Sneaky Peek: The Death of Jessica Ripley by Andrew Barrett (release date 21st June 2019)

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Blurb

Jessica Ripley didn’t kill her ex-husband. But everyone thinks she did. After serving twelve years for his murder, it’s time to get her own back on those who put her inside.

During those twelve years, Jessy’s son, Michael, has turned against her. Whatever mercy Jessy had for her intended victims, just blew away.

CSI Eddie Collins is having a hard time watching his father enjoying life. He’s also having it tough in the form of two new recruits to his office. One is off his tree on drugs and the other wants his job.

And then the murders begin.

Can Eddie trust the evidence, or is someone twisting it, desperate to get even? 

And who did kill Jessy’s ex?

Author biography – Andrew Barrett

Andrew Barrett has been a CSI since 1996, and one way or another, Andrew’s life has revolved around crime ever since.

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 completed the trilogy.

Today, Andrew still produces 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 five books and three novellas in length, and there’s still more to come.

Andrew has recently discovered the delights of writing stand-alones, with one under his belt another under way.

Andrew is a proud Yorkshireman and sets all of his novels there, using his home city of Leeds as another major, and complementary, character in each of the stories.

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

Sneaky Peek

The Death of Jessica Ripley.

Jessica Ripley escaped abuse once, only for the man behind it to come back and inflict upon her something much worse than she’d ever experienced before.

His death.

Twelve years later, they let Jessica out of prison after wrongly accusing her of killing him, and straight into the ‘care’ of a power-crazy parole officer and a cloud of bitterness she is unable to shake off.

That bitterness, and the influence of an old friend, conspires to set Jessica’s hatred free, and it isn’t long before she learns what it’s like to really murder someone. She’s becoming whole again, incrementally rebuilding herself by stealing the lives of those she blames for stealing hers.

Her son, now a teenager, is repulsed by her, and it’s losing him more than losing her freedom, that provides her motivation.

But things aren’t always how they appear; sometimes old friends aren’t friends at all. Sometimes, it’s just business.

It’s time for her take control of a life that was polluted by greed and duplicity. It’s time to take action.