Name: Along came a spider
Rating: 3.860169491525424 (118 reviews)
ISBN: 0446692638

James Patterson

Along came a spider

Jill

First James Patterson read!! I wonder why it took me so long to give him a shot but boy, am I glad I did. Really enjoyed how fast-paced the story was. Now I’m more thrilled to indulge in the rest of this series.

Hugo

This book is a real page-turner. This was my first James Patterson novel, and his storytelling technique is amazing 🤩 

Cara Stegemann

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Katelyn Sykes

What a great thriller. I really loved the way it made you think and the turns that came in it.

brendan sudol

Bea R.

“Good is not good enough,” and “Good is the enemy of great.”

This is a novel about a one-of-a-kind killer who is as terrifying as he is intriguing.

Along Came a Spider

Paige Green

Rating: 4.5/5

Genre: Mystery

Recommended Age: 18+ (language, mature scenes, gore, children’s death, etc.)

Favorite Quote: “The doors of every house have a unique sound when they open and close.”

Along Came a Spider begins with the double kidnapping of the daughter of a famous Hollywood actress and the young son of the secretary of the Treasury. And that's only the beginning! Gary Soneji is a murderous serial kidnapper who wants to commit the crime of the century. Alex Cross is the brilliant homicide detective pitted against him. Jezzie Flanagan is the female supervisor of the Secret Service who completes one of the most unusual suspense triangles in any thriller you have ever read. – Amazon.com

If you’re anyone who loves Denzel Washington, then you’ve probably seen some of the Alex Cross books-turned-movies. I know I have seen probably all of them. And thus it started a love affair with mystery novels. So when I found the audio book of the first Alex Cross novel in a used bookstore… I HAD TO HAVE IT! And I managed to finish it in several days! And these are the reasons why: The characters are all so well developed, even down to some of the background characters that are needed to just move the plot along. The story, although told in multiple POVs, is written so well that one can “hear” the different voices of the characters. The plot is complex, but it works and is very well intricate. This is the main difference between this audio book and The Last Star: both have very intricate and complicated plots, but Along Came A Spider had so much backstory and it never changed direction in a completely unexpected way that the complication makes sense. 

So if I fell in love with this audio book so much, what didn’t I like about it? It’s not that I didn’t like anything about it, but I did feel that there should have been more POV from the kidnapped girl and the main villain of the story. I feel that having that would have only increased the horror of the story. Overall, I love James Patterson’s series and I will definitely be getting more of these audio books.

Discover the classic thriller that launched the #1 detective series of the past twenty-five years, now one of PBS's "100 Great American Reads" Alex Cross is a homicide detective with a Ph.D. in psychology. He works and lives in the ghettos of D. C. and looks like Muhammad Ali in his prime. He's a tough guy from a tough part of town who wears Harris Tweed jackets and likes to relax by banging out Gershwin tunes on his baby grand piano. But he also has two adorable kids of his own, and they are his own special vulnerabilities. Jezzie Flanagan is the first woman ever to hold the highly sensitive job as supervisor of the Secret Service in Washington. Blond, mysterious, seductive, she's got an outer shell that's as tough as it is beautiful. She rides her black BMW motorcycle at speeds of no less than 100 mph. What is she running from? What is her secret? 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? Gary Soneji is every parent's worst nightmare. He has become Alex Cross's nightmare. And now, reader, he's about to become yours.

Along came a spider

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