Violets are Blue

2001 (2002 Paperback)/Fiction-Mystery, Publisher: Warner Vision (Warner Books)
By James Patterson. 391 pgs.
Overview: B&N, Amazon, Wiki, MC
Alex Cross has never believed in vampires. But when two joggers are found slain in a manner that suggests a macabre ritual, he has to reconsider. At the same time, a lethal super-criminal from Cross's past known as the Mastermind is stalking him, taunting him, and threatening everything he holds dear. (B&N)
Review: C- (2.3.07) This is the seventh book featuring the Washington DC homicide detective and forensic psychiatrist Alex Cross, and if you read Roses are Red, all you really want to read begins on page 319. The vampire case is moderate at best and doesn't really pick up till passed the hallfway point...if it captivated any level of interest. The stories really were kinda so so, but Alex Cross' character is written pretty good. It is too bad the story is not as strong as the character. In the back, the book also contains an additional page with a crossword puzzle, and eight pages of Four Blind Mice.