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Description edit
FBI agent Alex Cross is on vacation with his family at Disneyland when he gets a call from the Director. A well-known actress was shot outside her home in Beverly Hills. Shortly afterward, an editor for the Los Angeles Times receives an e-mail describing the murder in vivid detail. Alex... read more
Ridiculously Simplified Synopsis edit
- - Alex Cross has to track down a serial killer that is targeting celebrities.
Characters edit
- Mary Mary: Mary Mary is the murderer of the on-going Hollywood murders, but the L.A.P.D. has to find her. Before and after each murder she sends Alex Griner, the LA Times publisher an e-mail about how she has been stalking them and the details of the horendous murder.
- Mary Smith: The killer
- Christine: Alex's old flame and Alex Jr.'s mom
- Mary Wagner: The women arrested for the murders of the Mary Smith case. She is very unordinary and strange. For example, she has three imaginary children, which show she is quite crazy. She drives a blue Suburbam.
- Damon: Alex Cross' son
- Nana Mama: Alex Cross' grandmother
- Jeanne Galletta: LAPD police office heading up the Mary Smith case in California
- Jannie: Daughter of Alex Cross
- Kayla Coles: Nana Mama's doctor and a potential love interest for Alex
- Brendan: son of Mary Wagner
- Sampson: Alex Cross' best friend
- Ashley: daugther to Mary Wagner
- Jamilla: ongoing love interest of Alex Cross in the series.
- Michael Bell: husband to a victim
- James Truscott: reporter/papparrazi
- Adam: son to Mary Wagner
- Fred Van Allsburg: FBI-agent in L.A.
- Tracey: #11
- Mary Constantine: A.k.a. Mary Wagner.
- Little Alex: son of Alex Cross and Christine
- Arnold Griner: LA Times reporter following the Mary Smith case.
- Antonia Schifman: Add a description of this character.
- Alicia
- Ron Burns: FBI director who Alex Cross reports to
- Billie: Sampson's wife
- Ms Johnson: Christine. Alex Cross' former fiancée and mother of Little Alex
- Patrice Bennett
- Dr Shapiro
- Mrs Lapierre: old friend of Mary Wagner
- Marti
- Maddux
- Mommy
- Walther Ppk: a type of gun
- Karl Page: young FBI agent who lives in California and is assigned to the Mary Smith case. He works with Alex Cross on the investigation.
- Susan Cartoulis
- Anne Billingsley
- Storyteller
Setting & Locations edit
First Sentence edit
Act one, scene one, the Storyteller thought to himself, and couldn't hold back a dizzying rush of anticipation.
Table of Contents edit
Prologue: The storyteller
Chapters 1 - 2
Part One: The 'Mary Smith' murders
Chapters 3 - 14
Part Two: I love LA
Chapters 15 - 46
Part Three: Juggling acts
Chapters 47 - 71
Part Four: The blue suburban
Chapters 72 - 98
Part Five: End of story
Chapters 99 - 121
Series & Lists edit
This is book 11 of 18 in Alex Cross. (standard series)
Preceded by London Bridges, and followed by Cross.
This is book 3 of 10 in Publishers Weekly Bestselling Novels In 2005. (authoritative list)
Preceded by The Da Vinci Code, and followed by At First Sight.
Authors & Contributors edit
- James Patterson (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Country: U.S.A.
Publication Date: 14 November 2005
ISBN: 031615976X
Page Count: 435
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Country: U.S.A.
Publication Date: 14 November 2005
ISBN: 031615976X
Page Count: 435
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: PS3566.A822 M37 2005
- Dewey: 813.54
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