Return of the Spider - James Patterson

Return of the Spider

By James Patterson

  • Release Date: 2025-11-17
  • Genre: Police Procedural
Score: 4
4
From 102 Ratings

Description

Return of the Spider is the stunning companion novel to Along Came a Spider, the New York Times bestselling classic thriller from the world’s most popular storyteller.

Enter the thrilling world of the #1 bestselling detective series that inspired the Prime Video show, Cross.

Along Came a Spider introduced Detective Alex Cross to readers around the globe and delivered an unsurpassed rivalry: Cross—named the “human superhero” by The New York Times—versus Gary Soneji, who the Lexington-Herald Leader called the “most deliciously wicked character since Hannibal Lecter”. But that wasn’t their first meeting ...

Police discover that Soneji kept a murder book, Profiles in Homicidal Genius, detailing his transformation from substitute teacher to hardened serial killer—including clues that imply missteps that Alex Cross may have made a rookie homicide detective.

Now, Alex must retrace the steps of that long-ago investigation and face ... the Return of the Spider.

“Patterson knows how to sell thrills and suspense.” —People, on Along Came a Spider

Reviews

  • Don’t waste you time

    1
    By a thankful teader
    This was a total fraud, attempting to draw prior readers who enjoyed prior Spider books to a poorly thought out and copycat book that focused on prior subjects. Don’t waste your time and money!
  • Boring

    1
    By MarkWhiteLotus
    Another back to the future story, squeezing more $ out of past story lines instead of making up new stories.
  • Easy reading

    5
    By awesoe sauce
    Always an easy and fun read . Love the characters and the updates of the it lives in fiction