01972cam a2200397 i 4500 407598839 TxAuBib 20191220120000.0 190905s2019||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2018958420 9780316526883 0316526886 (OCoLC)1117450843 TxAuBib rda Patterson, James. Criss cross. #25 : Alex Cross Series / James Patterson. First edition. New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2019. 387 pages ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Alex Cross ; 29 "In a Virginia penitentiary, Alex Cross and his partner, John Sampson, witness the execution of a killer they helped convict. Hours later, they are called to the scene of a copycat crime. A note signed 'M' rests on the corpse. 'You messed up big time, Dr. Cross.' Was an innocent man just put to death? Alex soon realizes he may have much to answer for, as 'M' lures the detective out of the capital to the sites of multiple homicides, all marked with distressingly familiar details--details that conjure up decades-old cases. Details that conjure up Cross family secrets. Details that make clear that M is after a prize so dear that--were the killer to attain it--Alex's heart would no longer have reason to beat." -- Book jacket. 20191220. Cross, Alex (Fictitious character) Fiction. African American detectives Fiction. Murder Investigation Fiction. Serial murderers Fiction. Judicial error Fiction. Family secrets Fiction. Washington (D.C) Fiction. Detective and mystery fiction. Thrillers (Fiction.) Alex Cross ; 29.