Andrew Barrett has enjoyed variety in his professional life, from engine-builder to farmer, from oilfield service technician in Kuwait, to his current role of Senior CSI in Yorkshire. He's been a CSI since 1996, and has worked on all scene types from terrorism to murder, suicide to rape, drugs manufacture to bomb scenes. One way or another, Andrew's life revolves around crime.In 1997 he finished his first crime thriller, A Long Time Dead, and it's still a readers favourite today, some 150,000 copies later, topping the Amazon charts several times. Two more books featuring SOCO Roger Conniston, Stealing Elgar and No More Tears, completed the trilogy.Today, Andrew is still producing authentic crime thrillers with a forensic flavour that attract attention from readers worldwide. He's also attracted attention from the Yorkshire media, having been featured in the Yorkshire Post and interviewed on BBC Radio Leeds.He's best known for his lead character, CSI Eddie Collins, and the acerbic way in which he roots out criminals, and administers justice. Eddie's series is six books and four novellas in length, and there's more on the way.Andrew has recently discovered the delights of writing stand-alone psychological thrillers, with one under his belt (The End of Lies), and another under way.A proud Yorkshireman, he sets all of his novels there, using his home city of Leeds as another major, and complementary, character in each of the stories.As well as books, Andrew co-wrote a forensic crime drama for Yorkshire Television and was lucky enough to get a commission for the series - eleven hours of screen time - before the drama department unfortunately closed.You can find out more about him and his writing at www.andrewbarrett.co.uk
