along came a spider james patterson book

The series follows Alex Cross, a detective with a PhD in psychology hunting down killers, solving homicides and keeping his family, and himself, safe. Furthermore, the distinctive way the body has been mutilated suggests that Soneji may also have been behind the three murders they were investigating at the beginning of the novel.Last year I finally started on another series by author James Patterson, the Alex Cross series. They quickly realize that Soneji is responsible for the murder. Immediately afterward, he returns to D.C., where he disguises himself as a utility worker and murders a teacher at Washington Day. We learn that he has a wife and a daughter-and that he plans to kill them. Meanwhile, Soneji visits his home in Wilmington, Delaware.

Police find the farmhouse where the children were buried alive: the graves are empty. The man takes the money but doesn’t hand over Maggie Rose. Cross delivers the money to Disney World, Florida, where a man leads him to a plane and flies him out to a remote landing strip. Cross wonders how Soneji knows who he is. Soneji contacts the authorities to specify that Cross be given the responsibility for delivering the money. Meanwhile, the kidnapper, Gary Soneji, buries his victims alive at an abandoned farmhouse.Īs they work together to track the kidnapper, Cross and Flannagan begin an affair. He clashes with Jezzie Flannagan, the beautiful, motorcycle-riding Secret Service agent who had been in charge of the kidnapped children’s security detail. Cross is angry, feeling that the authorities-and the news media-care more about rich white victims than poor black ones. When a math teacher at the expensive private school, Washington Day, kidnaps two students, Maggie Rose Dunne and Michael Goldberg, Cross is pulled off the murder case to investigate the kidnapping. As the novel opens, Cross is investigating the brutal murders of two black prostitutes and a child in Washington, D.C. In 2001, the novel was adapted into a movie of the same name starring Morgan Freeman. Along Came a Spider is the first novel to feature Cross, who is the protagonist of a further eighteen Patterson novels. It follows African-American homicide detective and forensic psychologist Alex Cross as he chases down a murderer with a split personality. Along Came a Spider is a 1993 psychological crime thriller by American author James Patterson.

Along came a spider james patterson book