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The Dentist

DS Cross, Book 1

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The Dentist

By: Tim Sullivan
Narrated by: John Heffernan
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Introducing your new crime thriller fix: Bristol detective DS George Cross, champion of the outsider, the voiceless and the dispossessed.

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 death of a man as a squabble among Bristol's homeless community, Detective Sergeant George Cross is not convinced.

Who was the unknown man whose weather-beaten body is discovered on Clifton Downs? Did the tragedy that led to a life on the streets also lead to his death?

As he delves into the dead man's past, Cross becomes convinced that to catch this killer, he needs to solve a cold case murder from years before. A murder that someone has got away with for 15 years....

©2021 Tim Sullivan (P)2021 Head of Zeus Crime Fiction Genre Fiction Medical Mystery Police Procedural Small Town & Rural Suspense Thriller & Suspense Detective Murder
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The first book I’d read in this series was The Monk …….hooked straight away ! So went to try the first in the series. .
Complex and thoroughly enjoyable . Following how the brain of DS Cross works gives these books another interesting dimension.
He handles the case with determination and doggedness . It’s intriguing right from the start , and doesn’t disappoint .
I’m just wanting to start on the next book right now !

SATISFYING READ

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To come up with a new detective series, one that's different in this crowded police procedurals genre is no mean feat, but Tim Sullivan has succeeded with a detective with Asperger's (and, a Bristol setting).
Have no personal experience of the autism but having watched, enjoyed the first two seasons of TV's Walter Present's foreign language series Astrid in Paris, where a young woman with the syndrome is superbly portrayed, helped me visualise brusque DS Cross. He's an interesting character, with his OCD tendencies, need for order, routine and his unique method of working gets results. Relationships being difficult for those with Asperger's, his work partner, DS Ottey, who as a black single mother, has faced her own fair share of discrimination in the police force, has learnt to d/w his quirks. She acts partly as a buffer, guiding hand between him and colleagues, suspects & victims alike.
This first book in the series, have now invested in the next two, starts with the murder of a homeless man, a former dentist, that to all but Cross looks straightforward. It's far from that, what follows is absorbing investigation, a Cold Case, that's linked to another event in the past.

A detective with Asperger's works!

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Great plot with a good build up. Although of a serious nature, there were many laugh out loud moments for me. It was also informative regarding the Asperger’s condition.

Very enjoyable and well narrated.

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I'm so glad i tried this book. Excellent all round . Guessing until the end . Great characters , i really look forward as to how their interactions with each others develop.Great story line. Bring on more

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I’ve listened to many books lately that haven’t grabbed my attention at all. I have over 300 in my library and was despairing of finding something to interest me enough to listen to the end, until I tried this from the Plus Catalogue. It is so good: story, narration, everything. All you require for entertainment from a book, with a different take from other books of this genre as regards the detective. One hundred percent recommend this.

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