Tim Sullivan

Ever since Gil Ribeiro's detective Leander Lost, we have known that people with Asperger's have special abilities. Detective Sergeant George Cross, the hero of British detective Tim Sullivan's crime novels, is one such person.

Brilliantly combining logic, determination and often pedantry, he is superior to most of his colleagues and is usually the last hope for relatives of murder victims to get answers to pressing questions.

So when a body is dug out of the ground by a digger on a demolition site in Bristol, it's up to Cross to find out the truth.Tan lines on the body and strange scars on the forearms reveal the identity of the dead man: a male amateur racing cyclist who used doping to improve his performance. In “The Criminalist - The Logic of Death”, Cross gets caught up in a dark family history...

Reading: Stephan Benson
Moderation: Birgit Hasselbusch