James Patterson: Mary, Mary

A serial killer was out there killing the elite, the rich and famous. But is the killer really a woman going by the name of Mary Smith or is it a man who's targeting the victims? No one knows for sure but Alex Cross doesn't believe the killer is a woman.

But through all of this, Alex Cross was on vacation, and having to deal with a major custody hassle with Christine about Alex Jr. Things move along and they catch up to a woman named Mary Wagner. But is Ms Wagner the one they want? Alex doesn't believe so.

But some things in Mary's past has him thinking. He goes to where Mary had grown up, to where she'd married and given birth to children, and where she'd killed those same children... Where she'd served her time at Vermont area Mental institution for the criminally insane, and there he found out that she'd had visitors for about six weeks in a time about three years before she escaped. And one of those visitors was the husband of one of the victims...

Anyway, you have to read the book...

James Patterson - Roses are Red

Meet Doctor Alex Cross, a family man and police officer as well as an adviser to the FBI. A case starts out with the robbery of a bank and the murder of the bank manager's family. This continues, but as each bank is robbed, there are fewer and fewer killings. Unless you count the Mastermind's killing of his bank robbing crews...

What's more, he'd found a way to kill not one, not two, but three FBI agents. But how does this one do it? How is it that he hasn't been caught? When Alex Cross is still there, trying to find out who this guy is, the man just happens to be one of Dr. Cross's best friends, but shhhh, don't tell him that.