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Author
Series
Alex Cross novels volume 15
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
The year is 1906, and America is segregated. Hatred and discrimination plague the streets, the classroom, and the courts. But in Washington D.C., Ben Corbett, a smart and courageous lawyer, makes it his mission to confront injustice at every turn. He represents those who nobody else dares defend, merely because of the color of their skin. When President Roosevelt, under whom Ben served in the Spanish-American war, asks Ben to investigate rumors of...
Author
Series
Alex Cross novels volume 24
Language
English
Description
After shots pierce the nighttime calm of Rock Creek Park, a man is dead: what looks at first like road rage might be something much more sinister. But Alex has only just begun asking questions when he's called across town to investigate a new murder, one that hits close to home: Washington's own chief of detectives, Alex's former boss, and beloved mentor of Alex's wife, Bree.
Author
Series
Alex Cross novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Homicide detective Alex Cross tracks down a serial killer/kidnapper who cannot be outsmarted even after he's captured.
Author
Series
Alex Cross novels volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Detective Alex Cross is called away from kids and his jazz piano when two murderers, operating on opposite sides of the country, strike at the same time, and one of them has abducted his niece, Naomi.
Author
Series
Alex Cross novels volume 22
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Detective Alex Cross is being stalked by a psychotic genius, forced to play the deadliest game of his career. Cross's family -- his loving wife Bree, the wise and lively Nana Mama, and his precious children -- have been ripped away. Terrified and desperate, Cross must give this mad man what he wants if he has any chance of saving the most important people in his life. The stakes have never been higher: What will Cross sacrifice to save the ones he...
Author
Series
Alex Cross novels volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
A series of murders leaves homicide detective Alex Cross looking for clues as to the killer's motives and next victim.
Author
Series
Alex Cross novels volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
A vicious killer who calls himself the Mastermind orchestrates a series of bank robberies notable for their precise demands, and for their explosive violence when the demands are not met exactly. Detective Alex Cross's investigation gets under the Mastermind's skin, and he makes it his personal goal to take revenge on Cross and his entire team.
Author
Series
Alex Cross novels volume 21
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Detective Alex Cross is a family man at heart -- nothing matters more to him than his children, his grandmother, and his wife Bree. His love of his family is his anchor, and gives him the strength to confront evil in his work. One man knows this deeply, and uses Alex's strength as a weapon against him in the most unsettling and unexpected novel of James Patterson's career. When the ones Cross loves are in danger, he will do anything to protect them....
Author
Series
Alex Cross novels volume 14
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
When the home of Alex Cross's oldest friend, Ellie Cox, is turned into the worst murder scene Alex has ever seen, the destruction leads him to believe that he's chasing a horrible new breed of killer. As Alex and his girlfriend, Brianna Stone, become entangled in the deadly Nigerian underworld of Washington D.C., what they discover is shocking: a stunningly organized gang of lethal teenagers headed by a powerful, diabolical man--the African warlord...
Author
Series
Alex Cross novels volume 12
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Alex Cross has left the FBI and set up practice as a psychologist. A case involving a serial rapist in Georgetown triggers a connection to his wife's murder, which occurred many years ago in a drive-by shooting.
Author
Series
Alex Cross novels volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
A series of killings in the forgotten, crime-infested ghettos of southeast D.C. has sent Alex Cross and his partner John Sampson in search of the "Jane Doe" killer.
Author
Series
Alex Cross novels volume 16
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Alex Cross's niece is found brutally murdered. Overcome with grief, Alex vows to take down her killer before he strikes again. But shortly after he begins the investigation, Alex discovers that his niece had gotten mixed up with some very important, very dangerous people. And she's not the only one who has disappeared. The hunt for the murderer leads Alex and his girlfriend, Detective Brianna Stone, to Washington's most infamous club--a place where...
Author
Series
Alex Cross novels volume 26
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
A leader has fallen, and the procession route from Capitol Hill to the White House is lined with hundreds of thousands of mourners. None feel the loss of a President more keenly than Alex Cross, who has devoted his life to the public good. A sniper's bullet strikes a target in the heart of DC. Alex Cross's wife, Bree Stone, newly elevated chief of DC detectives, faces an ultimatum: solve the case, or lose the position for which she's worked her entire...
Author
Series
Alex Cross novels volume 23
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Series
Alex Cross novels volume 19
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
It's Christmas Eve and Detective Alex Cross has been called out to catch someone who's robbing his church's poor box. That mission behind him, Alex returns home to celebrate with Bree, Nana, and his children. The tree decorating is barely underway before his phone rings again -- a horrific hostage situation is quickly spiraling out of control. Away from his own family on the most precious of days, Alex calls upon every ounce of his training, creativity,...
Author
Series
Alex Cross novels volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
When two murders in San Francisco recall a case in Washington, D.C., that Alex Cross has yet to solve, the wily detective is up and running and he runs straight into a bizarre group of role players who think that they really are vampires.
17) Triple Cross
Author
Series
Alex Cross novels volume 30
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Detective Alex Cross hunts down a serial killer who targets entire families-and who will next be coming for the Crosses. A precise killer, he always moves under the cover of darkness, flawlessly triggering no alarms, leaving no physical evidence. Cross and Sampson aren't the only ones investigating. Also in on this most intriguing case is the world's bestselling true-crime author, who sees patterns everyone else misses. The writer, Thomas Tull, calls...
Author
Series
Alex Cross novels volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Alex Cross' nemesis Gary Soneji is back and out for revenge. But first Gary wants to play. The lives of thousands of innocent commuters hang in the balance.
Author
Series
Alex Cross novels volume 9
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
At the outset of his career with the FBI, Alex Cross is instructed to track down a band of kidnappers who are snatching people and possibly selling them into slavery, a case that is complicated by a terrible threat to Cross's own family.
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Series
Language
English
Description
FBI agent Alex Cross is on vacation with his family at Disneyland when he gets a call from the Director. A well-known actress was shot outside her home in Beverly Hills. Shortly afterward, an editor for the Los Angeles Times receives an e-mail describing the murder in vivid detail. Alex quickly learns that this is not an isolated incident. The killer, known as Mary Smith, has done this before and plans to kill again. Right from the beginning, this...
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