CROSS By James Patterson

Published : 2006
Pages : 436
Overall Mark : 7.5/10

When a series of sexual attacks take place throughout Washington, Alex Cross finds himself having to come out of retirement from the FBI to help investigate the terrible crimes. He is asked to use his skills as a psychologist to try to get any of the victims to describe their attacker, and to explain why all the victims are so afraid to talk to the police about the assaults. Alex soon finds that there are mob connections to the attacks and a possible link to the unsolved murder of his own wife many years before…

I do enjoy James Patterson’s books – the chapters are so short they make the perfect light-read on the way to and from work. Once again Patterson has managed to keep me engrossed until the final page, and this time around he’s really gone all out with the violence, something he usually would keep to a psychological level. Probably not as good as some of his previous offerings, such as Kiss The Girls, but far better than The Big Bad Wolf.