Obsessed

Its place in Michael Bennett

Obsessed is book 17 in the Michael Bennett series. It follows Shattered. It is followed by Crosshairs. See the full Michael Bennett reading order.

Detective Michael Bennett works major cases for the NYPD while raising ten adopted children alone in a cramped Manhattan apartment, with his grandfather Seamus (a wisecracking retired priest) and, later, nanny-turned-partner Mary Catherine holding the household together. That domestic chaos is the series' secret weapon: Patterson pairs it against some of his most theatrical New York set-pieces — hostage sieges at St. Patrick's Cathedral, a serial killer targeting the city's elite, international manhunts that pull…