't have anything to do with the missing girl?
The Lost Ones is intense and heartbreaking to read. Little Erin is missing, and her parents are desperate to have her back, but has someone taken her or is she just lost? As the hours pass the situation becomes more and more desperate and secrets are revealed. The book is very good and I must admit that I was a bit surprised by the ending. I liked how Cheetham really demonstrated throughout story how devastating this is for the family and the toll it takes on them. You know from the beginning that Erin's mom has a secret, but what is she hiding? The murder at the Ingham house forty years ago, and the legend that the place is haunted gave the story an extras feeling of darkness.
I want to thank Thomas & Mercer for providing me with a free copy through NetGalley for an honest review! … (altro)
The story is engrossing, a young girl goes missing, and since her father has a lot of enemies is there plenty of suspects. The town has once before been through an ordeal. Forty years before, Elijah and Joanna Ingham was brutally murdered in their house only their daughters survived. But, surely this murder of Elijah and Joanna Ingham couldn't have anything to do with the missing girl?
The Lost Ones is intense and heartbreaking to read. Little Erin is missing, and her parents are desperate to have her back, but has someone taken her or is she just lost? As the hours pass the situation becomes more and more desperate and secrets are revealed. The book is very good and I must admit that I was a bit surprised by the ending. I liked how Cheetham really demonstrated throughout story how devastating this is for the family and the toll it takes on them. You know from the beginning that Erin's mom has a secret, but what is she hiding? The murder at the Ingham house forty years ago, and the legend that the place is haunted gave the story an extras feeling of darkness.
I want to thank Thomas & Mercer for providing me with a free copy through NetGalley for an honest review! … (altro)
Spider’s Web – Dancing With The Devil
Ben Cheetham returns with his fourth in his Steel City Thrillers which once again is a fast paced crime thriller that races around Yorkshire, the Moors and beyond. Once again the jaded Detective Chief Inspector Jim Monahan returns to lead the case, with grit and determination, and someone who is restricted by those ranked above him.
Spider’s Web picks up where Justice of The Damned left off on the trail of a paedophile gang and in particular who seems to be the procurer of the victims, Spider. The people he supplies are well respected, well resourced people who for over twenty years, in spite of the Police have managed to keep their personal proclivities out of the public eye and more importantly out of court.
At the same time prostitutes have gone missing in Sheffield for thirty years, never to be seen again and rumours abound of a serial killer. DCI Jim Monahan has a small team that investigates the missing with reluctant witness it at times seems he is running through mud. He has a little black book of one of the convicted with names of other people that need to be sent to prison but with no evidence, no witnesses he has nowhere to go and the offenders know it.
Anna Young remembers the day well, when her younger sister, Jessica is grabbed off the street and thrown in to the back of a dark van in 1993. Anna relives that day every day of her life and has sworn to find out the truth, and through a blog tells the public what the Police and press cannot, and this gets her in to various amounts of trouble. She does not care, on that day twenty years before her family died, eventually killing her father ten years ago, she is determined to find the truth and her sister.
Monahan knows his investigations are going nowhere fast and decides to give Anna a little help and point her in the right direction, and the key to their investigations is to find a former children homes worker who seems to have disappeared from the face of the earth. All they know is the kids knew him as Spider due to the spider’s web tattoo on his body, and that he was known to abuse and procure children for the abusers but had never been charged, due to lack of evidence.
As the investigation picks up speed it means Anna and Monahan have to trust each other and know they need each other to crack the case. At the same time it throws up something neither expected but welcomed and brought a much more needed urgency to find Spider. What they need to do is understand Paganism and more importantly Wicca taken to the extreme. As the pace picks up the more lives depend on them getting the evidence to close the case finally.
Yet again Ben Cheetham through his prose paints a picture of despair and hope well at the same time making all the characters seem human. There is even a slight reflection to the current investigations of the South Yorkshire Police in to current celebrity sex rings. Some of the imagery that Cheetham uses is breath taking and must have taken a lot of research to use popular areas so well known to locals and give them a fresh look.
Using both Monahan and Anna Jones as his foil, the only person he can really trust, is an interesting addition in this book. The challenges they both overcome and the danger it puts them in. This really is a fantastic crime thriller full of pace and characters to remember.… (altro)
Ben Cheetham returns with his fourth in his Steel City Thrillers which once again is a fast paced crime thriller that races around Yorkshire, the Moors and beyond. Once again the jaded Detective Chief Inspector Jim Monahan returns to lead the case, with grit and determination, and someone who is restricted by those ranked above him.
Spider’s Web picks up where Justice of The Damned left off on the trail of a paedophile gang and in particular who seems to be the procurer of the victims, Spider. The people he supplies are well respected, well resourced people who for over twenty years, in spite of the Police have managed to keep their personal proclivities out of the public eye and more importantly out of court.
At the same time prostitutes have gone missing in Sheffield for thirty years, never to be seen again and rumours abound of a serial killer. DCI Jim Monahan has a small team that investigates the missing with reluctant witness it at times seems he is running through mud. He has a little black book of one of the convicted with names of other people that need to be sent to prison but with no evidence, no witnesses he has nowhere to go and the offenders know it.
Anna Young remembers the day well, when her younger sister, Jessica is grabbed off the street and thrown in to the back of a dark van in 1993. Anna relives that day every day of her life and has sworn to find out the truth, and through a blog tells the public what the Police and press cannot, and this gets her in to various amounts of trouble. She does not care, on that day twenty years before her family died, eventually killing her father ten years ago, she is determined to find the truth and her sister.
Monahan knows his investigations are going nowhere fast and decides to give Anna a little help and point her in the right direction, and the key to their investigations is to find a former children homes worker who seems to have disappeared from the face of the earth. All they know is the kids knew him as Spider due to the spider’s web tattoo on his body, and that he was known to abuse and procure children for the abusers but had never been charged, due to lack of evidence.
As the investigation picks up speed it means Anna and Monahan have to trust each other and know they need each other to crack the case. At the same time it throws up something neither expected but welcomed and brought a much more needed urgency to find Spider. What they need to do is understand Paganism and more importantly Wicca taken to the extreme. As the pace picks up the more lives depend on them getting the evidence to close the case finally.
Yet again Ben Cheetham through his prose paints a picture of despair and hope well at the same time making all the characters seem human. There is even a slight reflection to the current investigations of the South Yorkshire Police in to current celebrity sex rings. Some of the imagery that Cheetham uses is breath taking and must have taken a lot of research to use popular areas so well known to locals and give them a fresh look.
Using both Monahan and Anna Jones as his foil, the only person he can really trust, is an interesting addition in this book. The challenges they both overcome and the danger it puts them in. This really is a fantastic crime thriller full of pace and characters to remember.… (altro)
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