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A. J. Cross

    The Loose End
    Dark Truths
    A Dark, Divided Self
    Cold, Cold Heart
    Devil in the Detail
    Reflections of Deviance
    • 2024

      The Loose End

      • 240 pages
      • 9 hours of reading

      The story follows Professor Teigan Craft, a neurodiverse forensic psychologist, as she investigates the mysterious death of Emma Matheson, whose mummified remains are discovered in Birmingham. Teigan partners with DCI Steve Thompson, but her unconventional methods clash with his skepticism. As they delve into cold cases of young women connected to Emma, Teigan's insights suggest a serial killer may be at large. The narrative explores themes of collaboration and the challenges of understanding criminal minds while racing against time to prevent further tragedy.

      The Loose End
    • 2023

      Marion Cane swapped a successful career in the city for a quiet life in a wealthy village near Birmingham. So why was she found dead in her new home just months later? Marion's death was thought to be due to natural causes, but an anonymous note draws DCI Watts, PC Chloe Judd and criminologist Will Traynor into a complex and disturbing case.

      Reflections of Deviance
    • 2021

      The badly decomposed remains of a young woman are discovered just outside Birmingham, identified as a Manchester University student who disappeared three years earlier. Why would the killer transport the victim on an eighty- mile journey? Criminologist Will Traynor believes that finding the answer to that question is the key to cracking the case.

      A Dark, Divided Self
    • 2021

      A man and a woman are found in a car in a rundown part of the city, both critically injured. When nothing about the case seems to add up, the police call on the help of criminologist Dr Will Traynor. Traynor knows that it's the small, easily missed details that will crack the case, but not even he could suspect just where those details will lead .

      Devil in the Detail
    • 2019

      Cold, Cold Heart

      • 256 pages
      • 9 hours of reading
      3.7(85)Add rating

      For ten years, David Lockman has been serving a life sentence for murder. Now an appeal judge has decreed the evidence unsatisfactory and the original verdict unsafe. Tasked with re-examining the case, forensic psychologist Kate Hanson and her team unearth serious flaws in the original investigation. But if Lockman isn't the killer, who is?

      Cold, Cold Heart
    • 2019

      Introducing criminologist Will Traynor in the first of a gripping new forensic mystery series from an expert in the field

      Dark Truths
    • 2018

      When a body of a young man is discovered locked inside a church crypt, his throat torn out, Kate Hanson and her cold case team are baffled as to motive. The evidence reveals careful planning but also loss of control. It makes no sense. Then Kate discovers that another young man is missing - and the case takes a disturbing twist.

      Something Evil Comes
    • 1980