Author Page : James Patterson - List of Titles on Sale (IMAGOSCAPE.COM Books Update)

1st to Die

Wed, 02 Feb 2005

The Womens Murder Club pits four San Francisco women professionals against a serial killer whos stalking and murdering newlyweds in bestselling author James Pattersons newest thriller. Lindsay Boxer is a homicide inspector whos just gotten some very bad news. She deals with it by immersing herself in her newest case and soliciting the personal as well as professional support of her closest friend, who happens to be the citys medical examiner. The...more

3rd Degree

Mon, 29 Oct 2007

Detective Lindsay Boxer and Assistant District Attorney Jill Bernhardt are enjoying a quiet afternoon in San Francisco when a townhouse across the street explodes in flames. A sinister note signed August Spies is found at the scene of the disaster, and the body of an infant who was asleep in the house at the time of the explosion cannot be found. Soon a wave of violent incidents, all with links to political terrorism and involving August Spies, s...more

Along Came A Spider

Sun, 30 Jan 2005

Alex Cross, a black Washington, D.C., police detective with a Ph.D. in psychology, and Jezzie Flanagan, a white motorcycling Secret Service agent, become lovers as they work together to apprehend a chilling psychopath who has kidnapped two children from a posh private school. The psychotic villain, who aspires to become more notorious than Lindbergh baby kidnapper Bruno Hauptmann, is effectively nightmarish. Atypical characters, sex, sometimes sh...more

Along Came A Spider

Wed, 26 Mar 2008

Cradle and All

Fri, 20 Apr 2007

The year is 1987, a time centuries removed from the first humble beginnings in Bethlehem, seventy years after the miracle at Fatima when the Blessed Virgin appeared to give a message to mankind. The message was a promise -- and a warning. Now, as prophesied, the signs were beginning: *hoards of snakes invading the hillsides of Mexicos Madre Oriental Mountains *sightings of a massive comet hurtling toward the earth *reports from Newport, Rhode Isl...more

Cradle and All

Tue, 01 Apr 2008

Four Blind Mice

Wed, 02 Feb 2005

With Patterson continuing to move in unexpected directions (his next novel, The Jester, due out in March 2003, is a medieval adventure), its a pleasure to see him touch home base with another Alex Cross thriller this one the best Cross yet. The mice of the title are three homicidal Army Rangers, Vietnam vets, and their mysterious controller; as is usual in the Cross novels, we know this much sooner than does the black Washington, D.C., detective,...more

Four Blind Mice

Fri, 06 Oct 2006

Jack And Jill

Mon, 29 Oct 2007

Back on home territory after the Kiss the Girls case, Alex Cross faces his most harrowing challenge yet: a pair of ice-cold killers who are picking off the nations rich and famous one by one with chilling professional efficiency. ...more

Kiss The Girls

Mon, 29 Oct 2007

As two serial killers terrorize different regions of America, the FBI begins to suspect that the two are competing with each other, and Washington, D.C. police detective Alex Cross embarks on a personal quest to find the perpetrators....more

Pop Goes The Weasel

Sun, 30 Jan 2005

Patterson dedicates his latest (after 1998s When the Wind Blows) to the millions of Alex Cross readers who so frequently ask Cant you write faster? Those readers wont be disappointed: the successful formula is in high gear, with the Washington, D.C., psychologist/homicide detective up to his ears in unsolved murders. This tale features a duplicitous villain, a glut of dirty office politics and the inevitable threat to someone Cross just cant live...more

Pop Goes The Weasel

Wed, 02 Feb 2005

Pop Goes The Weasel

Tue, 01 Apr 2008

The Jester

Thu, 05 Jan 2006

Just who is writing the coauthored Patterson novels makes for interesting water-cooler chat, but whether the majority of words are contributed by Patterson or Gross, this terrific new novel is prime Patterson all the way, another step in the authors application of his patented storytelling style to a multitude of genres-in this case, historicals. The title character is, when introduced in 1096, an unassuming innkeeper in a French village oppresse...more

The Midnight Club

Fri, 06 Oct 2006

Guaranteed: youll devour this yarn-burner in one sitting. --NEW YORK DAILY NEWS

John Stefanovich, a tough New York cop, has one mission in life-to nab Alexandre St. Germain, the most treacherous and powerful member of the Midnight Club-a secret international society whose membership is limited to an elite group of ruthless crime czars, all of whom are respectable businessmen. Blasted by St. Germains shotgun, Stef is left in a w...more

Violets Are Blue

Thu, 03 Feb 2005

Washington, D.C., police detective Alex Cross returns for another visit (after Roses Are Red) to the top of the lists and for two new cases of disparate quality. The first, which dominates the narrative, takes place within Americas vampire underground and is as exciting as anything Patterson has written; the second, in which Cross at last defeats the nemesis known as the Mastermind, feels tacked on only to knot loose ends. In San Francisco, two j...more

Violets Are Blue

Thu, 03 Feb 2005