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DS Regan Carter Collection Books 1-4 - DS Regan Carter Books

Genres: Crime, Thriller, Suspense
Formats: E-Book
Age Groups: 18+

Welcome to the DS Regan Carter series. This is a collection of UK crime thrillers featuring a spectacular female detective hellbent on doing the right thing – her own way. Over 1400 pages of non-stop action and emotion will leave you exhausted and hungry for more. Plus, this boxset contains one very special, exclusive chapter at the end of book four. A Random Kill. How Regan’s life changed DS Regan Carter finds herself working in a dead woman’s shoes in the Major Crime Unit. She hates it, and she hates dead bodies – something this department exists for. Here in the deep end, Regan faces her first homicide – a murdered young mother whose child has been abducted. This is a gruesome case, but it gets worse. The Dark Arches. How Regan gets shot Regan is getting too close to gang boss Jonathon Bradshaw. But Bradshaw has a secret weapon:...

A Random Kill - DS Regan Carter Book

Genres: Crime, Thriller, Suspense
Formats: E-Book, Paperback
Age Groups: 18+

Book 1 in the DS Regan Carter series. DS Regan Carter never imagined she would end up in the Major Crime Unit, surrounded by the one thing she despises most: death. But when a young mother is brutally killed and her baby kidnapped, Regan is thrown into a terrifying battle with a local organized crime group. As she closes in on the gang-members, she must also face the horror of her own past. For fans of gripping police procedurals, and crime thrillers with strong female leads, A Random Kill is a must-read. Don't miss out on this heart-pounding opener in the DS Regan Carter series. Buy A Random Kill today.

The Colour of Fury - DS Regan Carter Book

Genres: Crime, Thriller, Suspense
Formats: E-Book, Paperback
Age Groups: 18+

Is this the final book in the DS Regan Carter series? Troubled detective, Regan Carter, has only one more rung to climb, one more OCG boss to nail and then it's all over. Finished. She's hunting him down, but she has one weakness. Kingston is the man at the top, and he's as far outside of Regan's grasp as a mass murderer can get, but he has one weakness. And there's the question of Regan's mother. See how Sweeney Todd, a chain, and an Out of Order sign feature in this exciting crime thriller where a redhead shows her colour of fury. Finish the DS Regan Carter series now.

Cutting Ties - DS Regan Carter Book

Genres: Crime, Thriller, Suspense
Formats: E-Book, Paperback
Age Groups: 18+

Book 3 in the DS Regan Carter series. Regan's past is a weapon, and her mother’s finger tightens on the trigger. Bradshaw's future is a massacre that promises devastation. One final job. One shocking truth. One deadly trap. Regan is caught between a mother’s betrayal and a killer’s ambition. But with her own life in danger, and the lines between ally and enemy dissolving, can Regan break free and race to stop him before it’s too late? Get the DS Regan Carter series now.

The dark Arches - DS Regan Carter Book

Genres: Crime, Thriller, Suspense
Formats: E-Book, Paperback
Age Groups: 18+

Book Two in the DS Regan Carter series. Bradshaw has unleashed a monster. Eric Clements. His prey is DS Regan Carter. His goal is to kill her - eventually. As the clock ticks down on a city-wide massacre, Regan faces a terrifying truth: she’s not just fighting for justice anymore, she’s fighting for survival. Fear gnaws at Regan. She’s in too deep; the stakes are impossibly high. Bradshaw’s deadly game leaves her reeling, and Eric Clements, a predator hungry for her blood, stalks her every move. Despite the terror, she won’t back down, even as Eric gets closer.

Death Warning - CSI Eddie Collins Book

Genres: Crime, Thriller, Suspense
Formats: E-Book, Paperback
Age Groups: 18+

Would you break the rules to let a mother hold her daughter one last time? A young male is brutally stabbed to death in a neglected yard, and the weather has already destroyed any potential forensic evidence before CSI Eddie Collins can get there. While at the scene he takes another call, this time he’s needed at a female suicide in a good part of Leeds. Eddie is stunned to find both deaths are connected. There’s a lot of work for Eddie and his small team, and while they’re working to prove the case against the killer, the killer is busy in another part of town. Join Eddie as he dives headfirst into this dark and thrilling crime investigation, where he faces tragedy and horror, and where he risks everything to find the truth before the killer finds him.

CSI Eddie Collins Collection Books 4-6 - CSI Eddie Collins Books

Genres: Crime, Thriller, Suspense
Formats: E-Book
Age Groups: 18+

“Andrew Barrett - a truly talented writer,” Michael Wood, best-selling author of the DCI Matilda Darke series. “A gritty and uncompromising book with an unforgettable main character. Gripping, fast-paced and spiced with dark humour.” Elly Griffiths – best-selling author of the Ruth Galloway series. Welcome to the best-selling CSI Eddie Collins series. This is the second boxed set of three crime thrillers in this celebrated series featuring a man hellbent on doing the right thing – his own way. Over 1000 pages of non-stop action and emotion will leave you exhausted and hungry for more. Ledston Luck. This is why Eddie wept. CSI Eddie Collins attends an abandoned chapel with his young colleague, James, where they begin examining a body that has been there a very long time. The body is booby-trapped, and James is killed. This is the story of how Eddie fights twisted demons of the past and...

CSI Eddie Collins Collection Books 1-3 - CSI Eddie Collins Books

Genres: Crime, Thriller, Suspense
Formats: E-Book
Age Groups: 18+

"Andrew Barrett - a truly talented writer,” Michael Wood, best-selling author of the DCI Matilda Darke series “A gritty and uncompromising book with an unforgettable main character. Gripping, fast-paced and spiced with dark humour.” Elly Griffiths – best-selling author of the Ruth Galloway series Welcome to the best-selling CSI Eddie Collins series. This is a boxed set of the first three crime thrillers in this celebrated series featuring a man hellbent on doing the right thing – his own way. 1000 pages of non-stop action and emotion will leave you exhausted and hungry for more. The Pain of Strangers. This is how Eddie’s life changed. CSI Eddie Collins’s wife leaves him. She only comes back once – to take the dog. At work, Eddie is battling bad people. One bad person in particular seeks to choose how Eddie, and the victims he tries to protect, will die. Black by Rose....

The Pain of Strangers - CSI Eddie Collins Book

Genres: Crime, Thriller, Suspense
Formats: E-Book, Paperback, Hardback
Age Groups: 18+

Youths disappearing from the streets. Smashed bodies ejected into the River Aire. And CSI Eddie Collins is about to find out how they died. Abandoned by a cruel wife and tormented by a hateful boss, the only thing keeping CSI Eddie Collins sane is his job. When a dead youth is found on a Leeds street, the trail leads him to a killer adept at disposing of those who don’t deserve anything better. And sometimes that includes unfortunate police officers who get too close. Eddie finds himself on the killer’s wrong side, forced to watch as a colleague slowly dies in a vicious trap. The only way to save him is to make a deal – deliver the killer’s real target. The most dangerous deal is the one you can't refuse. The Pain of Strangers is the first in the series of gripping crime thrillers featuring everyone's favourite CSI, Eddie...

This Side of Death - CSI Eddie Collins Book

Genres: Crime, Thriller, Suspense
Formats: E-Book, Paperback
Age Groups: 18+

This Side of Death. When the past comes back to hunt you. Alex Sheridan believes the only way she can be free of her demons is to kill the men in her life. She has a list, and Crime Scene Investigator Eddie Collins is on it. Death misses Eddie by inches, and Alex is locked away in Juniper Hill high-security hospital. Everything is fine for Eddie until one day four years later, when Alex escapes. This time she’s better prepared. The week that follows ruptures Eddie’s life and shatters the belief he had in his own past, leaving him wondering what really happened, and facing one stark choice: who to kill and who to save. This Side of Death is the most revealing CSI Eddie Collins novel to date. Prepare to see inside his past and understand what makes him the angriest, most feared, and yet most respected CSI in...

The Dead Trilogy - SOCO Roger Conniston Books

Genres: Crime, Thriller, Suspense
Formats: E-Book
Age Groups: 18+

The complete best-selling collection of The Dead Trilogy, featuring SOCO Roger Conniston. 1400 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 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 wants Roger’s life too, and time is running out. Stealing Elgar. No one can question Roger’s loyalty. Except those he won’t give it to. Scenes of Crime Officer, Roger Conniston, ventures out alone to find his wife. He doesn’t trust the police anymore, and he despises the man who kidnapped her. Hades is a brutal killer who is planning...

The Death of Jessica Ripley - CSI Eddie Collins Book

Genres: Crime, Thriller, Suspense
Formats: E-Book, Paperback
Age Groups: 18+

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 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 again, incrementally rebuilding herself by stealing the lives of those she blames for stealing hers. But things aren’t always how they appear; sometimes old friends aren’t friends at all. Sometimes, it’s just business. And sometimes the evidence lies. Can CSI Eddie Collins trust the evidence, or is someone out to get even? And if Jessica...

The End of Lies

Genres: Psychology, Thriller, Suspense
Formats: E-Book, Audio, Paperback, Hardback
Age Groups: 18+

The lies behind the librarian, the gang boss, and two-million quid. My name is Becky. I arrived home to find my husband, Chris, stabbed to death and a gang of men ransacking our house. Turns out that Chris had something that belonged to them. And if I want to stay alive, I have to find it and return it. They’ve given me seven days. And a beating. There is nowhere to hide and no time left to look. So I will stand my ground as the deadline approaches. All I have is a head full of lies and a very bad plan. This is my story. If you like fast-paced psychological thrillers that grab you by the throat, you’ll love Andrew Barrett’s The End of Lies. What's Becky really up against? And what happens at the end of the seven days?

Ledston Luck - CSI Eddie Collins Book

Genres: Crime, Thriller, Suspense
Formats: E-Book, Paperback
Age Groups: 18+

They say you can always trust a copper. They’re lying. They lied thirty years ago and they’re still lying today. When two teenagers go missing near an old mining village called Ledston Luck, an investigation uncovers more than a community crippled by injustice and secrets. It uncovers a dead body in a long-abandoned chapel. Crime Scene Investigator, Eddie Collins, heads a scene examination that goes horribly wrong. The body is booby-trapped, and one of the team killed. Eddie is heartbroken and furious and is determined to find the truth Ledston Luck is hiding. His determination brings him into violent conflict with the Professional Standards Department, and leaves him removed from duty, with public opinion and his boss against him. Eddie goes it alone and discovers there are more killings to come, payback for horrific crimes that are decades old, but still raw. But before he can warn the victims, he...

Sword of Damocles - CSI Eddie Collins Book

Genres: Crime, Thriller, Suspense
Formats: E-Book, Paperback
Age Groups: 18+

Crime Scene Investigator, Eddie Collins, finds himself suspended from duty – not for breaking the rules, but for smashing them to pieces. It looked like a straightforward burn-out with a dead body in the driver’s seat. CSI Eddie Collins finds out that this apparent suicide isn’t a suicide at all. And the deeper he digs, the more twisted this case becomes. Eddie’s attention is focused on the victim’s husband, a curious man who seemingly has nothing to gain from his wife’s death. Only when he teams up with DI Benson do they make headway, determining that the motive for the killing is buried in the past. But there’s more to it than anyone could have suspected, another layer – a mysterious stranger, a kidnapping, and a murder that has its roots in the 1970s – details of which are extremely sensitive, but ignored by Eddie as he relentlessly pursues the...

Black by Rose - CSI Eddie Collins Book

Genres: Crime, Thriller, Suspense
Formats: E-Book, Paperback
Age Groups: 18+

Crime Scene Investigator, Eddie Collins, always did the right thing – only this time it could kill him. Eddie knew there was something out of place. It was a double murder but rigged to look like a murder-suicide, and it was high-profile enough for the Major Crime Unit (MCU) to recruit him. But that’s when Eddie’s problems really began. Slade Crosby’s vile gang, murder, rape, and rob their way around the city. The MCU have been trying to bring down the whole family for years, but Slade always wriggled free – growing stronger, further out of reach. When Eddie finds a victim dead, he takes things to a dangerous new level, and discovers why Slade is always one step ahead. Someone is prepared to sell-out undercover officers, prepared to kill Eddie Collins too, just to stay away from their own past. With a gun at his head, Eddie must find...

The Third Rule

Genres: Crime, Dystopian, Thriller
Formats: E-Book, Paperback
Age Groups: 18+

If they brought back the death penalty for serious crime, would you support it? Would you still support it if they charged the wrong man? "I always root for the underdog and was willing him to succeed as the story approached its exciting climax." Crime Scene Investigator Jack Riley was a hero for bringing down an armed robber. Four years later, against a backdrop of riots opposed to the new and brutal death penalty known as The Rules, Jack is shattered when his son is killed in a hit and run. Fuelled by desperation, Jack embarks on a mission to find his son's killer and in a display of his former brilliance, unravels a much darker truth. But when he exposes it, the government declare him a Rule Three violator – wanted for murder. He becomes the target of a relentless government assassin and a detective who enjoys executing criminals...

No More Tears - SOCO Roger Conniston Book

Genres: Crime, Thriller, Suspense
Formats: E-Book, Paperback
Age Groups: 18+

Roger is about to pull the trigger. But then decides to forgive himself. Temporarily at least. Acting so far outside the law that he’s as much a criminal as those he pursues, SOCO Roger Conniston chooses a name from a list of Hades’ gang members. That name is Jess. A few miles away, a killer reads a name on his latest instruction. That name is Roger Conniston, and that killer is very good at his job. His name is Jess. But taking retribution isn’t as straightforward as either man hoped. Someone else has his finger in the killing pie, and he wants them both dead. When fighting a killer becomes a battle for revenge – this is No More Tears If you like fast-paced crime thrillers with a forensic slant, raw emotions, and characters that reach out of the book and grab you by the throat, you’ll love Andrew Barrett’s...

Stealing Elgar - SOCO Roger Conniston Book

Genres: Crime, Thriller, Suspense
Formats: E-Book, Paperback
Age Groups: 18+

No one can question Roger’s loyalty. Except those he won’t give it to. Scenes of Crime Officer, Roger Conniston, ventures out alone to find his wife. He doesn’t trust the police anymore, and he certainly doesn’t trust the man who kidnapped her. His name is Hades and he’s planning Britain’s largest robbery, and he doesn’t mind erasing anyone who’d like to stop him. Roger’s wife is surety that he will destroy evidence of Hades’ intentions. She doesn’t know it but she’s literally sitting on a bomb. Roger does know it and is furious. But will his fury get him there in time? Stealing Elgar is rough ride through hell with nothing going right for anyone, especially Roger. If you like fast-paced crime thrillers with a forensic slant, raw emotions, and characters that grip you by the throat, you’ll love Andrew Barrett’s Roger Conniston series. To experience Roger's battle against top...

A Long Time Dead - SOCO Roger Conniston Book

Genres: Crime, Thriller, Suspense
Formats: E-Book, Paperback
Age Groups: 18+

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, the one who knows Roger’s secrets, is counting down the minutes until Roger appears in his sights. Can forensic evidence save him or will the real killer get him first?