Alex Cross Adventures: Alex Cross's TRIAL (Series #1) (Paperback)

from jonesli

I am a big fan of James Patterson's Alex Cross series. Alex Cross's Trial, however, is not the typical Alex Cross mystery novel. It is the story of Alex's great uncle Abraham Cross's struggles against the Ku Klux Klan in the early 1900's. A young lawyer named Ben Corbett travels from Washington D...

from hemlokgang

Audiobook............A good piece of historical fiction set in Eudora, Mississippi during Teddy Roosevelt's presidency. The story is told by one of the author's longtime astute detective characters as he writes a piece of family history, about the role of the family in revealing the continuing pr...

from dsdmd

James Patterson is like many successful authors. He writes a really good book or two, becomes famous, and then pours forth one mediocre (or sometimes just plain bad) book after another. I keep reading them hoping for another one like the really good ones, but it never appears. This is better than...

from delphimo

I have read many of Patterson's books, and enjoy his easy reading style. I found this to be the best novel that he has written. I am surprised that Patterson chose to tell a Southern story, and a story that did not end with the trial decision anticipated. The story happens in 1906 in a small town...

from readafew

Alex Cross's Trial was pretty amazing. Even though this is considered the 15th book in the Alex Cross series, it only fits because Cross "wrote" this book about his relative (Great ^4th Grandfather?) who was pushing for civil rights in 1905. Other than the name Cross on a couple characters and th...