Criss Cross
Alex Cross Adventures • Book 27
Narrated by Andre Blake
Why You'll Love This
A killer who studies Alex Cross like a case file — and knows things only someone very close should know.
- Great if you want: a thriller where the detective becomes the hunted
- Listening experience: punchy, fast chapters — never stops moving
- Narration: Blake commands Cross's intensity without overplaying the dread
- Skip if: you're new to the series — payoff requires history with Cross
About This Book
A killer who calls himself M has been leaving notes on murder scenes addressed to Alex Cross, suggesting that Cross made a catastrophic error years ago that put an innocent man to death. The taunting trail leads Cross away from Washington to Florida sugarcane country, where a series of socialite murders with increasingly grotesque signatures pulls him in multiple directions at once. Cross's personal history surfaces alongside the case, and the question of whether M is delivering justice or pursuing something darker remains genuinely ambiguous until the end.
Andre Blake narrates this twenty-seventh Alex Cross novel with the gravity the character and situation require. His reading of Cross is authoritative without being self-important, and he handles the novel's shifts between domestic life and violent investigation without losing emotional continuity. At just over eight hours, Criss Cross is a lean, fast-moving entry in the series that works particularly well in audio.
