TY  - BOOK
AU  - Patterson,James
TI  - Criss cross
SN  - 9780316526883
U1  - 813/.54 23
PY  - 2019///
CY  - New York
PB  - Little, Brown and Company
KW  - Cross, Alex
KW  - African American detectives
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Murder
KW  - Investigation
KW  - Serial murderers
KW  - Judicial error
KW  - Family secrets
KW  - Washington (D.C.)
KW  - Detective and mystery fiction
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Thrillers (Fiction)
N2  - "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."--
ER  -