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Fans of James
Patterson's resourceful cop Alex
Cross will be relieved to find that he's back on familiar territory with Violets
Are Blue--and, more importantly, that this is one of the best Alex
Cross thrillers yet.
The malign criminal genius of Roses Are Red is fixing to give
Alex a hard time once again. The FBI joins Patterson's dogged cop in a
particularly unsettling investigation: two San Francisco joggers have been
viciously murdered and are found suspended by their feet, with all the
blood drained from their corpses.
And when further brutal deaths follow in California and on the East
Coast, Alex is forced to contemplate the bizarre possibility of modern-day
vampires, although his instincts point him to one of the many sinister
religious cults that flourish on the West Coast. Aided by Jamilla Hughes, a streetwise young woman detective from San
Francisco, Alex finds that he has to crack not one but two impenetrable
mysteries to stop further bloodletting. Patterson fans expect the extremely concise, page-turning chapters
(116 of them here!), along with a reluctance to dawdle over details of his
hero's personal life, and both characteristics are firmly back in place.
If you can resist reading this one in just a few sittings, you deserve
some kind of a thriller reader's medal. --Barry Forshaw, Amazon.co.uk
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