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Hide and Seek – James Patterson
Hide and Seek was James Patterson’s first non-Alex Cross novel after finding fame with Among Came a Spider in 1994. (Just look at how prominent his name is on this first edition cover!) After two […]
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Jack and Jill (Alex Cross #3) – James Patterson
Even though the first two Alex Cross books were the ones turned into movies starring Morgan Freeman, it’s the third Alex Cross novel—Jack and Jill—that’s most deserving. Two killers (you can surmise what they call […]
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Kiss the Girls (Alex Cross #2) – James Patterson
Two years after Along Came a Spider put James Patterson on the map, he returned to the world of Alex Cross for a thriller featuring double the killers—Casanova and The Gentleman Caller. Killings are happening […]
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Along Came a Spider (Alex Cross #1) – James Patterson
This is the book that would make James Patterson famous. Along Came a Spider was Patterson’s seventh novel and was published seventeen years after his debut in 1976’s The Thomas Berryman Number. If I was […]
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The Midnight Club – James Patterson
From 1981-1993, James Patterson published only two novels. For those familiar only with his current prodigious output, that seems impossible to believe. What did Patterson do during those eleven years? He found his voice as […]
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Black Market / Black Friday – James Patterson
Black Market continues James Patterson’s movement into conspiracy thrillers, giving readers the story of a secret militia group out to destroy the American economy and Federal Agent/Wall Street Lawyer duo that has to take them […]
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Virgin / Cradle and All – James Patterson
Virgin has the distinction of being James Patterson’s first book to be made into a movie. Granted, it was a TV movie with a budget to match, but it shows a development in Patterson’s pre-Alex […]
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The Jericho Commandment / See How They Run – James Patterson
After two fairly small-scale novels in The Thomas Berryman Number and Season of the Machete, James Patterson crafts a novel about a global conspiracy involving Jewish people which…well, makes the plot not exactly age gracefully, […]
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Drawn in Ash (A Legacy of Ink #1) – John Otte
Just over a decade ago, I was getting my start as a book critic and came across this little Christian spec-fic publisher that was just getting started called Marcher Lord Press. One of their early […]
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The Season of the Machete – James Patterson
James Patterson followed up his Edgar Award-winning debut novel, The Thomas Berryman Murder, with a second novel about a sadistic husband-and-wife killing team who will stop at nothing to take down their target. The Season […]