This Side of Death: When the past comes back to hunt you

Andrew Barrett

Aug 2020 · The Ink Foundry

About this ebook

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 England.

If you like fast-paced and gripping crime thrillers with a strong forensic element, you'll love Andrew Barrett's This Side of Death. It will appeal to fans of Kathy Reichs, Robert Bryndza and Angela Marsons.

To experience Eddie’s battle to stay alive, buy This Side of Death today.

What people say about This Side of Death:

~ This is another great book, written with Barrett’s usual attention to detail and sprinkled

liberally with a super-sized helping of Eddie’s black humour.

~ Having the talent to weave a tale interspersed with humor among sometimes grotesque elements of an edgy thriller, never ceases to amaze me.

~ This latest chapter of Eddie Collins’ life is a fantastic thrill-ride, full of suspense and just enough gut-wrenching terror to keep you up at night. Unputdownable.

~ The many twists and turns kept me guessing, right up to the final sting in the tail. A brilliant read.

~ The ending of this book left me breathless. I was nearly exhausted. My reaction was WOW!!!

~ One of Barrett's real writing talents is to put you in the place and time of an event, not to mention in the middle of a scene. You can feel the rain, empathize with the pain, taste the dust, see the stars.

~ If you read this book, or any of the books that feature Eddie Collins, you will not be disappointed. You may even, like me, become addicted.

~ Despite the dark, dangerous criminal there is quite a lot of humour woven in between the more tension-filled parts.

~ I was amazed at how clearly the author described what was going through Alex’s mind through colours, voices, spikes, pain.

Also available by Andrew Barrett:

The Third Rule - CSI Eddie Collins 1

Black by Rose - CSI Eddie Collins 2

Sword of Damocles - CSI Eddie Collins 3

Ledston Luck - CSI Eddie Collins 4

The Death of Jessica Ripley - CSI Eddie Collins 5

This Side of Death – CSI Eddie Collins 6

The Lift - An Eddie Collins Short Story

The Note - An Eddie Collins Novella

The Lock - An Eddie Collins Novella

The Crew – An Eddie Collins Novella

A Long Time Dead - Roger Conniston 1

Stealing Elgar - Roger Conniston 2

No More Tears - Roger Conniston 3

The End of Lies – a psychological thriller with teeth

Ratings and reviews

Andrew Barrett has surpassed all his other books with This Side of Death’. He takes you into the world of Eddie Collins, CSI and his past. This is a frightening case like no other with Andrew’s usual flair of peppering fright with belly laughing humor to keep your emotions on a roller coaster of never ending mystery so thrilling you will find yourself making sure all your windows and doors are locked! Beware, this will consume you and your time to the end!

This Side of Death - a review by Rosemary Kenny What a breathtaking, tense, intimate, horrifying, shockingly realistic, so true to, (possibly real) life, that you feel like a voyeur in Eddie Collins' tormented mind, (as he confronts a crazed killer - and even more shocking, many secrets and lies from his own past). I could go on and on, without quite conveying how utterly brilliant Andrew Barrett's latest Eddie Collins best-seller This Side of Death really is, imho, but the only way to find out just what I'm raving about, is to 110% definitely get yourself a copy of This Side of Death right now...just be sure you've double-locked all the doors and windows and checked under the bed first, because you won't be able to put down this incredible masterpiece of a 50-star rated psychological murder-mystery, once you get started. Guaranteed to thrill and chill - it's the best of its genre you'll read all year!

Andrew just gets better with every book. His really knows how to rack up the tension with brilliant characters and intense plots. This is no exception and had me engrossed from page one. I even took it to the loo with me so I didn't have to put it down. I really can't say enough good things so will simply say GET THIS. You will not be disappointed. I received an ARC of this book but my opinions are my own.

About the author

 Andrew Barrett became a CSI in 1996, and finished his first crime thriller, A Long Time Dead in 1997. Two more books completed the SOCO Roger Conniston trilogy.

Andrew still produces authentic crime thrillers with a forensic flavour. He’s known for his lead character, CSI Eddie Collins, and the acerbic way in which he roots out criminals. Eddie’s series is six books and four novellas in length.

Andrew is a proud Yorkshireman and sets all of his novels in Leeds.

You can find out more about him and his writing at www.andrewbarrett.co.uk