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Introducing your new crime thriller Bristol detective DS George Cross, champion of the outsider, the voiceless and the dispossessed.Bristol detective DS George Cross investigates the suspicious death of a homeless man, and discovers a link to a cold case murder from years before. DS George Cross can be rude, difficult, and awkward with people. But his unfailing logic and dogged pursuit of the truth means his conviction rate is the best on the force. So when his police colleagues dismiss the…

Every generation has its iconic detective - Holmes, Poirot and Morse - but Cross is emerging as the one for now. Treasure him.' DAILY MAIL'George Cross is becoming one of my favourite detectives.' ELLY GRIFFITHSThe victim's worst enemy was himself.When an elderly man is found dead in his home, the angle of his neck says he fell down the stairs. The stab wound on his body tells a different story.In the weeks before his murder, Alistair Moreton changed. A recluse by nature, neighbours…

SOMEONE'S ABOUT TO TURN THEIR LAST PAGE...'One of the most iconic British fictional detectives of the 21st century.' DAILY MAIL'These are must-read detective novels.' MARK BILLINGHAM'One of my favourite detectives.' ELLY GRIFFITHSBeware a well-read murderer...A bookseller is found dead in his shop on a quiet square in Bristol, surrounded by rare books, first editions and a shocking amount of blood.DS George Cross, usually the first to spot holes in a suspect's story, is…

'George Cross is becoming one of my favourite detectives.' ELLY GRIFFITHSA victim with no enemies. A murder with no motive.When the body of a monk is found savagely beaten in woodland near Bristol, DS George Cross discovers that nothing is known about the man's past.How can he unpick a crime when he doesn't know anything about the victim? And why would someone want to harm a monk?His past reveals that he had no enemies, although George learns he was exceedingly wealthy, that he sacrificed…

No fingerprints. No weapon. No witnesses.For days, George Cross notices the same woman sitting patiently in the reception of the Bristol Crime Unit. Eventually, he asks her why.She wants to talk about her daughter's death, officially ruled a suicide after a long history of drug abuse. But the mother insists she was rebuilding her life and had been clean for years. She knows this wasn't suicide – someone did this to her daughter.George doesn't operate on hunches or gut feelings, he simply…

When a weather-beaten body is found on Clifton Downs, the police are quick to dismiss it as a quarrel among the unhoused community.DS George Cross knows how it feels to be overlooked. Unwilling to do the same to others, he sets out to find out what really happened to the dead man.As George learns about a life that slowly unravelled, his investigation leads him to a decades-old murder. The question is how are the two deaths linked – and who killed each victim?If anyone can find the answers, it's…