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Criss Cross

Alex Cross • Book 27

by James Patterson

Narrated by Andre Blake

4.46 ABR Score (29.0K ratings)
★ 4.25 Goodreads (26.8K) ★ 4.61 Audible (2.2K)
8h 16m Released 2019 Thriller

Why Listen to This Audiobook?

A killer who studies Alex Cross like a case file — and knows things only someone very close should know.

  • Great if you want: a thriller where the detective becomes the hunted
  • Listening experience: punchy, fast chapters — never stops moving
  • Narration: Blake commands Cross's intensity without overplaying the dread
  • Skip if: you're new to the series — payoff requires history with Cross

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About This Audiobook

A killer who calls himself M has been leaving notes on murder scenes addressed to Alex Cross, suggesting that Cross made a catastrophic error years ago that put an innocent man to death. The taunting trail leads Cross away from Washington to Florida sugarcane country, where a series of socialite murders with increasingly grotesque signatures pulls him in multiple directions at once. Cross's personal history surfaces alongside the case, and the question of whether M is delivering justice or pursuing something darker remains genuinely ambiguous until the end.

Andre Blake narrates this twenty-seventh Alex Cross novel with the gravity the character and situation require. His reading of Cross is authoritative without being self-important, and he handles the novel's shifts between domestic life and violent investigation without losing emotional continuity. At just over eight hours, Criss Cross is a lean, fast-moving entry in the series that works particularly well in audio.