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Return of the Spider

(2025)
(Book 33 in the Alex Cross series)
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An instant New York Times bestseller!

Return of the Spider is the stunning companion novel to Along Came a Spider, the New York Times bestselling classic thriller from the world’s most popular storyteller.

Enter the thrilling world of the #1 bestselling detective series that inspired the Prime Video show, Cross.

Along Came a Spider introduced Detective Alex Cross to readers around the globe and delivered an unsurpassed rivalry: Cross—named the ‘human superhero’ by The New York Times—versus Gary Soneji, who the Lexington-Herald Leader called the ‘most deliciously wicked character since Hannibal Lecter’. But that wasn’t their first meeting ...

Police discover that Soneji kept a murder book, Profiles in Homicidal Genius, detailing his transformation from substitute teacher to hardened serial killer—including clues that imply missteps that Alex Cross may have made a rookie homicide detective.

Now, Alex must retrace the steps of that long-ago investigation and face ... the
Return of the Spider.

‘Patterson knows how to sell thrills and suspense.’ —People, on Along Came a Spider


Genre: Thriller

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