Eddie Collins is my most memorable character from books I have read in the last five years. Whenever I read a crime book I can’t help myself and compare the detectives/CSIs to Eddie and Eddie always trumps them all. Not just for his expertise and clear talent for forensic work but for his character. He is the grumpiest, most difficult man to work and most likely live with, but he is also the most real person I have ever come across in fiction books.

Of course this is all down to Andrew Barrett having such a long experience working in the Police force and his professional expertise that feeds his books, but clearly Andrew is also a very talented author that just keeps on giving.

With this new first book is Eddie Collins series, we go back to the start, where Eddie still has a wife, daughter and a dog, at least for a little while. Eddie gets tangled in a mess of domestic burglaries, murders and an old man with a secret much bigger and more dangerous than anything Eddie has ever come across. And when it all comes to light, Eddie is fighting to his life and life of others. And this is on top of all the trouble from his personal life.

Andrew’s books never disappoint. They are fast, full of interesting details not just from forensics, but other policing fields and above all they are full of exceptional characters that make the books flow with ease. This is a hold your breath till the last page sort of book!