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Spider's Web
Written by Ben Cheetham
Narrated by Cameron Stewart
Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
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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 sister, Jessica, was abducted. Fast forward twenty years. The case has long since gone cold. But Anna made a promise to look after her little sister. And it's a promise she intends to keep no matter how long it takes...
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Ben Cheetham
Ben Cheetham is an award-winning writer and Pushcart Prize nominee. His writing spans genres, but he has a passion for dark, gritty crime fiction. He lives in Sheffield, UK, where—when he's not chasing around after his son—he spends most of his time locked away in his study racking his brain for the next paragraph, the next sentence, the next word. For more information, visit BenCheetham.com.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Spider’s Web – Dancing With The DevilBen 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.