Alex Cross was a rising star in the Washington, DC, Police Department when an unknown shooter gunned down his wife, Maria, in front of him. The killer was never found, and the case turned cold, filed among the unsolved drive-bys in D.C.'s rough neighborhoods. Years later, still haunted by his wife's death, Cross is making a bold move in his life. Now a free agent from the police and the FBI, he's set up practice as a psychologist once again. His life...

He had always wanted to be famous. When he kidnapped two well-known rich kids it was headline news. Then one of them was found--dead. For such a high-profile case, they needed Alex Cross, police psychologist, and Jezzie Flanagan, a Secret Service agent, and even they were no match for the killer.

Two killers compete with each other for who can commit the most murders. One lives in Los Angeles and specializes in dismembering his victims, the other operates in the Carolinas, his specialty being college girls. By the author of Along Came a Spider.

As a psychopath escapes from jail in the U.S. to begin murdering again, a similar killer goes on a rampage in Europe. It befalls to Alex Cross, the Washington detective, to bring the two men to justice.

In Washington, two lots of serial killers compete for the limelight. One lot kills famous people as they work their way up to the president, the other kills black children in ever-growing numbers. Black deputy police chief Alex Cross leads a manhunt.

Sleuth Lou Boldt becomes entangled in an all-too-personal case when his wife Liz is blackmailed by an old lover, David Hayes, a one-time computer specialist at the bank where she is an executive.

Psychologist Tony Hill and Detective Carol Jordan's investigation of a teenage girl's murder leads them to an Internet predator.

A police psychologist is assigned to interview a student suspected of murdering his classmate. As she probes his troubled psyche, she unravels a bizarre, disturbing relationship between the two boys and a series of gruesome murders. Dark secrets and dangerous mind games weave a shocking tale of deception, betrayal and murder.

Investigating the death of a woman who was pushed off a bridge, Lou Boldt joins forces with Daphne Matthews to follow a trail through Seattle's underworld and finds evidence linking the murder to a case he is already following.