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.
Yep, Alex Cross is backâin his North Carolina hometown, where he's returned after 30-plus years to defend a cousin accused of a terrible crime. Soon, Alex is reeling from the discovery of a family secret, and if that doesn't kill him, his hunt for the brutal murderer of several local socialites might. With an 800,000-copy first printing.
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