Why read Along Came a Spider?

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The legendary thriller that launched the Alex Cross phenomenon

Adapted into a major Hollywood movie starring Morgan Freeman
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Two children have been kidnapped from an elite private school in Washington DC, and Detective Alex Cross is charged with finding them.

The kidnapper's identity is quickly determined as one of…

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2 authors picked Along Came a Spider as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Stephen B. King

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James Patterson is a wonderful writer, and this book introduces Alex Cross, a police detective who is a widower with two small children.

They live with the elderly woman who raised him, and she passes on the values she taught Alex to his children. Alex is a good person. Flawed like the rest of us, but he is trying to make a difference in the world. He tries to capture a man responsible for heinous crimes against two abducted children from a prestigious school. Is the perpetrator unhinged, or when he is caught, is he pretending to be unhinged?

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From Stephen's 3 favorite reads in 2023.

J.J. McGraw

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I was hooked by James Patterson’s first book of the Alex Cross series by James Patterson. A predator that enjoys playing mind games with Detective Cross, and a kidnapping that sends one of those thoughts through your mind, “No, they didn’t do that, did they?” One of the things I enjoyed are the short chapters. It’s filled with psychological suspense, a real thriller that I didn’t want to put down. This is something that I crave in books. For it to grab my attention, hold it, and surprise me at the end. And Patterson delivers.

From J.J.'s list on thrillers and mysteries that don’t let go.