The Pain of Strangers: Killing Them Since 1987 (CSI Eddie Collins, Band 1) - Softcover

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Norton Bailey blamed street robbers for his mother’s murder back in 1987. He’s been trapping and killing them ever since. And it was all going well until one of them escaped.
Now, Norton's decades-long revenge is dangerously exposed.

CSI Eddie Collins—a man blessed with skill but cursed with sarcastic wit—is dragged onto the case. His unorthodox and violent encounter with a local burglar links him to a savage street gang. And wherever they go, death follows like a hungry dog.

Eddie's abrasiveness clashes with DI Tom Benson, but their shared investigation into Norton is derailed when Benson literally falls into Norton's deadly trap.

The only way to save him is to make a deal: Eddie must deliver Norton's real target, an old man named Walter, who holds the shocking secret of his mother's killing.

With Benson’s life fading and the gang closing in, Eddie is forced into an impossible choice: Save his partner by handing an innocent man to a killer, or let them both suffer The Pain of Strangers?

The Pain of Strangers is the first in the series of gripping crime thrillers featuring everyone's favourite CSI, Eddie Collins, and one that will keep you captive to the very last page.

“If you’re a fan of crime thrillers, beware, this book will drag you in and keep you hostage until the very last page.”

What people say about The Pain of Strangers

• Fiendishly good, absolutely gory, gruesome and darker than you can imagine but with sharp gallows style humour.
• The style of writing is brilliant, short, snappy chapters, with funny titles and the fake realism travels all the way through to the unmissable epilogue.
• One of the finest crime series out there.
• Barrett feeds the reader with the nitty gritty of the dark corners, nasty alleys, and tenements of Leeds.
• I totally loved this book.
• The Pain of Strangers is brutal and thought-provoking.
• Barrett’s writing style is full of sarcastic humour and pulls no punches.
• The whole series is truly compulsive reading.
• The best book I’ve read so far this year.
• The drama, psychological drama, suspense, timing, and original plot make this one of the best books I’ve read in a while.
• The Pain of Strangers is well written by a master craftsman who knows his subject inside out.
• I was caught completely off guard by this whole book. This is my first book from Barrett and it was... disturbingly good! This complex story was a constant punch in the gut with grit and criminal angst.

Also available by Andrew Barrett:

• The Pain of Strangers – 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
• Death Warning - CSI Eddie Collins 7
• The Lift – a CSI Eddie Collins Short Story
• The Note – a CSI Eddie Collins Novella
• The Lock – a CSI Eddie Collins Novella
• The Crew – a CSI Eddie Collins Novella
• A Random Kill - DS Regan Carter 1
• The Dark Arches - DS Regan Carter 2
• Cutting Ties - DS Regan Carter 3
• The Colour of Fury - DS Regan Carter 4
• A Long Time Dead – SOCO Roger Conniston 1
• Stealing Elgar – SOCO Roger Conniston 2
• No More Tears – SOCO Roger Conniston 3
• The CSI Eddie Collins boxset - Books 1 - 3
• The CSI Eddie Collins boxset - Books 4 - 6
• Short and Curlies - The CSI Eddie Collins Novellas (including a bonus short, Eye Contact)
• The Third Rule - CSI Jack Riley, stand-alone crime thriller
• The End of Lies - featuring Becky Rose, a stand-alone psychological thriller

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