Author: andrewbarrett
The complete best-selling collection of The Dead Trilogy, featuring SOCO Roger Conniston. 1500 pages of killer action and suspense that lead to a ‘fast-paced and thrilling climax’.A Long Time Dead. Everyone trusts Roger. He’s got an honest face… for a killer.Two dead women. All the evidence points to Scenes of Crime Officer, Roger Conniston. The real killer uses Roger’s sordid secrets against him … Conniston. The real killer uses Roger’s sordid secrets against him until no one believes he is innocent. He’s about to lose his job, his wife, and his freedom. But the killer wants it all; the killer…
He’s acidic and twisted; a prince of sarcasm who hates people. Not ideal qualities in a CSI. But what CSI Eddie Collins lacks in people skills, he more than makes up for in crime scene expertise. But this time, Eddie has doubts; this time, the evidence is wrong.Jessica Ripley didn’t kill her ex-husband. But everyone thinks she did. After serving twelve years for his murder, it’s time to get her … murder, it’s time to get her own back on those who put her inside.It isn’t long before she learns what it’s like to really murder someone. She’s becoming whole…
I’m Eddie Collins, a CSI. I was finishing up at a sudden death in an old house, waiting for the body snatchers to arrive, when I heard a noise from the cellar.I had time to kill, so I went to investigate.Turns out I wasn’t the only one with killing on his mind.
I’m Eddie Collins, a CSI.Ever had that feeling of being watched but when you turn around no one’s there?I have.It was raining, and I was working a murder scene around midnight when that prickle ran up my spine. If I’d listened to that feeling, if I’d thought back to my past, maybe I could have prevented the terror that was to come.Back at the office, I found a death threat on my desk.I had no … a death threat on my desk.I had no idea who sent it or why they wanted to kill me.But I was about to find…
When you’re accused of murder, you’d better hide, run, or fight.The Third Rule is England’s new infallible capital punishment where absolute proof of guilt is not required. There’s always a queue at the Slaughter House doors.CSI Eddie Collins hasn’t killed anyone, but he knows who has. That’s why he’s on the Slaughter House list, and when a government hunter tracks him down, Eddie has to fight or … down, Eddie has to fight or die.“If you want to kill serious crime, you have to kill serious criminals.”Sir George Deacon, Minster of Justice.If you like fast-paced crime thrillers with a forensic…
“It’ll screw you up into a tiny ball of hatred and then spit you out into a cell.” There are bad people on both sides of the law; those so hungry for victory that they will crush anyone to achieve it. SOCO, Roger Conniston, always believed in the law. Not now though. Now he believes only in himself. He has business with people who have no right being alive, and if success costs him everything … success costs him everything they left him with, he’ll happily pay. more
“Examining crime scenes was never supposed to get personal.” Roger Conniston is up against an ex-bare-knuckle fighter called Hades who is planning the most audacious robbery in England’s history. Hades has planned it in meticulous detail, from the explosive diversions that will shock the nation, to the selection of his team and the weapons they’ll use.Roger must decide whether to continue working … decide whether to continue working with the police and put faith in the flawed investigative skills of DCI Chamberlain, or cut the ties and venture out alone to stop Hades and secure everything he cares about. more
Everyone trusts Roger. He’s got an honest face… for a killer.Roger Conniston is a Scenes of Crime Officer, aiming to stay out of trouble but finding it anyway. The last thing he expected was to be arrested for a woman’s murder.Could it have anything to do with the arms dealer he’s tracking, the one who’s a police officer? Maybe his vindictive ex-lover is out to destroy him?But the real killer, … destroy him?But the real killer, the one who knows Roger’s sordid secrets, is counting down the minutes until Roger appears in his sights.Can forensic evidence save him or will…