Alex Cross · Book 1
Along Came a Spider
- Published
- 4 January 1993
- Pages
- 448
- ISBN-13
- 9781787469723
- Type
- novel
About this book
"Along Came a Spider" (1993, 448 pages) launched the Alex Cross series, introducing the Washington, D.C. homicide detective and forensic psychologist -- a widowed father raising his family with grandmother Nana Mama -- and his first great villain, Gary Soneji. Its 2025 companion, "Return of the Spider," ties directly back to it, so it's still the natural starting point more than thirty books later.
Its place in Alex Cross
Along Came a Spider is book 1 in the Alex Cross series. It is followed by Kiss the Girls. 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
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780736655248
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9782724279665
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780446364195