Along Came a Spider (Alex Cross, #1)

by James Patterson

I was the picture of contentment on the sun porch of our house on 5th Street in Washington, D.C.

When I first started with Alex, for sixty to seventy pages, “I” was a woman detective called “Alexis,” and her last name wasn’t Cross. I was daunted by the task of creating this character, but then Alex came to me, and offered a lot of stories to tell.