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Along Came a Spider (Alex Cross, #1)

James Patterson

Start date: May 1, 2010

Finish date: May 31, 2010

Discussion: Chapter 5: Suspense

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Mar 23, 2011 Lisa (Harmonybites) rated it liked it

Shelves: popular-fiction, suspense, ultimate-reading-list, fiction, contemporary, novels

I've read over a half dozen of Patterson's Alex Cross novels, and of those I've read this first one is the best. A lot of the reason I kept reading after this one is the protagonist detective, Alex Cross. He's likable and relatable here. He's a black detective and psychologist in Washington DC. One who doesn't want to leave the old neighborhood and raising two young children with his grandmother having lost his wife. Cross is smart, but most of all, in the first person parts of the novel, he con ...more

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Oct 22, 2013 Lillie rated it liked it · review of another edition

3.5 stars It took me a bit to get started. I kept wandering away from the book. But once I was hooked I read it in one sitting.

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Jul 10, 2013 Christian Dibblee rated it really liked it

Shelves: crime-mystery-thriller

Really liked this book. I got very concerned when the real action seemed done halfway through, but I didn't really see the neurosis of Gary Murphy coming. Certainly a great effort by Patterson, and one I recommend to anyone looking for a quick thrill read. ...more

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