Alex Cross was never looking for love and relation after the death of his wife but he has been lucky in the case of girls. One girl and then another has continued entering his life which keeps the romantic side of the man warm. He is not the lover boy kind of a man because he is always interested in his cases and getting to the criminals is his passion.
Still, the girls like his cool personality and they just keep waiting for his gestures around the corner ready to get trapped in the web of his relationship. More murders come to the scene in the city where Alex is providing therapy service to the general public. Brianna Stone i.e Alex’s new side kick starts helping him in the case full of murders.
Brianna is Alex’s girlfriend too so they are naturally quite attached to one another. James Patterson through these girlfriends or female characters in the novel keeps the emotions alive just like Roses Are Red and Violets Are Blue. Alex never loses his mind because of this company; this novel takes Alex closer to a killer who likes to perform the killing like a fancy dress party.
The killer tries to gather more and more people to the spot so that his fame can be enhanced. In this way, he wants to be treated like a celebrity. But the same thing becomes his weakness when Alex starts planning to take him down. Peter J. Fernandez and Michael Stuhlbarg narrate love, action, and suspense scenes in different pitches as they try to settle their voices in every portion.
