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Alex Crosss Trial

Alex Cross • Book 15

by et al. Patterson

Narrated by Dylan Baker

4.07 ABR Score (34.1K ratings)
★ 4.01 Goodreads (32.4K) ★ 4.16 Audible (1.7K)
8h 53m Released 2009 Thriller

Why Listen to This Audiobook?

The twist no one tells you: Alex Cross barely appears in his own book, and somehow that makes it hit harder.

  • Great if you want: historical legal drama with racial justice at the center
  • Listening experience: tense and propulsive — KKK-era Mississippi keeps the pressure constant
  • Narration: Baker's restrained, deliberate delivery suits the moral weight
  • Skip if: you came for Alex Cross the detective — he's barely here

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About This Audiobook

Alex Cross's Trial sends the detective back to the American South in the early twentieth century in a frame narrative where Cross tells a story from his family history. Ben Corbett, a young Washington attorney, travels to Eudora, Mississippi, tasked by Theodore Roosevelt with investigating the Ku Klux Klan's resurgent violence, and finds himself immersed in a community where the structures of law offer no protection against organized terror.

Dylan Baker narrates with a measured clarity that suits both the historical distance and the urgency of events that the novel refuses to sanitize. The decision to explore racial violence in Patterson's format is unusual for the series, and Baker's steady voice gives the material appropriate gravity without either softening the horror or playing it for shock.