Dr Kate Hanson and the Unsolved Crime Unit are baffled as to motive when the body of a young man is discovered. When a body is discovered locked inside a church crypt, its throat torn out, the victim's identity is quickly established as 20-year-old Matthew Flynn, son of one of the city's leading entrepreneurs, who disappeared a year earlier.For forensic psychologist Kate Hanson, the evidence reveals careful planning but also loss of control. It makes no sense. Nor can she and her team agree as to motive. Is it drugs? Money? Sex? The only thing that's clear is that Matthew Flynn had been keeping secrets from his family and friends.Then Kate discovers that another young man is missing. And the case takes a disturbing new twist ...
Cross A.J. Book order





- 2018
- 2018
Cold, Cold Heart
- 256 pages
- 9 hours of reading
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?
- 2017
A Little Death
- 384 pages
- 14 hours of reading
Dr Kate Hanson and the Unsolved Crime Unit face the year-old murder of a female student. But with little forensic evidence and unreliable witnesses, Kate realizes that she must find the killer's motive. She looks beyond what she has been told by those who knew the victim and into the psyche of a murderer, who Kate suspects is ready to kill again.
- 2014
For fans of Kathy Reichs and Patricia Cornwell, a gripping new thriller from British forensic psychologist A.J. Cross.
- 2013
Gone in Seconds
- 400 pages
- 14 hours of reading
A brilliant debut crime thriller written by a British forensic psychologist.