Alex Cross's Trial Trivia

James Patterson got interested in writing the book when he thought of an unusual way of telling it: Alex Cross, a fictional character in his own right, is the "author" of the book.
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One of the things that's different about this book for Patterson is that he was able to put in some family history for Alex Cross. Most of his books are crime-detective types, and he wanted to keep that genre in the mix but also switch it up a bit.
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This book is Patterson's wife's favorite of his works, which is really saying something since he's written more than 95 novels.
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Patterson was the first person to sell over one million eBooks, a feat that landed him in the Guinness Book of World Records.
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The character Alex Cross actually started out as a woman when Patterson first began writing about him…er, her…er, him.
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