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  • Published: 4 August 2022
  • ISBN: 9781784757489
  • Imprint: Arrow
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 512
  • RRP: $22.99

Kiss the Girls

(Alex Cross 2)




Detective Alex Cross is investigating the disappearance of his own niece in the second novel in James Patterson's worldwide bestselling series

DETECTIVE ALEX CROSS'S NIECE IS MISSING

Cross fears the disappearance could be linked to a string of recent abductions and murders that are terrorising the US.

Two killers, operating on opposite sides of the country, are collaborating and competing to commit increasingly horrific crimes.

If he's to rescue his niece, Cross must hunt down these two brutal masterminds. All the while, countless lives hang in the balance.

  • Published: 4 August 2022
  • ISBN: 9781784757489
  • Imprint: Arrow
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 512
  • RRP: $22.99

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About the author

James Patterson

JAMES PATTERSON is one of the best-known and biggest-selling writers of all time. His books have sold in excess of 375 million copies worldwide. He is the author of some of the most popular series of the past two decades – the Alex Cross, Women’s Murder Club, Detective Michael Bennett and Private novels – and he has written many other number one bestsellers including romance novels and stand-alone thrillers.

James is passionate about encouraging children to read. Inspired by his own son who was a reluctant reader, he also writes a range of books for young readers, including the Middle School, I Funny, Treasure Hunters, House of Robots, Confessions, and Maximum Ride series. James has donated millions in grants to independent bookshops and has been the most borrowed author of adult fiction in UK libraries for the past eleven years in a row. He lives in Florida with his wife and son.

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Praise for Kiss the Girls

It's no mystery why James Patterson is the world's most popular thriller writer: his uncanny skill in creating living, breathing characters we truly feel for and seamless, lightning-fast plots. I do this for a living, and he still manages to keep me guessing from the first to last page ... Simply put: Nobody does it better

JEFFREY DEAVER

Behind all the noise and the numbers, we shouldn't forget that no one gets this big without amazing natural storytelling talent - which is what Jim has, in spades. The Alex Cross series proves it.

LEE CHILD, bestselling author of the Jack Reacher series

James Patterson is The Boss. End of.

IAN RANKIN, bestselling author of the Inspector Rebus series

Twenty years ago, I wrote, "Along Came a Spider is the best thriller I've come across in many a year. It deserves to be this season's no. 1 bestseller and should instantly make James Patterson a household name." A household name, indeed.

NELSON DEMILLE

Every once in a while a writer comes along and fundamentally changes the way people read. He or she is so bright, so innovative, so industrious that what they envision and create becomes the measure by which all others are judged. In 1993 one such writer - James Patterson - began to do just that ... James Patterson is the gold standard by which all others are judged.

STEVE BERRY, bestselling author of the Colton Malone series

[Alex Cross] has become one of the greatest fictional detectives of all time, a character for the ages.

DOUGLAS PRESTON and LINCOLN CHILD

Alex Cross is a legend.

HARLAN COBEN

Patterson boils a scene down to the single, telling detail, the element that defines a character or moves a plot along. It's what fires off the movie projector in the reader's mind.

MICHAEL CONNELLY

Patterson hit the ball out of the park with his last go-around, the bestselling Along Came a Spider. Kiss the Girls is even better.

DALLAS MORNING NEWS

Tough to put down... ticks like a time bomb, always full of threat and tension.

LA TIMES

A ripsnorting, terrific read

LARRY KING, USA Today

Patterson knows where our deepest fears are buried... there's no stopping his imagination.

NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW

Patterson is in a class by himself.

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