Title: Deadly Cross
Author: James Patterson
Series: Alex Cross, #28
Published: November 2020, Little, Brown & Company
Format: Hardcover, 416 pages
Source: Personal copy
Summary:
A scandalous double homicide in the nation’s capital opens the psychological case files on . . . Detective Alex Cross.
Until Kay Willingham’s shocking murder inside a luxury limousine,
the Georgetown socialite, philanthropist, and ex-wife of the sitting
vice-president led a public life. Yet few — including her onetime
psychologist — had any inkling of Kay’s troubled past in the Deep
South.
Murdered alongside her is Randall Christopher, a respected
educator whose political ambitions may have endangered both their lives.
While John Sampson of DC Metro Police tracks Randall’s final movements,
Alex Cross and FBI Special Agent Ned Mahoney travel to Alabama to
investigate Kay’s early years.
They discover that although Kay had
many enemies, all of them needed her alive. Alex is left without a
viable suspect, and facing a desperate choice between breaking a trust
and losing his way — as a detective, and as the protector of his
family.
***Short & Sweet Reviews are
short, quick reviews. These will mainly be used for series books where I
have already done full reviews on some of the earlier books or for
books that I feel will suffice with a quick review. These will not be
used for review requests or blog tours.
My thoughts: James Patterson’s Alex Cross series will always remain one of my favorites of all his series and I think this one is more in line of his earlier books. It’s gritty and very heavily reliant on the police procedural side of things, more so than the previous books have been.
Of course, there are still the usual trademarks that we have come to love – the
breakneck speed, the short chapters that lead to that “just one more
chapter” mentality, and a twisting, crazy plot that keeps you on your
toes. We still see Alex’s family, who at this point in the series, at 28 books, have almost become family to us!
This book keeps you engaged and on the edge of your seat all the way until the very end and I love that about these books. They are fast reads that I know I will enjoy and can pick up and breeze through. I’m not sure what’s next for Alex and the gang, but I know I am here for the long haul, however long that is!
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 28. Deadly Cross
