Alex Cross · Book 15
Alex Cross's Trial
- Published
- 24 August 2009
- Pages
- 408
- ISBN-13
- 9780446561808
- Type
- companion

About this book
"Alex Cross's Trial" (2009, 408 pages) is a historical companion piece within the series, centered on Cross's ancestors rather than the modern-day detective himself -- one of only two entries (alongside "Cross Down") that Patterson fans typically treat as an optional side dish rather than core reading.
Its place in Alex Cross
Alex Cross's Trial is book 15 in the Alex Cross series. It follows Cross Country. It is followed by I, Alex Cross. See the full Alex Cross reading order.
Dr. Alex Cross is a Washington, D.C. homicide detective and forensic psychologist — a widowed father raising his family in Southeast D.C. with the help of his indomitable grandmother, Nana Mama. That home life is the series' anchor, because everything else in Cross's world is chaos: James Patterson has spent three decades throwing history's most theatrical serial killers and criminal masterminds at him, from Gary Soneji in Along Came a Spider to Kyle Craig, the Mastermind, whose vendetta spans many books. The…
Editions
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