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An eighty-year-old man is found murdered in his home. His age and standing in the community makes finding his killer difficult–why would anyone harm an elderly man? What threat could he possibly be to anyone? With no apparent motive, DS George Cross canvases the community for potential suspects but the man was known as generous, charitable, community-minded. Each interview about who the man is muddies the picture further. So Cross decides to look for who he was–revealing a past that is far less honourable than his present . . .

At first glance, the murder of Peggy Frampton looks like a burglary gone wrong. But DS George Cross, with his meticulous methods, thinks otherwise. The victim, a former mayor of Bristol, is now an online influencer whose forthright opinions attract the kind of attention that most people would like to avoid. There's no shortage of suspects. Cross's investigation will lead him from Peggy's unfaithful husband to her gambling-addicted son, to a scorned former lover with a grudge. But she also has political enemies in her past.

…until you looked beneath the surface, and the ugly, hidden realities appeared. How is it possible for two utterly broken people to survive a marriage and build a family while fraught with deep wounds from the past and often crippling stresses from the present? Especially when hidden agendas are at work, and power and control patterns run the show? The Sullivans were seen as “the perfect family” by most people in their community and church family. Ann was known as a stellar mom, and Tim, a successful farmer, landowner, and premier home builder. Beneath the surface lay serious ...

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.

DS George Cross has always wondered why his mother left him when he was a child. Now she is back in his life, he suddenly has answers. But this unexpected reunion is not anything he's used to dealing with. When a disturbing case lands on his desk, he is almost thankful for the return to normality. The body of a monk is found savagely beaten to death in a woodland near Bristol. Nothing is known about Brother Dominic's past, which makes investigating difficult. How can Cross unpick a crime when they don't know anything about the victim? And why would someone want to harm a monk?

DS George Cross can be rude, difficult, and awkward with people. But his unfailing logic and relentless pursuit of justice means his conviction rate is the best on the force. When a ravaged body is found in a local demolition site, it is up to Cross to piece together the truth from whatever fragments he can find. DS Cross has little to go on, but from the faint tan lines on the body and strange scars on his forearms, an identity gradually emerges. Cross mounts an investigation that will uncover jealousy, ambition and a family tearing itself apart.

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. An outsider himself, having been diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder, DS Cross is especially drawn to cases concerning the voiceless and the dispossessed. Now, Cross is untangling the truth about a young woman who died three days ago.

A combat veteran leads a ragtag group of survivors in an all-out war against invading aliens! The world's cities have been destroyed by a ghastly holocaust from space. The few remaining souls eke out an existence in the ruins, ransacking skyscrapers for food and living in the city's sewers like vermin.

When the body of a bookseller is discovered, collapsed in a pool of blood in his Bristolian bookshop, it is immediately clear that he has been murdered. What is unclear is how someone could have met such a violent end in this quiet, peaceful place. DS Cross is adept at dismissing red-herrings but a worrying development in his personal life has left him hopelessly distracted, leaving his usual means of deciphering evidence challenged.

Pitching is about persuasion: radiating positivity, controlling the situation, winning an audience's trust, creating "fierce agreement", and getting them to want to give you what you're asking for. Written not just for a business audience, You Get What You Pitch For will approach the pitch as what it really is: a methodology for building productive, positive, mutually beneficial person-to-person interactions.

Soccer is the most popular game in the world, but does it truly belong in the heart of American sports culture? The answer is a resounding yes—and the 150-year journey of elite men’s soccer in the US is filled with drama, surprises, reversals, and triumphs that rival any world-class match.

Et gennemrodet værelse. En død politiker. Et indbrud, der endte galt – eller et iscenesat mord? Kriminalassistent George Cross elsker puslespil – han er god til at løse dem – og han spotter med det samme et, da han begynder at efterforske den tidligere borgmester Peggy Framptons død. For de fleste ligner det et indbrud, der gik frygteligt galt, men George kan se det, andre ikke kan – at det var mord. Efter hendes politiske karriere sluttede, blev Peggy en kontroversiel blogger, hvis ligefremme meninger tiltrak en hær af online trolls.

Hallucination... or time travel? One man alone against the cosmos, creating his own reality! Exiled on Mars! Johnsmith Biberkopf escapes from a penal colony on the Red Planet and learns that his hallucinations are real - space and time can be manipulated. Kidnapped by Vikings who have sailed through the continua since ancient times, Johnsmith embarks on an epic adventure, an infinite journey through the multiverse. Facing alien menaces, he learns the terrifying truth about the power of illusion.

Hvordan kan han bevise at det var mord? Ingen fingeraftryk. Intet våben. Ingen vidner. Kan kriminalassistent Cross bevise at det var mord? Kriminalassistent George Cross stoler ikke på gætterier, og han har ikke tid til falske formodninger. Han er en betjent som arbejder ud fra de beviser der er for næsen af ham, ikke 'intuitioner' eller 'mavefornemmelser'. Han ved ikke hvad de er. Da en ung kvinde bliver fundet død, er Bristols Efterforskningsenhed hurtig til at erklære at der er tale om et selvmord da kvinden havde en fortid med stofmisbrug.

David North was convicted of murdering his fiancée. To the rest of the courtroom, it was an open-and-shut case. But as DS George Cross sees the man smile as he's led away from sentencing, he becomes certain something crucial had been missed. After all, two partners dead within six years of each other couldn't be a coincidence. What really happened to North's ex-wife? As Cross takes on this new cold case, he encounters an insurmountable obstacle: the body he's looking into has been cremated.

DS George Cross's father, Raymond, always takes an annual holiday in a local care home. He enjoys the company it brings him. He busies himself repairing the residents' wheelchairs and has become their self-appointed tech guru. But this time it's different. A new arrival causes a stir – he's convinced one of the older residents, suffering with dementia, is the man who killed his father decades before. The staff say it has to be a mistake, but after Cross investigates, he discovers that a similar murder really did take place.

When DS George Cross is informed that his mother will be joining him and his father for Christmas, he is sent into a tailspin. Soon after, one cold winter morning, Cross goes to inspect a dead body found tangled in thick hedgerow on the outskirts of private farmland. It appears the young man was trying to scramble through the hedge when he died, that he was running away from someone. With frost on the ground obscuring evidence and secretive neighbours not giving anything away, finding the killer won't be easy.

Hvorfor skulle denne mand dø? For at løse et mord må man først kende offeret... Kriminalassistent George Cross er en mand med unikke og uovertrufne talenter. Han bruger en kombination af logik, beslutsomhed og ofte pedanteri til at skaffe det, som andre ikke har kunnet: svar. Svar til familier der for længst har mistet håbet. Så da et lig bliver fundet på en lokal nedrivningsplads, er det op til Cross at stykke sandheden sammen ved hjælp af de brudstykker, han kan finde.

Dive into 'The Sullivan Files,' a journey through time led by Benjamin Sullivan, a 19th-century archaeologist with a time-bending device. Experience history, mystery, and magic in our world through his encrypted messages, as he navigates epochs and encounters influential figures. Join us weekly for a thrilling adventure where past, present, and future intertwine.

Keine Fingerabdrücke. Keine Waffe. Keine Zeugen. Kann DS Cross beweisen, dass es Mord war? Als eine junge Frau nach einer Überdosis tot aufgefunden wird, schließt die Bristol Crime Unit schnell auf Suizid. Es war Mord, meint hingegen die Mutter der Toten. Ihre ehemals drogensüchtige Tochter sei seit Jahren clean gewesen. Keiner glaubt ihr – außer DS Cross. Als Autist und Außenseiter fühlt er sich zu Fällen hingezogen, in denen er für Stimmlose eintreten kann. Dank seiner brillanten Art zu ermitteln kann er auch bald einen Kreis verdächtiger Personen ausmachen.