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Blackball

Walk In My Classroom

(Alex Cross 33)

Return of the Spider

The President’s Shadow

The Last Days of Marilyn Monroe

A Jane Smith Thriller

Never Say Die

Emma on Fire

A Word of Mouse Tail

The Great Mouse Escape

Private Dublin

Minerva Keen’s Detective Club: The Double Trouble Puzzle

The Imperfect Murder

2 Sisters Murder Investigations

(Women’s Murder Club 25)

25 Alive

Tiger, Tiger

(Michael Bennett 17)

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8 Months Left

Middle School: Too Uncool for School

The Texas Murders

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Holmes Is Missing

Raised By Wolves

(Alex Cross 1)

Along Came a Spider

(Alex Cross 2)

Kiss the Girls

(Alex Cross 3)

Jack and Jill

(Alex Cross 15)

Alex Cross's Trial

(Alex Cross 16)

I, Alex Cross

(Alex Cross 17)

Cross Fire

(Alex Cross 18)

Kill Alex Cross

(Alex Cross 19)

Merry Christmas, Alex Cross

(Alex Cross 20)

Alex Cross, Run

(Alex Cross 21)

Cross My Heart

(Alex Cross 22)

Hope to Die

(Alex Cross 23)

Cross Justice

(Alex Cross 24)

Cross the Line

(Alex Cross 25)

The People vs. Alex Cross

(Alex Cross 26)

Target: Alex Cross

(Alex Cross 27)

Criss Cross

(Alex Cross 28)

Deadly Cross

(Alex Cross 29)

Fear No Evil

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Triple Cross

(Alex Cross 31)

Alex Cross Must Die

Cross Country

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[Cross Country] opens with one of the most chilling murder scenes I've read in a long time ... High-octane stuff

It was absolutely fantastic ... Cross Country has an amazing sense of speed, there's a really brilliant tension in the plot ... You're just completely engrossed in it from start to finish ... The story is unrelentingly exciting

Heart-stopping, speed-charged, and electrifying, Cross Country is a stunning thriller from "the man who can't miss.

It's no mystery why James Patterson is the world's most popular thriller writer: his uncanny skill in creating living, breathing characters we truly feel for and seamless, lightning-fast plots. I do this for a living, and he still manages to keep me guessing from the first to last page ... Simply put: Nobody does it better.

Behind all the noise and the numbers, we shouldn't forget that no one gets this big without amazing natural storytelling talent - which is what Jim has, in spades. The Alex Cross series proves it

LEE CHILD, bestselling author of the Jack Reacher series

IAN RANKIN, bestselling author of the Inspector Rebus series

I wrote, "Along Came a Spider is the best thriller I've come across in many a year. It deserves to be this season's no. 1 bestseller and should instantly make James Patterson a household name." A household name, indeed.

Every once in a while a writer comes along and fundamentally changes the way people read. He or she is so bright, so innovative, so industrious that what they envision and create becomes the measure by which all others are judged. In 1993 one such writer - James Patterson - began to do just that ... James Patterson is the gold standard by which all others are judged.

STEVE BERRY, bestselling author of the Colton Malone series

[Alex Cross] has become one of the greatest fictional detectives of all time, a character for the ages.

Patterson boils a scene down to the single, telling detail, the element that defines a character or moves a plot along. It's what fires off the movie projector in the reader's mind.

Patterson knows where our deepest fears are buried... there's no stopping his imagination.

... opens with one of the most chilling murder scenes I've read in a long time ... High-octane stuff

I was completely swept along by it. It was absolutely fantastic: I romped through it. It is wonderfully-well and scarily described. There is a James Bond quality. It was inspired. Cross Country has an amazing sense of speed, there's a really brilliant tension in the plot. You really believe in Alex Cross. 
You're just completely engrossed in it from start to finish. Absolutely incredible. Taking [Cross] into Africa is a masterstroke. The story is unrelentingly exciting.

(Alex Cross 14)

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The fourteenth book in the bestselling Alex Cross series 
 
A killer’s trail leads Detective Alex Cross to Africa – and a whole new world of danger. 
 
Called in to investigate a massacre in Washington D.C., Alex Cross is shocked to discover an old friend among the victims. Furious and devastated, he sets out to get justice. 
 
The lethal D.C. underworld leads him to the Niger Delta, where the heroin and slave trades are rife, and to the terrifying, psychopathic perpetrator of the massacre: the Tiger. 
 
But nothing is what it seems, and as Cross travels deeper into this dangerous world of corruption and conspiracy, his own survival is on the line…

The latest in the bestselling Alex Cross series

JAMES PATTERSON is one of the best-known and biggest-selling writers of all time. Among his creations are some of the world's most popular series including Alex Cross, the Women's Murder Club, Michael Bennett and the Private novels. He has written many other number one bestsellers including collaborations with President Bill Clinton and Dolly Parton, stand-alone thrillers and non-fiction. James has donated millions in grants to independent bookshops and has been the most borrowed adult author in UK libraries for the past fourteen years in a row. He lives in Florida with his family.

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