Books by Ben Nicholls

Someone disillusioned with the criminal justice system has decided that there is only one option available to prevent the scales of justice from tilting in favour of those that carry out heinous crimes. Believing the system broken, he ruthlessly dispenses his own brand of retribution.Cutting a swathe through a rural community, he subjects his hapless preys to unimaginable cruelty in twisted games of cat and mouse before executing them in escalating brutality.Detectives Englund and Hicks are tasked with tracking down a killer amidst their close-knit community, seemingly without motive.When a young girl is kidnapped, coinciding with the release of a notorious paedophile, Englund is forced to evaluate his own position and question what justice really means.Will Englund and the enigmatic Hicks catch the killer before the town implodes and takes justice into its own hands?Or will they become another statistic in an ever-increasing body count?