Cross Justice (Alex Cross Series #21)

by James Patterson

Overview

For Alex Cross, the toughest cases hit close to home-and in this deadly thrill ride, he's trying to solve the most personal mystery of his life.


When his cousin is accused of a heinous crime, Alex Cross returns to his North Carolina hometown for the first time in over three decades. As he tries to prove his cousin's innocence in a town where everyone seems to be on the take, Cross unearths a family secret that forces him to question everything he's ever known.


Chasing a ghost he believed was long dead, Cross gets pulled into a case that has local cops scratching their heads and needing his help: a grisly string of socialite murders. Now he's hot on the trail of both a brutal killer, and the truth about his own past-and the answers he finds might be fatal.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780316407137
Publisher:	Little, Brown and Company
Publication date:	11/23/2015
Series:	Alex Cross Series
Edition description:	Large Print
Pages:	528
Sales rank:	814,910
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.40(h) x 1.70(d)

About the Author

James Patterson is the most popular storyteller of our time. He is the creator of unforgettable characters and series, including Alex Cross, the Women’s Murder Club, Jane Effing Smith, and Maximum Ride, and of breathtaking true stories about the Kennedys, John Lennon, and Princess Diana, as well as our military heroes, police officers, and ER nurses. He has coauthored #1 bestselling novels with Bill Clinton and Dolly Parton, told the story of his own life in James Patterson by James Patterson, and received an Edgar Award, ten Emmy Awards, the Literarian Award from the National Book Foundation, and the National Humanities Medal.

Ruben Santiago-Hudson
is an award-winning actor, writer, producer, and audiobook narrator. He is best known for his role as Doc in the Oscar-nominated film American Gangster. He won Broadway’s 1996 Tony Award as Best Actor in a featured role for Seven Guitars.
His role in the television series Lackawanna
Blues earned him a Christopher Award, the Humanitas Prize, the Black Reel
Award, and the Black Movie Award. For his audio narrations, he shared in a 2008
Audie Award nomination for a multicast reading of The Ultimate David Sedaris Box Set. He earned AudioFile Earphones
Awards for his reading of The Land by
Mildred D. Taylor and Best-Loved Poems of
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis edited by Caroline Kennedy.

Jefferson Mays, an Earphones Awards-winning narrator, is also an award-winning theater and film actor. In 2004 he won a Tony Award, a Drama Desk Award, an Obie Award, and a Theatre World Award for his solo Broadway performance in I Am My Own Wife, a Pulitzer Prize–winning play by Doug Wright. He holds a BA from Yale College and an MFA from University of California–San Diego.

Hometown:

Palm Beach, Florida

Date of Birth:

March 22, 1947

Place of Birth:

Newburgh, New York

Education:

B.A., Manhattan College, 1969; M.A., Vanderbilt University, 1971

Website:

http://www.jamespatterson.com

Interviews

Here's a little exclusive something about our friend Alex Cross. In his next book, you're going to learn a lot more about Alex's family history. That's because his cousin, Stefan, is accused of murder. So Alex heads back to his hometown of Starksville, NC (pop. 21,010) to help with the case. There, we'll get to meet all sorts of characters from Alex's past -- including a real firecracker named Aunt Hattie. If you're a Nana Mama fan like I am, I think you're really going to enjoy meeting Hattie. Let's just say loyalty runs deep—and fierce—in the Crosses' blood.

Cross Justice comes out Nov. 23. And, they tell me, you can pre-order it now.

Editorial Reviews

Narrator Ruben Santiago Hudson infuses Alex with his own blend of passion and vigor to make this presentation his own. As Alex’s search for the real killer sends him deep into his own family’s secrets, Hudson’s voice peels back layers of raw and heartrending emotion. Jefferson Mays provides counterpoint to Hudson’s performance with his skillful creation of the depraved killer. Together, the two narrators anchor the plot with enduring performances and bring Alex home at last.”

AudioFile

Patterson’s Alex Cross is back again in another crazy, suspenseful mystery that keeps readers on the edge of their seats. Patterson’s writing style never disappoints, with his characters still seeming fresh even more than twenty novels in. No story is the same, and this book is as worthy a read as all the ones before it.”

RT Book Reviews (4 stars)

06/15/2015
Yep, Alex Cross is back—in his North Carolina hometown, where he's returned after 30-plus years to defend a cousin accused of a terrible crime. Soon, Alex is reeling from the discovery of a family secret, and if that doesn't kill him, his hunt for the brutal murderer of several local socialites might. With an 800,000-copy first printing.

Library Journal

James Patterson fine-tunes his backstory in this latest Alex Cross audiobook. He sends Alex and his family to his hometown in North Carolina, where trouble is brewing for his cousin, who is accused of a murder he didn’t commit. Narrator Ruben Santiago Hudson infuses Alex with his own blend of passion and vigor to make this presentation his own. As Alex’s search for the real killer sends him deep into his own family’s secrets, Hudson’s voice peels back layers of raw and heartrending emotion. Jefferson Mays provides counterpoint to Hudson’s performance with his skillful creation of the depraved killer. Together, the two narrators anchor the plot with enduring performances and bring Alex home at last. E.E.S. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award © AudioFile 2015, Portland, Maine

OCTOBER 2015 - AudioFile