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Authors: James Patterson

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Jack & Jill

Kiss the Girls

Along Came a Spider

The Women’s Murder Club

10th Anniversary
(with Maxine Paetro)

The 9th Judgment
(with Maxine Paetro)

The 8th Confession
(with Maxine Paetro)

7th Heaven
(with Maxine Paetro)

The 6th Target
(with Maxine Paetro)

The 5th Horseman
(with Maxine Paetro)

4th of July
(with Maxine Paetro)

3rd Degree
(with Andrew Gross)

2nd Chance
(with Andrew Gross)

1st to Die

Featuring Michael Bennett

Tick Tock
(with Michael Ledwidge)

Worst Case
(with Michael Ledwidge)

Run for Your Life
(with Michael Ledwidge)

Step on a Crack
(with Michael Ledwidge)

Other Books

The Christmas Wedding
(with Richard DiLallo)

Kill Me If You Can
(with Marshall Karp)

Now You See Her
(with Michael Ledwidge)

Toys
(with Neil McMahon)

Don’t Blink
(with Howard Roughan)

The Postcard Killers
(with Liza Marklund)

Private
(with Maxine Paetro)

The Murder of King Tut
(with Martin Dugard)

Swimsuit
(with Maxine Paetro)

Against Medical Advice
(with Hal Friedman)

Sail
(with Howard Roughan)

Sundays at Tiffany’s
(with Gabrielle Charbonnet)

You’ve Been Warned
(with Howard Roughan)

The Quickie
(with Michael Ledwidge)

Judge & Jury
(with Andrew Gross)

Beach Road
(with Peter de Jonge)

Lifeguard
(with Andrew Gross)

Honeymoon
(with Howard Roughan)

Sam’s Letters to Jennifer

The Lake House

The Jester
(with Andrew Gross)

The Beach House
(with Peter de Jonge)

Suzanne’s Diary for Nicholas

Cradle and All

When the Wind Blows

Miracle on the 17th Green
(with Peter de Jonge)

Hide & Seek

The Midnight Club

Black Friday
(originally published as
Black Market
)

See How They Run
(originally published as
The Jericho Commandment
)

Season of the Machete

The Thomas Berryman Number

For Readers of All Ages

Witch & Wizard: The Manga, Vol. 1
(with Svetlana Chmakova)

Daniel X: Game Over
(with Ned Rust)

Daniel X: The Manga, Vol. 2
(with SeungHui Kye)

Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life
(with Chris Tebbetts, illustrated by Laura Park)

Maximum Ride: The Manga, Vol. 4
(with NaRae Lee)

ANGEL: A Maximum Ride Novel

Witch & Wizard: The Gift
(with Ned Rust)

Daniel X: The Manga, Vol. 1
(with SeungHui Kye)

Maximum Ride: The Manga, Vol. 3
(with NaRae Lee)

Daniel X: Demons and Druids
(with Adam Sadler)

Med Head
[
Against Medical Advice
teen edition] (with Hal Friedman)

FANG: A Maximum Ride Novel

Witch & Wizard
(with Gabrielle Charbonnet)

Maximum Ride: The Manga, Vol. 2
(with NaRae Lee)

Daniel X: Watch the Skies
(with Ned Rust)

MAX: A Maximum Ride Novel

Maximum Ride: The Manga, Vol. 1
(with NaRae Lee)

Daniel X: Alien Hunter
(graphic novel; with Leopoldo Gout)

The Dangerous Days of Daniel X
(with Michael Ledwidge)

Maximum Ride: The Final Warning

Maximum Ride: Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports

Maximum Ride: School’s Out—Forever

Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment

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Contents

Front Cover Image

Welcome

Dedication

Prologue

I

II

Book One: THE JANE DOE MURDERS

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

Chapter 14

Chapter 15

Chapter 16

Chapter 17

Chapter 18

Chapter 19

Chapter 20

Chapter 21

Chapter 22

Chapter 23

Book Two: DEATH RIDES A PALE HORSE

Chapter 24

Chapter 25

Chapter 26

Chapter 27

Chapter 28

Chapter 29

Chapter 30

Chapter 31

Chapter 32

Chapter 33

Chapter 34

Chapter 35

Chapter 36

Chapter 37

Chapter 38

Chapter 39

Chapter 40

Chapter 41

Chapter 42

Chapter 43

Chapter 44

Chapter 45

Book Three: ELEGY

Chapter 46

Chapter 47

Chapter 48

Chapter 49

Chapter 50

Chapter 51

Chapter 52

Chapter 53

Chapter 54

Chapter 55

Chapter 56

Chapter 57

Chapter 58

Chapter 59

Chapter 60

Chapter 61

Chapter 62

Chapter 63

Chapter 64

Chapter 65

Chapter 66

Chapter 67

Chapter 68

Chapter 69

Chapter 70

Chapter 71

Chapter 72

Chapter 73

Chapter 74

Chapter 75

Chapter 76

Chapter 77

Book Four: TRIAL AND ERRORS

Chapter 78

Chapter 79

Chapter 80

Chapter 81

Chapter 82

Chapter 83

Chapter 84

Chapter 85

Chapter 86

Chapter 87

Chapter 88

Chapter 89

Chapter 90

Chapter 91

Chapter 92

Chapter 93

Chapter 94

Chapter 95

Chapter 96

Chapter 97

Chapter 98

Chapter 99

Chapter 100

Chapter 101

Book Five: ENDGAME

Chapter 102

Chapter 103

Chapter 104

Chapter 105

Chapter 106

Chapter 107

Chapter 108

Chapter 109

Chapter 110

Chapter 111

Chapter 112

Chapter 113

Chapter 114

Chapter 115

Chapter 116

Chapter 117

Chapter 118

Chapter 119

Chapter 120

Chapter 121

Chapter 122

Chapter 123

Epilogue: LONDON BRIDGES, FALLING

Chapter 124

A Preview of
Roses Are Red

A Preview of
Kill Alex Cross

About the Author

Books by James Patterson

Copyright

Copyright

The characters and events in this book are fictitious. Any similarity to real persons, living or dead, is coincidental and not intended by the author.

Copyright © 1999 by James Patterson

Excerpt from
Roses Are Red
copyright © 2000 by James Patterson

Excerpt from
Kill Alex Cross
copyright © 2011 by James Patterson

Author photograph by Deborah Feingold

Cover copyright © by Hachette Book Group, Inc.

All rights reserved. Except as permitted under the U.S. Copyright Act of 1976, no part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, or stored in a database or retrieval system, without the prior written permission of the publisher.

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