The Long Revenge (Eddie Collins Book 4)

Brilliant. This series has easily made it into my top ten favourites. Andrew Barrett has done an amazing job with not only a great group of interesting characters, but a very clever and well thought out plot. I really enjoyed the way this story moved around from the present to events that happened in the past. The main character Eddie Collins is a definite favourite, but I also quite like the Detective Benson and the way they interact between each other.
Eddie Collins might be in charge of his CSI team, however that isn’t going to keep him away from the discovery of a body. Especially if there is something interesting about it. Things however escalate pretty quickly when the body is booby trapped, and three of them are injured quite badly. Eddie isn’t a big fan of being stuck in hospital, and letting someone else run with the investigation, especially after loosing one of his team members. If things aren’t bad enough with more bodies turning up, management seem intent on making life hard for Eddie, and not replacing his staff. Mind you Eddie isn’t doing himself any favours by abusing the media and going against work regulations. So, the race is on to find the killers before anyone else dies. There aren’t enough words to describe just how much I love this book and the other three in the series. Easily worth the 5/5 Star Rating.

This is the fourth in the Eddie Collins series. Again this a rollercoaster of a crime thriller.
Eddie and his team are working on a body when one of his team is killed and Eddie is injured. The body was booty trapped. Eddie will not be stopped until he gets his man.
In this book he still has his unique sense of humour, he still has his dad living with him who still cannot cook. This case has historic abuse, incest, corrupt police and booty trapped bodies.
This is his best case yet. I know when I read one of this series I am going to be thoroughly entertained.
Well done Andrew can't wait for the next in this series.
I would like to thank the author Andrew Barrett, Bloodhound books and Net.galley for giving me the opportunity to read this book in return for giving an honest review

If you like to read books where everything is wonderful then this is certainly not the book for you.
This is the fourth book in the series and if you haven't read the previous ones I do recommend that you do so. The book can be read as a stand-a-lone but in order to fully understand and appreciate the Eddie character you have to have read the other books.
Eddie is a cancerous, headstrong, opinionated individual you come to hate and love at the same time. In each of the books his personality becomes a bit more developed and Eddie gets a better understanding of himself and the people surrounding him. The story in this book is rather dark showing the results of one extreme abusive parent 30 years later. The book starts with chapter 1 "How it began" and chapter 2 "How it ended". During the book you get bits and pieces of the original happenings which causes the devastating results 30 years later with Eddie and co-workers involved.
The scenarios portrayed will definitely stay in your mind after you finished the book.
I liked each book in series but feel this is the best one yet and have to give it a 5 star.
I have the hope that Andrew will continue the series with the more mature Eddie .

This is one of those times when five stars don’t seem enough, the book is absolutely brilliant. With the aftermath of sexual and physical abuse having far-reaching consequences, it is brutal and gruesome in places but there is still some humorous comments and banter from the unstoppable CSI Eddie Collins, who once again is in a battle with authority to get the resources and manpower he desperately needs. The book has so much going on but it is still easy to follow as you get totally absorbed in the story and the characters.

Another fantastic read from Andrew Barrett, I have loved this series about brilliant but grouchy and obnoxious Eddie Collins, CSI extraordinaire. The only downer is I’m all caught up and will have to wait for the next one - and I do hope there will be many more. This was originally released as Ledston Luck, but is being republished this week as The Long Revenge. This is Book 4, and as with the others, it could be read as a stand-alone, but you’ll get so much more from it if you know the characters.

Set an unspecified spell of time after The Hammer Falls, this begins with Eddie accompanying junior CSI James to a decaying chapel where a long dead body has been found. Suddenly there’s an explosion, with shocking consequences, and these set Eddie on the warpath, determined to find the killer, despite cutbacks, political machinations and egos in his department. Unusually, the killer’s identity is revealed early on, along with their gut-wrenching back story, but the suspense is maintained throughout anyway - how many more bodies will pile up, and will Eddie keep his job long enough to solve the mystery?

My favourite thing about this series has turned out to be the gradual evolution of the work relationship between Eddie and Benson, as they have grudgingly learned to respect, trust and maybe even one day like each other. This should not be a surprise given the friendship that Eddie had and then lost in the first book, although this is of a very different nature.

There were some villains that I truly loved to hate, some desperately sad scenes, and some amazingly well written scene descriptions. There is some violence, swearing and gore, but it is not gratuitous. 5 easy stars from me, and a request to Mr Barrett - if you need new members for your advance reading team, please let me know! At least I have the other series to keep me going for now.

Many thanks to NetGalley and Bloodhound Books for the ARC in exchange for an honest review.

This book was a great read. You learn much .more about Eddie and what makes him tick. in this book. The storyline was.really good. Kept me guessing from page one until the end. A lot of action. Highly recommend this book..

This thriller is the fourth installment in a series and I feel that I understood the characters more in this one. I don't know if it was the writing or the fact that I had read the previous three books, but I just felt more connected to them. There was a lot of action and suspense. Definitely recommend this one!

I originally reviewed this book in January 2017 as Ledston Luck. This was my review.
Ledston Luck a small former pit village 7 miles outside of Leeds seems to have got caught in a time wrap since 1986 when the mine was closed. Even the small chapel where the first corpse of a long time dead man is found, was rotten and had been deserted for years and so as the story unfolds you really do wonder if God had ever even ventured the 7 miles from Leeds to Ledston in the first place.
Although this is my first Eddie Collins novel I felt that I had known him for years. Eddie is a SOCO or CSI so I was well excited, as I hadn’t read any books from this angle before. He is rude and not really a team player because he is so thorough at his job, he is unorthodox and a miserable git at times that has a constant dry humour that is pure Yorkshire. I loved this man already and you think he must be a one off until you meet his dad.
This story goes from present day back in time over 30 years before, with a heart breaking story of suffering and abuse of every possible kind that some people could find hard to read with cruelty so shocking it makes you weep. Once the body of the man in the chapel is discovered in present day, it causes the horrific death to follow of a young CSI and it isn’t long before the body count rises again. Some people want the past staying in the past.
Andy Barrett can certainly tell one hell of a story not only of what is happening but how it affects people involved emotionally, including the good guys. The blokes that are often forgotten about. He is definitely an author I shall be reading in the future.

'The Long Revenge', previously published as 'Ledston Luck' back in 2016, is the fourth book in the popular CSI Eddie Collins series. Andrew Barrett seems like a fascinating chap and it's no wonder he writes such excellent, unique and realistic crime fiction, being a practising CSI himself. Do you like your crime thrillers to have a forensic element that adds to the realism? Do you like your lead character to be someone intense and unafraid to take on authority? Andrew writes precisely that kind of crime thriller, and has done so since 1996, about the same time he became a CSI in Yorkshire. Each of his stories is hand-crafted and non-formulaic to give you a peek into the world real CSI's encounter. If you enjoy CSI on television you will have a ball with this wonderful crime series!

One thing I love about the series, including this book, is that you get the chance to walk alongside Scene of Crime Officer (SOCO) Roger Conniston and CSI Eddie Collins as they battle to find evidence to put the criminals away. As Barrett says - "This is as real as it gets without getting your hands bloody". I couldn't agree more with this statement. Eddie is as grumpy and loveable as ever, standing up for what he believes in regardless of the consequences. He also happens to have a wicked sense of humour which adds to the story and lightens the mood. This is another thoroughly entertaining read of the high standard I have come to expect from Mr. Barrett and each book seems to get better and better. The pace is always judged to perfection, and there is plenty of action throughout, you simply cannot go wrong with Eddie!

Many thanks to Bloodhound Books for an ARC. I was not required to post a review, and all thoughts and opinions expressed are my own.

This was the first book of Andrew's I read and loved it so much I have bought another one straight after. I found the beginning a bit confusing as the first murder was so shocking I didn't realise he had died.  I spent a while thinking that the story was going to be about him so got confused, but once I realised I loved it.

The story is very gruesome in places but well written and, although not strictly necessary all the way through, was pivotal to the plot.

The story reads well and the plot keeps you guessing all the way through. would definitely recommend it to everyone who loves forensic police stories.

This is my first Eddie Collins novel, although it is the fourth in the series. I’m not sure how much of Eddie’s background I missed but it seems fine as a stand-alone book.

The story moves between past, the sexual abuse of a young girl by her father and a couple of murders, to the present which is the discovery of the booby-trapped bodies, one of which kills one of Eddie’s co-workers and injures Eddie quite badly. Naturally our Eddie is more than a little upset and tries to go back to work straight from the hospital. When his boss says no, go home for a few days, Eddie has a dust up with the security guard. This is the kind of person Eddie is. He is doggedly determined to do his job despite any obstacles you may put his way. And his senior boss puts many.

I thoroughly enjoyed this book. It was a change to read a mystery from a CSI point of view. I liked Eddie. I liked his banter with Miss Moneypenny (is he dumb or what😲) and I really liked his chats with his dad.

I’ll definitely read more in this series but I’ll start with the first three

Thanks to NetGalley for a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review