| ‘Twas the Night Before
Easter
The Prologue for Cross My Heart has Alex Cross walking
alone in the middle of the night, grieving - and this is just
one of cliff hangers to hold you in your place…
16 days earlier…
The movements of the Cross family are being monitored and
documented. Writer Marcus Sunday sits in a van, posing as
a vacuum repairman named Thierry Mulch. Right away, the reader
wonders why he’s following Alex and his family. Is Marcus
trying to catch Alex or Brie doing something they shouldn’t
so he can expose them?
District of Columbia has one of the worst homicide rates
in three decades. Cross is now the roaming investigator for
both the homicide and major case squads. He and his partner
(and friend), John Sampson, bear the burden of resolving these
cases. The latest crime is a murder at a massage joint and
the victim is a popular football player. Not only is he murdered
in a sleazy massage parlor, drugs are found with him and a
woman claiming to be his wife comes forward. The secondary
thread in Cross Your Heart is about Ava, the girl
who stayed with the Cross family for a while, and she’s
now missing…
Listeners/readers are aware of the murderer with the manic
behavior. It gets really creepy and at some points too graphic
-- for me, anyway. Cross and Sampson do their best to hunt
the killer down. The Cross family is also involved the storyline.
Alex is updating their kitchen and bathrooms. NanaMoma is
taking the change personal. In listening to the audio I thought
opening their home to contractors (strangers) will make them
vulnerable, surely Alex is smarter than that.... We'll see...
Patterson gives readers exactly what they crave: Cliffhangers
from chapter to chapter, strong dialogue, edge-of-the-seat
action. It’s compelling content throughout. Alex Cross
fans do not want to miss this one.
Actor Michael Boatman continues to breath life in to Alex
Cross for audio listeners. Boatman narrates Walter Mosely’s
Easy Rawlin series, as well as other genres and nonfiction
such as Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela.
Actor Tom Wopat narrates the creepy parts of the storyline.
Wopat narrates titles by David Baldacci, Elmore Leonard, Nicholas
Sparks and more. His version of this killer is chilling. I
had to stop and take a breath a time or two.
The audio version of Cross My Heart is intense;
expect to keep your mp3 player or Ipod close until it’s
over.
Reviews
of other titles in this series
Along Came a Spider #1
[audio]
Kiss the Girls
#2 [audio]
Jack and Jill #3 [audio]
Pop Goes the Weasel #5 [book]
[audio]
Violets are Blue #7 [book]
Four Blind Mice #8 [book]
[audio]
Big Bad Wolf #9 [book]
London Bridges #10 [audio]
Mary Mary #11 [audio]
Cross # 12 [audio]
Double Cross #13 [book]
[audio]
Cross Country
# 14 [book]
Alex Cross Trial #13 [book]
[audio]
I, Alex Cross #16 [book]
[audio]
Cross Fire #17 [audio]
Kill Alex Cross #18 [audio]
Merry Christmas, Alex Cross #19
Alex Cross, Run #20 [audio]
Cross My Heart #21 [audio]
Hope to Die #22 [audio]
Cross Justice #23 [audio]
Cross Kill #23.1 [audio]
- short story
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