Review: Detective Cross - Book #24.5 Alex Cross Series - James Patterson - May 2017 Carrying on from the Bookshots Cross Kill is Detective Cross, in this book, we read that Alex Cross is currently on a 5-week suspension due to the upcoming trial of the murders of the "other Garys". They are trying to say that it was premeditated murder which of course it wasn't, he was set up. In Detective Cross, we read that Alex is taking a seat back from Crime and putting his Doctor's work to use by seeing a few patients in his home. Former and current law enforcement that have been sent to him for psych evaluations. One of them is a former military agent, Kate, who will help Detective Cross to solve a crime of who is bombing the city as they are using IEDs and old C4 which indicates former military. In this book, we also see more of Bree Stone aka Mrs. Cross as she is the one receiving the phone calls just before the bombs go off and communicating throughout the book with the bom...

Review: Fear No Evil - Book #29 Alex Cross - James Patterson - November 2021 A series I have always loved as I have read this since the beginning of time is the Alex Cross Series. I noticed when I read Book #31 that somehow I had missed Books #29 and #30 which I am now rectifying. Fear No Evil takes us on two separate adventures, we have Bree Stone who is Alex's wife taking a job with the Bluestone Group - a private firm and she is headed to Paris to help bring down a billionaire who is also someone who has been abusing his power as a boss and a male and then back in the US we have Alex and John who are preparing for their camping trip but that ends up postponed as someone is killing agents and branding them as traitors of the US. Alex and John also end up getting messages again from "M" - and also they discover that someone is pretending to be "M" and making Alex and John targets as they find themselves somehow stuck in the middle of the traitors and the takin...

    Review: Cross Down - Book #31 Alex Cross Series - James Patterson and Brendan Dubois -June 2023 As a long-time fan of the Alex Cross series, I was surprised to see a collaboration with this one as it has normally always been a James Patterson standalone series. However, as I got reading it - I understood the collaboration as though this is Book #31 in the Alex Cross series, it is more a book focused on John Sampson which was pretty neat for a change as he has always been a side character - an extension of Alex Cross and his family. The book also featured Ned Mahoney from the FBI who we have also seen in other Alex Cross books. Cross Down starts with a group of tops in the law field getting together with the President as a series of random terrorist attacks are wreaking havoc on the US. Alex of course knows that they aren't random but the day he goes to share, he and John find themselves amid gunfire and Alex is shot - hence the title "Cross Down". Alex ends up in I...