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James Patterson, author of The House of Cross: An Alex Cross Thriller

In Washington, DC, the president-elect is planning her inauguration. The list of Supreme Court candidates is highly confidential --- until it becomes evidence in Detective Alex Cross’ toughest investigation. One candidate is gunned down. A second is stabbed. A third is murdered near midnight on a city street. Cross is the FBI’s top expert in criminal behavior. For the sake of his family, his city and his country, he must put himself in the most dangerous place there is: inside the mind of a diabolical killer.

Week of September 15, 2025

Paperback releases for the week of September 15th include THE AUTHOR’S GUIDE TO MURDER by Beatriz Williams, Lauren Willig and Karen White, a locked-room whodunit in which three very different American novelists become prime suspects when a famous writer is found dead in the book-lined study of a remote Scottish castle; Rumaan Alam's ENTITLEMENTa riveting tale for our new gilded age --- a story that confidently considers questions about need and worth, race and privilege, philanthropy and generosity, passion and obsession; KEEPING THE FAITH by Brenda Wineapple, the dramatic story of the 1925 Scopes trial, which captivated the nation and exposed profound divisions in America that still resonate today; and the paperback original MIDNIGHT BURNING, Paul Levine's gripping thriller featuring Albert Einstein and Charlie Chaplin, who are determined to thwart a Nazi scheme involving an armed insurrection and the assassinations of Hollywood's biggest stars.