TY - BOOK AU - Patterson, James, TI - Criss cross T2 - Alex Cross SN - 9781780899459 U1 - 813.6 23 PY - 2019///. CY - London, England : PB - Century, KW - Cross, Alex KW - African American detectives KW - Fiction KW - Police KW - Washington (D.C.) KW - Serial murder investigation KW - Family secrets KW - Thrillers (Fiction) KW - fast KW - Detective and mystery fiction KW - lcgft N1 - Includes and excerpt from Blindside, by James Patterson and James O. Born N2 - "Could a ghost from his past take everything away from Alex Cross? Mere hours after witnessing the execution of a killer he helped put behind bars, Alex Cross is called to the scene of a copycat murder. A note signed 'M' rests on the corpse- 'You messed up big time, Dr. Cross.' Was an innocent man just put to death? As the executed convict's family launch a vicious campaign against Cross, his abilities as a detective are called into question. The enigmatic 'M' lures Cross out of Washington, DC to the sites of multiple homicides, all marked with distressingly familiar details that conjure up decades-old cases and Cross family secrets. Details that make it clear M is after a prize so dear that - were the killer to attain it - Cross's life would be destroyed."--Publisher description ER -