![]() The most interesting aspect of the Cross books is not the murders, though the crimes do hook and surprise readers. ![]() That murder, like the majority of murders in Southeast, had never been solved. Three years before, my wife had been murdered in a drive-by shooting. On the bureau, by the bed, was a picture of Maria Cross. ![]() Over the sport coat, I put on my Georgetown warm-up jacket. It was a murder day, and that meant I’d be seeing white people. I had already decided to wear my old Harris Tweed jacket. I was daunted by the task of creating this character, but then Alex came to me, and offered a lot of stories to tell. 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 the picture of contentment on the sun porch of our house on 5th Street in Washington, D.C. A lot can happen there-more than any place in the world. It’s a fascinating place, with a diverse population and a wide range of communities, that, from a crime fiction perspective, offer an inexhaustible supply of cases. Not only is the seat of the national government there, but also the DEA, FBI, and CIA. That’s easy – it’s the most interesting city in the county to set a detective series. Why set the Cross series in Washington, DC? I’m often asked. ![]() Kindle Notes & Highlights From Along Came a Spider Master of Thriller Suspense, James Patterson, responds to his most highlighted quotes from the Alex Cross novel that started it all: Along Came a Spider. ![]()
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