Title: Cross Justice
Author: James Patterson
Series: Alex Cross, #23
Published: November 2015, Little, Brown & Company
Format: Hardcover, 420 pages
Source: Personal copy
Summary:
The toughest cases hit closest to home.
Alex
Cross left his hometown, and some awful family tragedies, for a better
life with Nana Mama in Washington, DC. He hasn’t looked back.
Now
his cousin Stefan has been accused of a horrible, unthinkable murder,
and Cross drives south with Bree, Nana Mama, Jannie, and Ali to
Starksville, North Carolina, for the first time in thirty-five years.
Back home, he discovers a once proud community down on its luck, and
local residents who don’t welcome him with open arms. As Cross steps
into his family home, the horrors of his childhood flood back–and he
learns that they’re not really over. He brings all his skill to finding
out the truth about his cousin’s case. But truth is hard to come by in a
town where no one feels safe to speak.
Chasing his ghosts takes
Cross all the way down to the sugarcane fields of Florida, where he gets
pulled into a case that has local cops needing his kind of expertise: a
string of socialite murders with ever more grisly settings. He’s
chasing too many loose ends–a brutal killer, the truth about his own
past, and justice for his cousin–and any one of the answers might be
fatal.
In Cross Justice, Alex Cross confronts the
deadliest–and most personal–case of his career. It’s a propulsive,
edge-of-your-seat thrill ride that proves you can go home again–but it
just might kill you.
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My thoughts: As I mentioned in my review of the previous book in this series, some books are going to be hits and some are going to be misses and unfortunately this one for me was a miss. I just couldn’t get into it like I usually do in with the books in this series…I felt there were too many people involved and it just didn’t have the adrenaline-filled twists and turns that I’ve come to expect from this series. I guess after the high I got from the previous book I felt a little let down with this one…and then that ending – not that it was another cliff-hanger but that reveal – are you kidding me? I feel James Patterson needed to give us something big and that was all he had. I’ll be curious to see where this leads, but I’m not too happy with it at all. In light of that development, though, the whole story does make sense.
Oh well, you win some, you lose some and this one is definitely in the loss column for me. But I am not giving up on this series with just one loss…I’m in it for the long haul!
Books in this series:
- Along Came a Spider 16. Cross Country
- Kiss the Girls 17. Cross Fire
- Jack and Jill 18. Kill Alex Cross
- Cat and Mouse 19. Merry Christmas, Alex Cross
- Pop Goes the Weasel 20. Alex Cross, Run
- Roses are Red 21. Cross My Heart
- Violets are Blue 22. Hope to Die
- Four Blind Mice 23. Cross Justice
- The Big Bad Wolf 24. Cross the Line
- London Bridges 24.4 Cross Kill
- Mary Mary 24.5 Detective Cross
- Cross 25. The People vs. Alex Cross
- Double Cross 26. Target: Alex Cross
- I, Alex Cross 27. Criss Cross
- Alex Cross’s Trial
