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Alex Cross Séries

Cette série suit un psychologue et enquêteur brillant qui plonge dans les recoins les plus sombres de l'esprit humain pour attraper des criminels insaisissables. À chaque nouvelle affaire, il est confronté à des énigmes complexes et à des démons personnels qui mettent à l'épreuve sa détermination et son intellect. Le suspense s'intensifie à mesure qu'il se rapproche de la vérité, souvent au péril de sa propre sécurité. Les amateurs de thrillers captivants et psychologiques apprécieront cette série pour ses intrigues intelligentes et son protagoniste attachant.

Roses are Red
Pop goes the weasel
Au chat et à la souris
Jack & Jill
Et tombent les filles
Le masque de l'araignée

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  1. Le masque de l'araignée

    • 381pages
    • 14 heures de lecture

    Gary Soneji est persuadé depuis l'enfance qu'il deviendra célèbre. Son but est atteint lorsqu'il réussit à kidnapper le fils du ministre des finances et Maggie-Rose, la fille d'une star. Sa vanité lui sera fatale face à la perspicacité d'Alex Cross, détective et docteur en psychologie, qui saura lui tendre le piège final. Pourtant, malgré son arrestation, sa victime, Maggie-Rose, reste introuvable. Confronté à un coupable simulant la folie et persuadé qu'un autre kidnappeur a volé la vedette au premier et dérobé la rançon, Alex Cross ne pourra compter que sur lui-même pour retrouver les ravisseurs de la fillette. Gary Soneji, qui réussit à s'évader, est bien décidé à se venger des inconnus qui lui ont ravi la première place dans les médias. Le Masque de l'araignée est un modèle d'analyse psychologique sur la mythomanie. Ce roman réussi l'exploit de relancer le suspense grâce à la duplicité des coupables et à la complexité de leurs mobiles. Il crée un univers de paranoïa où tous les personnages sont potentiellement coupables

    Le masque de l'araignée1
    4,2

  2. Et tombent les filles

    • 383pages
    • 14 heures de lecture

    In Los Angeles, a reporter investigating a series of murders is killed. In Chapel Hill, North Carolina, a beautiful medical intern suddenly disappears. In Washington D.C. Alex Cross is back to solve the most baffling and terrifying murder case ever. Two clever pattern killers are collaborating, cooperating, competing - and they are working coast to coast.

    Et tombent les filles2
    4,0

  3. Jack & Jill

    • 384pages
    • 14 heures de lecture

    Un vent de panique souffle sur Washington : le FBI, la CIA, les services secrets sont tous sur les nerfs depuis que les personnalités les plus en vue de la capitale sont retrouvées assassinées les unes après les autres. Près des cadavres, un message, toujours le même : « Jack et Jill sont venus sur la colline.» Quelque part dans la ville, un couple d’amants diaboliques semble laisser au hasard le soin de choisir leurs cibles. Le but de ce jeu morbide ? Tôt ou tard, la mort du Président lui-même. Brillant psychologue et inspecteur de police, le docteur Alex Cross semble tout désigné pour entrer dans la partie. S’il n’était pas déjà engagé ailleurs : loin des quartiers huppés, à deux rues de chez lui, un nouveau boucher a fait son apparition. Entre la sécurité nationale et le salut de ses enfants, Cross va devoir faire un choix.

    Jack & Jill3
    4,0

  4. Au chat et à la souris

    • 444pages
    • 16 heures de lecture

    L'Amérique peut trembler ! Gary Soneji a réussi à s'évader. A Washington, à New York, ici, là ou ailleurs, n'importe où, n'importe quand, des innocents vont payer. Le monstre n'a plus rien à perdre. Le sida va bientôt l'emporter. Mais, avant de tirer sa révérence, Gary va se venger. De la vie, certes, mais aussi d'Alex Cross. Ce sale flic, ce sale psy qui avait osé l'arrêter ! Et, cette fois, c'est lui qui va mener le jeu. Une partie de gendarmes et voleurs inversée. Le flic changé en souris. Un vrai conte de fées ! C'est pour ça que l'affaire M. Smith, un autre monstre, un as du scalpel qui ensanglante l'Europe depuis des années, avec laquelle on le bassine, Alex Cross ne veut pas en entendre parler. Encore que, si le FBI et Interpol continuent à le solliciter...

    Au chat et à la souris4
    3,8

  5. Pop goes the weasel

    • 512pages
    • 18 heures de lecture

    In POP GOES THE WEASEL, James Patterson has created a formidable villain every reader will see in the shadows when the lights are out, a tender love story, a plot powered by relentless suspense and psychological thrills kicked up to an all-time high. 'It's all just a game, darling. I play with three other men. Their names are FAMINE, WAR and CONQUEROR. My name is DEATH. You're a very lucky girl - I'm the best player of all.' Geoffrey Shafter: a man who never loses, he is prepared to play the game of games for the highest stakes of all. Alex Cross: senior Washington, DC homicide detective, he is determined, whatever the consequences, to unmask the man he has nicknamed the weasel, the prime suspect for a spate of killings that Cross has been forbidden to investigate.

    Pop goes the weasel5
    4,0

  6. Roses are Red

    • 448pages
    • 16 heures de lecture

    The sixth novel in the Alex Cross detective seriesA series of meticulously planned bank robberies ends in murder, and detective Alex Cross must pit his wits against the bizarre and sadistic mastermind behind the crimes.

    Roses are Red6
    4,1

  7. Violets Are Blue

    • 468pages
    • 17 heures de lecture

    Two joggers have been found dead in San Francisco - bitten and hung by their feet to drain the blood. Further murders in California, and then on the East Coast as well, completely baffle Alex and the FBI. Is this the work of a cult, or role players, or even of modern-day vampires? Desperate to stop the deaths, Alex teams up with Jamilla Hughes, a savvy woman detective, and the FBI's Kyle Craig. But Alex has never been closer to defeat, or in greater danger. He must survive a deadly confrontation - only to learn at last the awful secret of the Mastermind.

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    4,0

  8. Four Blind Mice

    • 416pages
    • 15 heures de lecture

    Detective Alex Cross is on his way to resign from the Washington, D.C., police force when his partner shows up at his door with a case he can't refuse. One of John Sampson's oldest friends, from their days together in Vietnam, has been arrested for murder. Worse yet, he is subject to the iron hand of the United States Army. The evidence against him is strong enough to send hem to the gas chamber.

    Four Blind Mice8
    4,0

  9. The big bad wolf

    • 432pages
    • 16 heures de lecture

    Alex Cross battles the most ruthless and powerful killer he has ever encountered - a predator known only as "the Wolf. "Alex Cross's first case since joining the FBI has his new colleagues stymied. Across the country, men and women are being kidnapped in broad daylight and then disappearing completely. These people are not being taken for ransom, Alex realizes. They are being bought and sold. And it looks as if a shadowy figure called the Wolf - a master criminal who has brought a new reign of terror to organize crime - is behind this business in which ordinary men and women are sold as slaves. Even as he admires the FBI's vast resources, Alex grows impatient with the Bureau's clumsiness and caution when it is time to move. A lone wolf himself, he has to go out on his own in order to track the Wolf and try to rescue some of the victims while they are still alive. As the case boils over, Alex is in hot water at home too. His ex-fiancee, Christine Johnson, comes back into his life - and not for the reasons Alex might have hoped.

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    4,0

  11. Mary, Mary

    • 403pages
    • 15 heures de lecture

    FBI agent Alex Cross is on vacation when he gets a call from the Director. An actress has been shot outside her home in Beverly Hills. Afterward, an editor for the Los Angeles Times receives an e-mail recounting the murder in shocking detail, signed Mary Smith. Her calling card - The authorities fear this is only the beginning. Mary Smith is targeting Hollywood stars and power brokers, and she is getting better every time. This case is like nothing Alex has ever confronted before. Could this be the plan of an obsessed fan or a spurned actor, or is it part of something much more terrifying? And how could a woman be capable of these vicious crimes?

    Mary, Mary11
    4,0

  12. Cross

    Alex Cross was a rising star in Washington, DC, Police Department when an unknown shooter killed his wife, Maria, in front of him. Years later, having left the FBI and returned to practising psychology, Alex finally feels his life is in order... Until his former partner, John Sampson, calls in a favour. John is tracking a serial rapist in Georgetown and he needs Alex to help find this brutal predator. When the case triggers a connection to Maria's death, could Alex have a chance to catch his wife's murderer? Will this be justice at long last? Or the endgame in his own deadly obsession. From the man the Sunday Telegraph called 'the master of the suspense genre', CROSS is the ultimate, high-velocity, high-emotion thriller, and the one Alex Cross's fans waited years to read.

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    4,0

  13. Double cross

    • 320pages
    • 12 heures de lecture

    From the man the Sunday Telegraph called the 'master of the suspense genre' comes the next high-velocity thriller in the Alex Cross series - James Patterson and Alex Cross fans cannot wait to read DOUBLE CROSS. Alex Cross rejoins the DC police force to confront two of the most diabolical killers he's ever encountered. Just when Alex's life is calming down, he is drawn back into the game to confront a criminal mastermind like no other. The elaborate murders that have stunned Washington, DC, are the wildest that Alex and his new girlfriend, Detective Brianna Stone, have ever seen. This maniac adores an audience, and stages his killings as spectacles in public settings. Alex is pursuing a genius of terror who has the whole city on edge as it waits for his next move. And the killer loves the attention, no doubt - he even sets up his own website and live video feed to trumpet his madness. And in Colorado, another criminal mastermind is planning a triumphant return. From his supermaximum-security prison cell, Kyle Craig has plotted for years to have one chance at an impossible escape. If he has to join forces with DC's Audience Killer to get back at the man who put him in that cell - Alex Cross - all the better.

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    4,0

  14. Cross Country

    When Detective Alex Cross is called to investigate a massacre-style murder scene, he is shocked to find that one of the victims is an old friend. Angry, grieving, and more determined than ever, Cross begins the hunt for the perpetrators of this vicious crime. He is drawn into a dangerous underworld right in the heart of Washington DC that leads him on a life-threatening journey to the Niger Delta, where heroin dealing, slave trading and corruption are rife. At the centre of this terrifying world, Cross finds the Tiger - the psychopathic leader of a fearsome gang of killers who are not what they seem. As Cross tracks the elusive Tiger through Africa, he must battle against conspiracy and untold violence. Alex Cross is in a heart-stopping chase that takes him across a vast and uncompromising landscape and finds him not only hunting for a horrific killer, but also fighting for his own survival.

    Cross Country14
    3,7

  15. Alex Cross's trial

    From his grandmother, Alex Cross has heard the story of his great-uncle Abraham and his struggles for survival in the era of the Ku Klux Klan. Now, Alex passes the family tale along to his own children in a novel he's written - a novel called Trial. As a lawyer in early-twentieth-century Washington DC, Ben Corbett represents the toughest cases. Fighting against oppression and racism, he risks his family and his life in the process. When President Theodore Roosevelt asks Ben to return to his hometown to investigate rumours of the resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan there, he cannot refuse. Arriving in Eudora, Mississippi, Ben meets the wise Abraham Cross and his beautiful daughter, Moody. Ben enlists their help, and the two Crosses introduce him to the hidden side of the idyllic Southern town. Lynchings have become commonplace and residents of the town's black quarter live in constant fear. Ben aims to break the reign of terror - but the truth of who is really behind it could break his heart. Written in the fearless voice of Detective Alex Cross, Alex Cross's Trial is a gripping story of murder, love, and, above all, bravery.

    Alex Cross's trial15
    3,9

  16. I, Alex Cross

    • 374pages
    • 14 heures de lecture

    Determined to capture the psychopath responsible for murdering his niece, Alex Cross discovers that the young woman was among a dangerous group of people and was not the only one to have disappeared, a case that draws Alex into the heart of an underworld fantasy club, in a book by a best-selling author.

    I, Alex Cross16
    4,0

  17. Cross Fire

    • 372pages
    • 14 heures de lecture

    Wedding bells ring Detective Alex Cross and Bree's wedding plans are put on hold when Alex is called to the scene of the perfectly executed assassination of two of Washington D.C.'s most corrupt: a dirty congressmen and an underhanded lobbyist. Next, the elusive gunman begins picking off other crooked politicians, sparking a blaze of theories--is the marksman a hero or a vigilante? A murderer returns The case explodes, and the FBI assigns agent Max Siegel to the investigation. As Alex and Siegel battle over jurisdiction, the murders continue. It becomes clear that they are the work of a professional who has detailed knowledge of his victims' movements--information that only a Washington insider could possess. Caught in a lethal cross fire As Alex contends with the sniper, Siegel, and the wedding, he receives a call from his deadliest adversary, Kyle Craig. The Mastermind is in D.C. and will not relent until he has eliminated Cross and his family for good. With a supercharged blend of action, deception, and suspense, Cross Fire is James Patterson's most visceral and exciting Alex Cross novel ever.

    Cross Fire17
    4,1

  18. Uccidete Alex Cross

    Ethan et Zoe, frère et sœur, fréquentent une prestigieuse école privée de Washington, l’endroit où ils ont été vus pour la dernière fois avant leur enlèvement. Les deux enfants ont été emportés par une main mystérieuse, capable d’échapper à la surveillance du Secret Service. En effet, Ethan et Zoe ne sont pas des enfants ordinaires, mais les fils du président des États-Unis. Le détective Alex Cross est parmi les premiers à arriver sur les lieux du crime, mais il réalise rapidement que sa présence n'est pas souhaitée et que le FBI et la CIA veulent le tenir à l'écart de l'enquête, malgré la demande d'intervention de la Première Dame. Qui a enlevé Ethan et Zoe et pourquoi ? Alors que le temps presse, Cross prend une décision dramatique...

    Uccidete Alex Cross18
    3,9

  19. Merry Christmas, Alex Cross

    • 417pages
    • 15 heures de lecture

    The 19th novel in the bestselling Alex Cross seriesDetective Alex Cross is called into action on Christmas Eve - and he'll be lucky to see the New Year...Celebrating Christmas with his family, Alex Cross knows that his phone ringing means this won't be a Merry Christmas.

    Merry Christmas, Alex Cross19
    3,9

  20. Alex Cross, Run

    • 401pages
    • 15 heures de lecture

    Detective Alex Cross arrests renowned plastic surgeon Elijah Creem for sleeping with teenage girls. Now, his life ruined, Creem is out of jail, and he's made sure that no one will recognize him--by giving himself a new face. A young woman is found hanging from a sixth-floor window, and Alex is called to the scene. The victim recently gave birth, but the baby is nowhere to be found. Before Alex can begin searching for the missing newborn and killer, he's called to investigate a second crime. All of Washington, D.C., is in a panic, and when a third body is discovered, rumours of three serial killers send the city into an all-out frenzy. Alex's investigations are going nowhere, and he's too focused on the cases to notice that someone has been watching him--and will stop at nothing until he's dead. With white-hot speed, relentless drama, and hairpin turns, ALEX CROSS, RUN is James Patterson's ultimate thrill ride.

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    4,0

  21. Cross My Heart

    Alex Cross's whole world is crashing down around him. He has been hunted, stalked like prey, his predator priming himself for the kill. Cross has devoted his life to protecting others. Now he's unable to protect even those closest to him. As a police detective, he has made many enemies, but never like this. Everything he loves is being taken from him. Soon he will have nothing and no one left.

    Cross My Heart21
    4,1

  22. Hope to Die

    • 512pages
    • 18 heures de lecture

    Detective Alex Cross is being stalked by a psychotic genius, forced to play the deadliest game of his career. Cross' family - his loving wife Bree, the wise and lively Nana Mama, and his precious children - have been ripped away. Terrified and desperate, Cross must give this mad man what he wants if he has any chance of saving the most important people in his life. The stakes have never been higher: What will Cross sacrifice to save the ones he loves? Widely praised by the greatest crime and thriller writers of our time, Cross My Heart set a jaw-dropping story in motion. Hope to Die propels Alex Cross' greatest challenge to its astonishing finish, proving why Jeffery Deaver says nobody does it better than James Patterson.

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    4,2

  23. Cross Justice

    • 448pages
    • 16 heures de lecture

    The toughest cases are the ones that hit close to home. When his cousin is accused of a heinous crime, Alex Cross returns to his North Carolina hometown for the first time in over three decades. As he tries to prove his cousin's innocence in a town where everyone seems to be on the take, Cross unearths a family secret that forces him to question everything he's ever known. Chasing a ghost he believed was long dead, Cross gets pulled into a case that has local cops scratching their heads and needing his help: a grisly string of socialite murders. Now he's hot on the trail of both a brutal killer, and the truth about his own past - and the answers he finds might be fatal.

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    4,3

  24. Cross the Line

    • 400pages
    • 14 heures de lecture

    Homicide Detective Alex Cross teams up with his wife to beat a D. C. criminal at his own game. Washington, DC, has never been more dangerous. After shots pierce the tranquil nighttime calm of Rock Creek Park, a man is dead: what looks at first like road rage might be something much more sinister. But Alex has only just begun asking questions when he's called across town to investigate a new murder, one that hits close to home: his former boss and the beloved mentor of Alex's wife, Bree. Now there's a killer on the loose, a long list of possible suspects, a city in panic, and nobody in charge of the besieged police force. . . until Bree gets tapped for the job. As Bree scrambles to find her footing and close two high-profile cases, new violence stuns the capital. What should be a time for her to rely on Alex for support and cooperation is instead a moment of crisis in their marriage as well as their city when their investigative instincts clash and their relationship reaches a breaking point. And the fiendish mind behind all the violence has appointed himself judge, jury, and executioner, with a terrifying master plan he's only begun to put in motion. To beat him at his own game, Alex and Bree must take the law back into their own hands before he puts them both out of commission . . . permanently.

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    4,1

  25. The People vs Alex Cross

    Detective Alex Cross has never been on the wrong side of the law. Charged with murdering followers of his old nemesis Gary Soneji, Alex Cross becomes the poster child for trigger-happy cops. He's the only one who knows that there's a real murderer watching from the shadows, one Cross must stop - even if it means he can't save himself

    The People vs Alex Cross25
    4,1

  26. Target Alex Cross

    • 448pages
    • 16 heures de lecture

    As Chief of Detectives, Alex's wife Bree Stone faces an ultimatum: solve the case, or lose her job.TARGET: ALEX CROSSThe new President calls on Cross to lead an unparalleled FBI investigation to help capture America's most wanted criminal.

    Target Alex Cross26
    3,9

  27. Criss Cross

    • 432pages
    • 16 heures de lecture

    Could a ghost from his past take everything away from Alex Cross? Mere hours after witnessing the execution of a killer he helped put behind bars, Alex Cross is called to the scene of a copycat murder. A note signed 'M' rests on the corpse- 'You messed up big time, Dr. Cross.' Was an innocent man just put to death? As the executed convict's family launch a vicious campaign against Cross, his abilities as a detective are called into question. The enigmatic 'M' lures Cross out of Washington, DC to the sites of multiple homicides, all marked with distressingly familiar details that conjure up decades-old cases and Cross family secrets. Details that make it clear M is after a prize so dear that - were the killer to attain it - Cross's life would be destroyed

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    4,2

  28. Deadly Cross

    • 448pages
    • 16 heures de lecture

    A scandalous double homicide in the nation's capital opens the psychological case files on Detective Alex Cross. Until Kay Willingham's shocking murder inside a luxury limousine, the Georgetown socialite, philanthropist, and ex-wife of the sitting vice-president led a public life. Yet few, including her onetime psychologist, had any inkling of Kay's troubled past in the Deep South. Murdered alongside her is Randall Christopher, a respected educator whose political ambitions may have endangered both their lives. While John Sampson of DC Metro Police tracks Randall's final movements, Alex Cross and FBI Special Agent Ned Mahoney travel to Alabama to investigate Kay's early years. They discover that although Kay had many enemies, all of them needed her alive. Alex is left without a viable suspect, even as he faces a desperate choice between breaking a trust and losing his way, as a detective, and as the protector of his family

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    4,2

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