On his birthday, detective Alex Cross is informed that his niece, Caroline, has been brutally murdered and Cross' investigation leads him to a fantasy-driven scene in Washington, D.C., where he realizes he is tracking a serial killer, but danger mounts when Cross connects the deaths to some very important people.
year: 2009
call number/section: 1000
subjects: cross, alex (fictitious character), fiction, african american detectives, murder, investigation, cross, alex (fictional character), washington (d.c.), fiction