Deadly cross
James Patterson (Author)
A double homicide in the nation's capital opens the psychological case files--of Detective Alex Cross. Kay Willingham led a life as glamorous as it was public--she was a gorgeous Georgetown socialite, a philantrhopist, and the ex-wife of the vice president. So why was she parked in a Bentley convertible, idling behind a DC private school, in the middle of the night, with the man who was the head of that school" Who shot them both, point-blank, and why" The shocking doulbe homicide is blazed across the internet, TV, newspapers--and Alex Crosss mind. Willingham had been his patient once. And maybe more. While JOhn Sampson of DC Metro Police investigates the last movements of Randall Christopher, the educator killed along iwth Kay Willingham, detective Alex Cross and FBI special agent Ned Mahoney find unawnswered questions from Willingham's past, before she arrived in DC and became known in Washington society as someone who could make things happen. They travel to Alabama to investigate Willingham's early yeras. There they find a world of trouble, corruption, and secrets-;closed to outsiders like Cross and Mahoney. Willingham had many enemies, but all of them seemed to need her alive. The harder the investigators push, the more resistance they find when they leave behind the genteel law offices and doctors' quarters of the state capital. Alex Cross will need to use all his skills as a dcotor, a detective, and a fmaily man to prevent that resistance from turning lethal...again. -- From dust jacket
Print Book, English, 2020
Little, Brown and Company, New York, 2020