What to Read in Anticipation of the New Season of ‘Cross’
With the return of James Patterson’s Cross series for a second season on the horizon, now is the perfect time to pick up a thrilling and suspenseful book. Whether you’re a longtime fan of the franchise or coming in fresh, the right reads can sharpen your understanding of the show or just satiate your excitement while you wait.
From crime novels that match Alex Cross’s investigative intensity to thrillers that explore justice, trauma, and power, these books will get you fully primed for the new season.
Alex Cross and Jezzie Flanagan are about to have a forbidden love affair-at the worst possible time for both of them. Because Gary Soneji, who wants to commit the “crime of the century,” is playing at the top of his game. Soneji has outsmarted the FBI, the Secret Service, and the police. Who will be his next victim?
The chief of the town’s small police jurisdiction, who is also a family friend, asks for Graham’s assistance. Graham’s instincts immediately kick in and he soon discovers there’s more to the area—the people, its brutally quiet, sophisticated hierarchies—than he or his family ever knew.
Nash has little choice but to accept the FBI’s demands and try to bring Steers and her partners to justice. But when Steers discovers that Nash is working with the FBI, she turns the tables on him in a way he never could have contemplated. And that forces Nash to take the ultimate step both to survive and to take his revenge: He must become the exact opposite of who he has always been. And even that may not be enough.
Working the graveyard shift on New Year’s Eve, LAPD detective Renée Ballard responds to what looks like a random, celebratory shooting—until she realizes the fatal bullet that killed a hardworking auto shop owner didn’t fall from the sky. As Ballard uncovers links to an old, unsolved case once worked by Harry Bosch and simultaneously hunts the elusive serial rapists known as the Midnight Men, she finds herself battling a demoralized, post-pandemic police department and increasingly dangerous adversaries. With few allies left, Ballard turns to Bosch, and together they pursue intersecting cases that put them squarely in the sights of brutal predators willing to kill to keep their secrets buried.
