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Fiction.
Mystery.
Thriller.
HTML:Someone is murdering Hollywood's A-list, and Alex Cross's family vacation is cut short as he navigates a mysterious world of luxury, gossip, and hidden secrets. FBI Agent Alex Cross is on vacation with his family in Disneyland when he gets a call: a well-known actress was shot outside her home in Beverly Hills. Shortly afterward, an editor for the Los Angeles Times receives an email describing the murder in vivid details. Alex quickly learns that this is not an isolated incident. The killer, known as Mary Smith, has done this before and plans to kill again. Right from the beginning, this case is like nothing Alex has ever been confronted with before. Is this the plan of an obsessed fan or a spurned actor, or is it part of something much more frightening? Now members of Hollywood's A-list fear they're next on Mary's list, and the case grows by blockbuster proportions as the LAPD and FBI scramble to find a pattern before Mary can send one more chilling update.… (more)
Mary, Mary is the eleventh edition of the Alex Cross series where he is till a member of the FBI and the agency’s ‘go to man’. Once again Patterson makes you work hard to try and work out how the thriller will end, and it is rewarding. Then there is Cross’ love life in which he is so darn needy!
A murder in a New York movie theatre becomes a triple homicide that should be a doozy to solve for though it remained unsolved. The action switches from New York to Los Angeles and the Hollywood glitterati. A well-known face is murdered on her way home and then mutilated and an email is sent to the entertainment editor of the LA Times describing in great detail the murder. Cross handily is on vacation at Disneyworld in California and the whole family is having a great time and Cross is relaxed. Cross cannot help himself and has taken his pager with him. So much so that the Director of the FBI wants Cross to have a look at the Mary Smith Case that that the LAPD is in the process of investigating.
Cross while clocking up the airmiles is trying to hold his family together and he needs to avoid the LAPD-FBI struggle which he knows will happen. He also is well aware that the LAPD does not think his profile of Mary Smith to be correct. Unfortunately, there is only one way to find out if it is correct and that is be investigating Mary Smith and everyone around her. When Cross shakes that tree who knows what will fall out.
Another high-octane white-knuckle ride with plenty of twists. A great thriller. ( )
The first 2/3 of this book is mostly the Alex Cross work life balance crisis. It gets very irritating. The book is uneven and I really don't care about the Alex "Whoa is me, I have to work but don't want to leave my family because they give me crap about it" saga. There are long sections about his custody fight intermixed with quick visits to crime scenes. I think the writers realized they were about out of pages so they crammed the killer search into the last 1/3 of the book. ( )
Mary Mary. James Patterson. 2005. Alex Cross is on vacation with his family at Disney World when he is asked to look into what may be a serial murder. He is reluctant to get involved and has to work carefully around the LAPD but eventually identifies the murderer. Interspersed with his police work are details about his family life. It has been years since I have read an Alex Cross book, and he has moved from the police department to the FBI and somewhere along the line he has had an additional child that he wants custody of . As satisfying as all the books in this series are. ( )
I read it this week at work and loved it. I just bought the next book in the series and then I will be caught up on his series. I really enjoyed this book a lot and was surprised by the ending, Few books do that to me. ( )
This one is for my buds-Johnny, Frankie, Ned, Jim and Jim, Steve, Mike, Tom, and Tom, Merrill, David, Peter, B.J., Del, Hal, Ron, Mickey and Bobby, Joe, Art.
And it's for Mary Jordan, who makes it all work somehow, and who couldn't be more different from the notorious Mary, Mary.
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ACT ONE, SCENE ONE, the Storyteller thought to himsef, and couldn't hold back a dizzying rush of anticipation
Fiction.
Mystery.
Thriller.
HTML:Someone is murdering Hollywood's A-list, and Alex Cross's family vacation is cut short as he navigates a mysterious world of luxury, gossip, and hidden secrets. FBI Agent Alex Cross is on vacation with his family in Disneyland when he gets a call: a well-known actress was shot outside her home in Beverly Hills. Shortly afterward, an editor for the Los Angeles Times receives an email describing the murder in vivid details. Alex quickly learns that this is not an isolated incident. The killer, known as Mary Smith, has done this before and plans to kill again. Right from the beginning, this case is like nothing Alex has ever been confronted with before. Is this the plan of an obsessed fan or a spurned actor, or is it part of something much more frightening? Now members of Hollywood's A-list fear they're next on Mary's list, and the case grows by blockbuster proportions as the LAPD and FBI scramble to find a pattern before Mary can send one more chilling update.
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Somebody is murdering Hollywood's A-list. Her calling card: "You've got mail." On a family vacation, FBI agent Alex Cross is asked to investigate the shooting of a top actress...and an e-mail sent to the Los Angeles Times with shocking details about the murder, signed Mary Smith. More killings and more e-mails follow, and Mary Smith is getting better every time. To hunt down this merciless killer of Tinseltown's elite, Cross must navigate a world where the stars sip San Pellegrino at the Ivy as hopefuls hover around studio gates with 8 X 10 glossies. And when the case catapults into blockbuster proportions, Cross and the LAPD scramble to find a pattern--before Mary sends one more chilling update.
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A murder in a New York movie theatre becomes a triple homicide that should be a doozy to solve for though it remained unsolved. The action switches from New York to Los Angeles and the Hollywood glitterati. A well-known face is murdered on her way home and then mutilated and an email is sent to the entertainment editor of the LA Times describing in great detail the murder. Cross handily is on vacation at Disneyworld in California and the whole family is having a great time and Cross is relaxed. Cross cannot help himself and has taken his pager with him. So much so that the Director of the FBI wants Cross to have a look at the Mary Smith Case that that the LAPD is in the process of investigating.
Cross while clocking up the airmiles is trying to hold his family together and he needs to avoid the LAPD-FBI struggle which he knows will happen. He also is well aware that the LAPD does not think his profile of Mary Smith to be correct. Unfortunately, there is only one way to find out if it is correct and that is be investigating Mary Smith and everyone around her. When Cross shakes that tree who knows what will fall out.
Another high-octane white-knuckle ride with plenty of twists. A great thriller. (