Alex Cross novels
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IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 15
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600L
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English
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"The double kidnapping of the daughter of a famous Hollywood actress and the young son of the Secretary of the Treasury is only the beginning! Gary Soneji is a murderous serial kidnapper who wants to commit the crime of the century. Alex Cross is the brilliant homicide detective pitted against him. Jezzie Flanagan is the female supervisor of the Secret Service who completes one of the most unusual suspense triangles in any thriller you have ever read"--Publisher....
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Alex Cross novels volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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"In Los Angeles, a reporter investigating a series of murders is killed. In Chapel Hill, North Carolina, a beautiful medical intern suddenly disappears. In the sequel to Along Came a Spider, Washington D.C.'s Alex Cross is back to solve the most baffling and terrifying murder case ever. Two clever pattern killers are collaborating, cooperating, competing-and they are working coast to coast."--Page [4] of cover.
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Alex Cross novels volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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A child killer is stalking the inner city of Washington, D.C., his latest victim Shanelle Green, an adorable first grader from Sojourner Truth School. This killing is especially unsettling to Detective Alex Cross. Sojourner Truth is the school his son Damon attends, just four blocks from his home. While the death of an inner-city black child doesn't garner much media attention, another murder is making big headlines. The same day that Shanelle was...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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Alex Cross is back-and so is a raging and suicidal Gary Soneji. Out of prison and dying from the AIDS virus he contracted there, he will get revenge on Cross before he dies. In addition, we are introduced to a new pair of rivals whose paths cross that of Alex and Soneji. Thomas Augustine Pierce has been chasing his demon, Mr. Smith, since the savage murder of his fiancée. Mr. Smith is a unique monster, with actions toward his victims so insane and...
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Alex Cross novels volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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'It's all just a game, darling. I play with three other men. Their names are FAMINE, WAR and CONQUEROR. My name is DEATH. You're a very lucky girl - I'm the best player of all.' Geoffrey Shafter: a man who never loses, he is prepared to play the game of games for the highest stakes of all. Alex Cross: senior Washington, DC homicide detective, he is determined, whatever the consequences, to unmask the man he has nicknamed the weasel, the prime suspect...
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Alex Cross novels volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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Facing a particularly vicious killer in his latest investigation, Alex Cross finds his family targeted by the vengeful Mastermind, a situation complicated by tension in his relationship with his girlfriend and his daughter's unexplained seizures.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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"Alex Cross joins forces with a female San Francisco detective to investigate a pattern of murders occurring across the country that draws him into the bizarre subculture of ritual role-playing and vampirism."--from NoveList.
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Alex Cross novels volume 8
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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With his resignation from the Washington Police interrupted by a case involving a friend who has been framed for murder, Alex Cross and partner John Sampson journey across military lines to confront the most brutal killer of their careers. Alex Cross is plunged into a case where military codes of honor conceal dark currents of revenge and ambition, and the men controlling the moves have the best weapons and training the world can offer.
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Alex Cross novels volume 9
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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Alex Cross's first case since joining the FBI has his new colleagues stymied. Across the country, beautiful women are being kidnapped-to be bought and sold as slaves. Behind this depraved scheme stands a shadowy figure known only as The Wolf, a master criminal who has brought a new reign of terror to organized crime. With Alex's personal life in chaos because of his ex-fiancée's return and with the FBI's caution testing his patience, Alex has to...
10) London bridges
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Alex Cross novels volume 10
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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Minutes after soldiers evacuate a Nevada town, a bomb completely destroys it. On vacation, FBI agent Alex Cross gets the call: the blast was perpetrated by the Wolf. A supercriminal and Cross's deadliest nemesis, the Wolf threatens to obliterate major cities, including London, Paris, and New York. Then evidence reveals the involvement of a ruthless assassin known as the Weasel. Could these two dark geniuses be working together? Now with just four...
11) Mary, Mary
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Alex Cross novels volume 11
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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When he investigates the murder of an actress outside of her Beverly Hills home, FBI agent Alex Cross learns that the attack was the latest in a series of celebrity killings linked to the elusive Mary Smith.
12) Cross
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Alex Cross novels volume 12
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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"Years after his wife Maria is gunned down by an unknown shooter, a crime that has never been solved, psychologist Alex Cross is called in by his former partner, John Sampson, who wants his help on a case that reveals a connection to Maria's death."--from NoveList.
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Alex Cross novels volume 13
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
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English
Description
Just when Alex thought his life was calming down into a routine of patients and therapy sessions, he finds himself back in the game--this time to catch a criminal mastermind like no other. A spate of elaborate murders in Washington D.C. have the whole East Coast on edge. They are like nothing Alex Cross and his new girlfriend, Detective Brianna Stone, have ever seen. With each murder, the case becomes increasingly complex. There's only one thing Alex...
14) Cross country
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Alex Cross novels volume 14
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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Detective Alex Cross' investigation of a series of brutal murders in Washington, D.C., leads him to an underground gang of teenage thugs headed by a warlord known only as the Tiger, and when the Tiger's trail leads to Nigeria, Cross knows he must follow in what turns out to be the most challenging hunt of his career.
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Alex Cross novels volume 15
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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Detective Alex Cross tells the story of an ancestor, Abraham Cross, and his experiences with lawyer Ben Corbett, recounting one man's pursuit of justice in the face of the resurgence of Ku Klux Klan racism and violence in 1906 Eudora, Mississippi.
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Alex Cross novels volume 16
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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Detective Alex Cross is pulled out of a family celebration and given the awful news that a beloved relative has been found brutally murdered. Alex vows to hunt down the killer, and soon learns that she was mixed up in one of Washington's wildest scenes. And she was not this killer's only victim. Determined to catch the culprit, Cross joins forces with his lover, Detective Brianna Stone, and persues the case all the way to the seediest sections of...
17) Cross fire
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Alex Cross novels volume 17
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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As Alex Cross tries to plan his wedding, an elusive gunman is killing crooked D.C. politicians, and Cross must battle with FBI agent Max Siegel over jurisdiction as he tries to crack the case--until Cross finds out his arch enemy Kyle Craig is in town and doesn't plan on leaving until Alex and his family are dead.
18) Kill Alex Cross
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Alex Cross novels volume 18
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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Detective Alex Cross is thwarted at every turn while he attempts to investigate the abduction of the President's son and daughter and also discovers a deadly contagion released in the Capitol's water supply that foreshadows of a larger, more devastating attack.
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Alex Cross novels volume 19
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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It's Christmas Eve and Detective Alex Cross has been called out to catch someone who's robbing his church's poor box. That mission behind him, Alex returns home to celebrate with Bree, Nana, and his children. The tree decorating is barely underway before his phone rings again--a horrific hostage situation is quickly spiraling out of control. Away from his own family on the most precious of days, Alex calls upon every ounce of his training, creativity,...
20) Alex Cross, run
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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Alex Cross is on the hunt of his life. In Washington, D.C., top plastic surgeon Elijah Creem is renowned for his operating skills--and his wild parties of drugs, champagne, and illicit sex. When Detective Alex Cross busts one of Creem's soirees, the doctor takes the most drastic step to avoid prison. Before Alex can finish this case, a beautiful woman is murdered with a lock of her hair viciously ripped off. Then a second woman is found, hanging from...
21) Cross my heart
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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Alex Cross becomes the obsession of a genius of menace set on proving that he is the greatest mind in the history of crime. Detective Alex Cross is a family man at heart--nothing matters more to him than his children, his grandmother, and his wife Bree. His love of his family is his anchor, and gives him the strength to confront evil in his work. One man knows this deeply, and uses Alex's strength as a weapon against him. When the ones Cross loves...
22) Hope to die
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Alex Cross novels volume 22
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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"Detective Alex Cross is being stalked by a psychotic genius, forced to play the deadliest game of his career. Cross's family--his loving wife Bree, the wise and lively Nana Mama, and his precious children--have been ripped away. Terrified and desperate, Cross must give this mad man what he wants if he has any chance of saving the most important people in his life. The stakes have never been higher: What will Cross sacrifice to save the ones he loves?"...
23) Cross justice
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Alex Cross novels volume 23
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English
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"Alex Cross left his hometown, and some awful family tragedies, for a better life with Nana Mama in Washington, DC. He hasn't looked back. Now his cousin is accused of an unthinkable murder, and Cross returns to Starksville, North Carolina, for the first time in thirty-five years. But truth is hard to come by in a town where no one feels safe to speak. Chasing ghosts takes Cross to the sugarcane fields of Florida, where he's pulled into a case needing...
24) Cross the line
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Alex Cross novels volume 24
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English
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Shots ring out in the early morning hours in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. When the smoke clears, a prominent police official lies dead, leaving the city's police force scrambling for answers. Under pressure from the mayor, Alex Cross steps into the leadership vacuum to investigate the case. But before Cross can make any headway, a brutal crime wave sweeps across the region. The deadly scenes share only one common thread -- the victims are all criminals....
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Alex Cross novels volume 25
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English
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Alex Cross has never been on the wrong side of the law--until he's charged with gunning down followers of his nemesis Gary Soneji in cold blood. Now Cross is being turned into the poster child for trigger-happy cops who think they're above the law. It was self-defense; will a jury see it that way? As Cross fights for his professional life and his freedom, his former partner John Sampson brings him a gruesome, titillating video tied to the mysterious...
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Alex Cross novels volume 26
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English
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First target: the head of state. A leader has fallen, and the procession route from Capitol Hill to the White house is lined with hundreds of thousands of mourners. No one feels the loss more keenly than Alex Cross, having devoted his life to the public good. Second target: the United States cabinet. A sniper's bullet strikes deep in the heart of D.C. Cross's wife, Bree Stone, must solve the case or lose her position as chief of D.C. detectives. And...
27) Criss Cross
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Alex Cross novels volume 27
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English
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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...
28) Deadly Cross
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Alex Cross novels volume 28
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English
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Kay Willingham led a life as glamorous as it was public--she was a gorgeous Georgetown socialite, philanthropist, and the ex-wife of the vice president. So why was she parked in a Bentley convertible idling behind a DC private school, in the middle of the night, with the man who was the head of that school? Who shot them both, point blank, and why? The shocking double homicide is blazed across the internet, TV, newspapers--and across Alex Cross's...
29) Fear no evil
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Alex Cross novels volume 29
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English
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"Alex Cross enters the final battle with the all-knowing genius who has stalked him and his family for years. Dr. Alex Cross and Detective John Sampson venture into the rugged Montana wilderness--where they will be the prey. They're not on the job, but on a personal mission. Until they're attacked by two rival teams of assassins, controlled by the same mastermind who has stalked Alex and his family for years. Darkness falls. The river churns into...
30) Triple Cross
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Alex Cross novels volume 30
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English
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"Detective Alex Cross hunts down a serial killer who targets entire families--and who will next be coming for the Crosses. A precise killer, he always moves under the cover of darkness, flawlessly triggering no alarms, leaving no physical evidence. Cross and Sampson aren't the only ones investigating. Also in on this most intriguing case is the world's bestselling true-crime author, who sees patterns everyone else misses. The writer, Thomas Tull,...
31) Cross down
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Alex Cross novels volume 31
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English
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"For the first time, John Sampson is on his own. The brilliant crime-solving duo of Washington, DC's, Metro PD and the FBI has a proven MO: Detective Alex Cross makes his own rules. Detective John Sampson enforces them. When military-style attacks erupt, brutally sidelining Cross, Sampson is sent reeling. The patterns are too random--Sampson's friend, his partner, his brother--have told him. Don't trust anyone. As a shadow force advances on the nation's...
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Alex Cross novels volume 32
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English
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An airport killer targeting pilots expands his scope. Alex Cross Must Die. "Drop whatever you're doing, Detective Cross, and head to Reagan Airport," DC Metro Police dispatch says. "A jet just crashed and exploded on the runway. The chief and the FBI want you and John Sampson there pronto." Cross and Sampson race to the crash site. The plane didn't fail--it was shot down by a stolen Vietnam War-era machine gun. The list of experts who can operate...
33) Cross kill
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Along Came a Spider killer Gary Soneji has been dead for over ten years. Alex Cross watched him die. But today, Cross saw him gun down his partner. Is Soneji alive? Or something even more sinister? Nothing will prepare you for the wicked truth.
34) Detective Cross
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An anonymous caller has promised to set off deadly bombs in Washington, DC. A cruel hoax or the real deal? By the time Alex Cross and his wife, Bree Stone, uncover the chilling truth, it may already be too late....