The first novel in James Patterson’s Alex Cross series came out in 1993, followed by 34 more books in the years since, about a Washington, D.C., police detective with a Ph.D. in forensic psychology.

When it first hit bookshops back in 1993, no one seemed to pay much attention to the seemingly run-of-the-mill crime novel.

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