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would have given 6 stars if I could!
It seems like James Patterson has remembered how to write a good mystery thriller. I had lost faith in him with "Four Blind Mice" but the last three novels, including this one, have been very well written indeed. "Double Cross" has our hero, Alex Cross, out of the police/detective scene altogether when he is dragged back in by a mysterious serial killer called the Audience Killer (he enjoys killing people in front of an audience). The murders are outrageous and public, and the killer wants Alex Cross to be part of the investigation. I think if I was a serial killer, I would not want the most famous cop in the area on my tail, but I can see why a deranged maniac would. Cross is often left twisting in the wind as the DCAK (throughout the book, D.C.'s Audience Killer gets made into an acronym) is always one, if not two steps ahead. Patterson then reintroduces Kyle Craig, the Mastermind and former Cross antagonist, into the mix complicating matters for the police and especially Cross. The ending is satisfying, but there is enough there to predict a rematch or two for Cross and at least one of the killers who remain at large. You'll have to read it to find out who.