Lynchings have become commonplace and residents of the town's black quarter live in constant fear. Ben enlists their help, and the two Crosses introduce him to the hidden side of the idyllic Southern town. When he arrives in Eudora, Mississippi, Ben meets the wise Abraham Cross and his beautiful granddaughter, Moody. When President Roosevelt asks Ben to return to his home town to investigate rumors of the resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan there, he cannot refuse. Fighting against oppression and racism, he risks his family and his life in the process. Now, Alex passes the family tale along to his own children in a novel he's written-a novel called Trial.Īs a lawyer in turn-of-the-century Washington D.C., Ben Corbett represents the toughest cases.
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Written in the fearless voice of Detective Alex Cross, Alex Cross's Trial is a #1 New York Times bestseller of murder, love, and above all, bravery.įrom his grandmother, Alex Cross has heard the story of his great uncle Abraham and his struggles for survival in the era of the Ku Klux Klan. Alex Cross will need to use all his skills as a doctor, a detective, and a family man to prevent that resistance from turning lethal. The harder the investigators push, the more resistance they find when they leave behind the polite law offices and doctors' quarters of the state capital. Kay had many enemies, but all of them seemed to need her alive. There they find a world of trouble, corruption, and secrets, all of them closed to outsiders like Cross and Mahoney. They travel to Alabama to investigate Kay's early years. While John Sampson of DC Metro Police investigates the last movements of Christopher Randall, the educator killed along with Kay Willingham, detective Alex Cross and FBI special agent Ned Mahoney find unanswered questions from Willingham's past, before she arrived in DC and became known in DC society as someone who could make things happen. So why was she parked in a Bentley convertible idling behind a DC private school, in the middle of the night, with the man who was the head of that school? Who shot them both, point blank, and why? The shocking double homicide is blazed across the internet, TV, newspapers-and across Alex Cross's mind. Kay Willingham led a life as glamorous as it was public-she was a gorgeous Georgetown socialite, philanthropist, and the ex-wife of the vice president. The murder of a glamorous DC socialite becomes Alex Cross’s deadliest case since Along Came a Spider. Recommendations from the African Diaspora.Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Arrow Icon Arrow icon.Little, Brown and Company Arrow Icon Arrow icon.
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