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    Cross Justice

    Written by James Patterson

    Narrated by Ruben Santiago-Hudson

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    About this audiobook

    The toughest cases hit closest to home.

    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 Stefan has been accused of a horrible, unthinkable murder, and Cross drives south with Bree, Nana Mama, Jannie, and Ali to Starksville, North Carolina, for the first time in thirty-five years. Back home, he discovers a once proud community down on its luck, and local residents who don't welcome him with open arms. As Cross steps into his family home, the horrors of his childhood flood back--and he learns that they're not really over. He brings all his skill to finding out the truth about his cousin's case. But truth is hard to come by in a town where no one feels safe to speak.

    Chasing his ghosts takes Cross all the way down to the sugarcane fields of Florida, where he gets pulled into a case that has local cops needing his kind of expertise: a string of socialite murders with ever more grisly settings. He's chasing too many loose ends--a brutal killer, the truth about his own past, and justice for his cousin--and any one of the answers might be fatal.

    In Cross Justice, Alex Cross confronts the deadliest--and most personal--case of his career. It's a propulsive, edge-of-your-seat thrill ride that proves you can go home again--but it just might kill you.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHachette Audio
    Release dateNov 23, 2015
    ISBN9781478928034
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    Cross Justice
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    James Patterson

    James Patterson is the CEO of J. Walter Thompson, an advertising agency in New York. He has written several successful fiction and nonfiction books, including The New York Times best seller The Day America Told the Truth.

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    • 4/5
      It'a been a few years since I've read a Cross book, and as expected, I thoroughly enjoyed this one. Alex goes back to his roots in NC and is helping investigate his nephew's rape/murder case. Several unexpected twists here, as we tend to get from these Cross novels. Great read.
    • 3/5
      Haven't read an Alex Cross novel in years. This was a good one and keep my interest.
    • 5/5
      Fabulous, just fabulous. This is the last book that I have of this series and it just got good again, like - really good.
      This is actually the best book in the latter part of the series.
      Alex's cousin is accused of raping and murdering a young man and is on trial. Alex has to return to his hometown to try and prove his cousins innocence. The whole family return and its been 30 years since they have been back. As per usual, Alex and Bree get totally caught up in the case and end up in danger at times.
      Then there is big family secret that comes out at the end. This book deserves a read. I just loved it!
    • 3/5
      I have a bone to pick with the person who decided that it was alright to begin the first CD with a long preview of an upcoming book. With CDs, it is impossible to skip ahead to where the real book starts so I listened for a while and then it run until it got to Cross Justice by James Patterson. At the end of the story, most of the last CD covered another long preview! I don't mind the one at the end so much as the preview at the beginning. Because of that I have decided to never listen to another book on CD by James Patterson. At the beginning of the story, Alex Cross, his wife, Bree, Nana Mama and his two children are with him on a trip to his hometown, Starkesville, North Carolina. His cousin, a gym teacher has been of torturing and killing one of his students. He wants to get at the truth and also find out the full story of what really happened to his parents and led to his adoption by Nana Mama.I have read books from this series before but not lately so I wasn't familiar with any of his family members. At the beginning there were quite a few characters introduces and I got confused with the characters in the preview in the other book. Also the reader laid on the Southern accent so thickly that it came off as false in the beginning. I did enjoy learning about Alex Cross's childhood and the mystery that connected with his cousin. Later the confusion seemed to calm down and I enjoyed the courtroom scenes.To me, as soon as the author stopped introducing new characters, the story got better. I also enjoyed the sound effects. The pace picked up and the story got more enthralling on the last CD.
    • 3/5
      Everyone in the family heads for Starkesville, NC...out of character for the Cross' family and really unnecessary for the plot. The characters are some we've not met before; some, we hope remain in subsequent episodes. The book reveals deep secrets from Alex's childhood....one wondered? Plot wise, there's about three going on and it's often hard to keep them separate. Show me the next in the series.
    • 4/5
      Alex Cross is my new favorite detective! I think Cross is the only detective I know who has a happily-married-with-kids background. Wife, Bree, and his two kids, Jannie and Ali, and the amazing Nana Mama, his grandmother, all trek down to North Carolina where Cross must try to get his cousin off the hook for a grisly murder. I have missed a few installments and will have to go back and find them: because I like Cross and Bree so much, but it was just fine to read this out of order. And... This is a two-for-one mystery, well, actually a three-for-one mystery! This book reveals deep, dark secrets from Cross' childhood. And while digging deeper into his past, Cross travels to Florida where he stumbles upon a mysterious ring of socialite murders. That's three mysteries! Humorous, intriguing, fast-paced with several close calls as people try to get rid of Cross and avoid getting caught. Totally recommended.
    • 5/5
      It's James Patterson. What more can I say ?? A great read that makes you feel you know the characters like family and friends.
    • 3/5
      Alex goes home to NC where he was born, and where his niece Naomi is now a lawyer. I believe she first appeared in Kiss the Girls, the first Alex Cross novel. I thought this story was a little too neat, with all the loose ends tied up neatly. Is this the final Cross book?
    • 4/5
      Always love a good Alex Cross story!
    • 5/5
      I really enjoyed this Alex Cross book. Alex heads off to his birth town to help out his cousin who is accused of horrendous crimes. While he is there, some information about his parents deaths comes to light. In the previous books, his parents are not really mentioned so this story was very interesting to me and gave some dimension to Alex and Nanna. Jannie is training with some University students and suddenly is accused of using drugs. While all this is going on there is another spate of murders happening in Palm Beach Florida that Alex gets mixed up in when he searches for information about his father. These multiple story lines all fit together extremely well in the conclusion of this book. I enjoyed it very much.
    • 4/5
      Cross Justice, James Patterson, author; Ruben Santiago-Hudson, narratorAt first, when the narrator starts reading, it is a bit off-putting. His voice almost lulls the reader into a trance, but then, as the story develops, it picks up a cadence and tone that keeps the reader enthralled and wide awake. Each character has a distinct voice and personality. This book has a similar plot line to the recent book by Michael Connelly, which also has a similar title, “The Crossing”. There is a criminal who insists he is falsely accused and law enforcement is corrupt; drugs, rape and murder are afoot. Then the storyline veers in an entirely different direction. If you liked “The Crossing”, you will probably also like this book and vice versa.When the book opens, there is a beautiful woman named Coco in a Palm Beach mansion. She is selecting clothes and jewelry from the closet of the woman she has just murdered. She shows no remorse for the crime, but rather thinks she was justified in performing her heinous act. Coco is a cross dresser, a man, who in that moment of time truly believes he is a woman.At the same time as this occurs, Dr. Alex Cross, his wife Bree, their son and daughter are in a car on their way to Starksville, North Carolina. Alex has not returned to see his family there in decades. He has few memories of his life there, and some of those that he has are distorted. Alex and Bree are both detectives with the Washington DC metro police. Recently, they have suffered through some trying times, and this trip, taking Alex back to his roots, is supposed to help them recover from that stress. Making matters a bit more complicated for them is the fact that their cousin Stefan has recently been arrested. He has been accused of drugging and raping a young female high school student and of an even more serious crime, the horribly brutal rape and murder of a young male high school student. Both victims were students in the school in which he was a teacher, and the evidence has mounted up against him. Stefan insists he has been framed. Alex and Bree agree to keep an open mind and work together with Naomi, their niece, who is the lawyer defending Stefan, to see if they can find out if he is telling the truth about his innocence. Starksville’s history is not unblemished. There is racial tension and a questionable justice system. During their stay in Starksville attempts are made on their lives, attempts are made to frame their daughter and Alex learns devastating secrets about his family that turn his life upside down, drastically altering all of the ideas he had previously held about his mother and father. When Alex learns that his father did not die in North Carolina, but actually, unknown to all but an uncle, had moved to a town in Florida where he eventually killed himself, Alex decided to travel there to see what he could discover about that part of his father’s life. He flew into Palm Beach and opportunely became involved in, and assisted in, the investigation of the murders committed by Coco, the above cross dresser. Meeting the detectives in charge of that case, as he pursued information on his father’s last days, eventually proved invaluable to him in his investigation into the crimes committed in Starksville.As this story proceeds, the reader will no doubt wonder how both of these cases are related, if they are at all. The many sub plots in this well constructed mystery are knitted together so logically that the narrative does not get confusing, but rather it gets more and more suspenseful. Slowly, the hidden lives and secrets of many of the characters come to light, and the connections between Palm Beach and Starksville will shock the reader as the crimes are solved. Take this book on an airplane, to the beach, to a bench in the park; listen to it in the car as you drive. Allow yourself to be swept away into the world of a really creative mystery with a conclusion you will never guess!