Alex Cross · Book 8

Four Blind Mice

Published
18 November 2002
Pages
404
ISBN-13
9780747263494
Type
novel
Cover of Four Blind Mice

About this book

Published in 2002-11-18 at 404 pages, "Four Blind Mice" is the eighth Alex Cross novel, continuing the series' formula of alternating viewpoints -- letting readers inside the killer's head alongside Cross's own investigation -- and Cross's steady balancing act between his cases and his family life with Nana Mama in Southeast D.C.

Key facts about Four Blind Mice

James Patterson wrote Four Blind Mice, a novel on our list. It has been out since 18 November 2002. The book has 404 pages.

We list 3 editions of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780747263494 to find the main one.

Four Blind Mice is book 8 of 35 in the Alex Cross series. The series has 35 published books. However, the series starts with Along Came a Spider (1993). Cross and Sampson is the latest book in the series with a full release date, out on 9 February 2026.

Additionally, James Patterson writes Women's Murder Club, Honeymoon and Michael Bennett, plus 12 more series. Those series sit on our thriller, science fiction thriller and legal thriller shelves. Meanwhile, Delusional is the latest published James Patterson book on file, from 17 August 2026.

About James Patterson

James Patterson is an American author widely regarded as one of the bestselling and most prolific novelists in publishing history, with hundreds of books credited to his name across thrillers, young-adult fiction and non-fiction. See every James Patterson book in order.

Its place in Alex Cross

Four Blind Mice is book 8 in the Alex Cross series. It follows Violets Are Blue. It is followed by The Big Bad Wolf. 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…

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