The Cyclist cover art

The Cyclist

A DS Cross Thriller

 Preview
Get this deal Try Premium Plus free
Offer ends 31 July, 2025 23:59 BST.
Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
Premium Plus auto-renews for £8.99/mo after 3 months. Cancel monthly.
Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection - including bestsellers and new releases.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, celeb exclusives, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
£8.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.

The Cyclist

By: Tim Sullivan
Narrated by: John Heffernan
Get this deal Try Premium Plus free

£8.99/mo after 3 months. Offer ends 31 July, 2025 23:59 BST. Cancel monthly.

£8.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.

Buy Now for £13.99

Buy Now for £13.99

Confirm Purchase
Pay using card ending in
Switch payment method
By completing your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use and authorise Audible to charge your designated card or any other card on file. Please see our Privacy Notice, Cookies Notice and Interest-based Ads Notice.
Cancel

About this listen

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 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.

The demolition began at dawn. Walls knocked over. Twisted pipes uprooted. Window frames smashed. A dead body unearthed....

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: a young man, an amateur cyclist, a supply of performance-enhancing drugs. But what led this man to his death? Cross mounts an investigation that will uncover jealousy, ambition and a family tearing itself apart - an investigation that could cost him his career....

©2021 Tim Sullivan (P)2021 W F Howes Crime Crime Thrillers Fiction Mystery Police Procedural Suspense Thriller Thriller & Suspense

Listeners also enjoyed...

 The Dentist cover art
See Them Run cover art
Deadly Obsession cover art
There's Something I Have to Tell You cover art
The Turning of Our Bones cover art
The Body in the Marsh cover art
The Murder Wall cover art
A Litter of Bones: A Scottish Crime Thriller cover art
A Long Time Dead cover art
Detective Sebastian Clifford, Books 1-3 cover art
Bliss Uncovered cover art
The Viaduct Killings cover art
Death on Cromer Beach cover art
Breakneck Point cover art
A Murder on Wall Street cover art
The Sins of the Mother cover art
All stars
Most relevant  
I really like everything about this series. The characters, story line, and especially the way Asperger’s/Autistic traits are portrayed, showing both the positive and negative aspects of neurodivergence. I hope to see more development of the supporting characters as the series progresses.

Love it all

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
What a great read has everything and more, here’s to the next one, thank you

Brilliant as always

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Really good story line with believable characters. Interesting to view a crime through the eyes of a detective with high functioning autism. Made me smile a lot- and had lots of twists and turns to keep it interesting. Looking forward to the next one in the series.

Great story. Interesting characters

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Careful with George Cross Mysteries. You WILL get hooked and WON’T be able to put them down.
Tim Sullivan writes in a way that sounds so real. There are no artifices, he writes, in a way, as his Cross character does everything: the obvious, the right way. His depiction of Cross’ autism is brilliant. As an adopted Bristolian, I also very much enjoy the background notes to the stories.
The performance is also brilliant, by the way.

Genius

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
The characters are amazing so good, and a simple story line but beautifully written and told so pleased I found these books by chance a real surprise, and a joy to listen too.

Amazing books, so smart, purer brilliance.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
I really enjoyed this book, having purchased and downloaded it following the first in the series
The twists and turns of the plot were beautifully manage - right up until the very end
Very much looking forward to catching up with the entire team again

Most enjoyable - and so interesting !

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
I came across these stories in an Audible sale. Since I enjoy detective stories, I thought I'd take a chance. Set in Bristol, our eccentric Detective Cross, takes us on a clever journey to uncover the murderer. I thoroughly enjoyed it, and have another in the series already lined up. Shout out for the extremely good narrator too.

Great story, great narration

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Loved it! George is becoming one of my favourite detectives and im now fully invested in him.
One of the reviews left complains about excessive use of swearing. I didnt think there was much swearing at all, and when it was used, it was in keeping with the character.

I really love the narrator and his voice suits Cross. Im now off to buy book 3!

Keep them coming!

Brilliant!

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
This being the second novel about DS Cross I’m utterly hooked.the narration is perfect.
No spoilers but I love the pace of the story the intricate attention to detail that the George has due to his Aspergers syndrome.
if only this could be true and not fiction.
I hope there are police personnel who are just like him.
I think these novels would make a really good tv series. Come on Amazon!
and remember not everyone who is on the spectrum is like George.
It’s a spectrum after all.
Side note- my sons have Asperger’s and have some similar traits to Each other but ultimately are like chalk and cheese.
(now , saying that phrase would wind George up ! Wouldn’t it.)

Detective Sergeant George Cross blinkered rational and single minded determination gets results again

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Original and entertaining, I didn't want to miss a word of the story, and I was guessing until the end

Finally a new series I like

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
See more reviews