* EmbarrassingNickname: Although the embarrassing part is debatable, Sampson calls Cross "sugar".
* ExtrudedBookProduct
* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler:Kyle Craig.]]
* FreudianExcuse: Some of his villains have very painful reasons for what they do. Examples include:
** Gary Murphy/Soneji: [[spoiler:he was abused by his father and stepmother when he was young.]]
** TheButcher from ''Cross'': [[spoiler:his father molested him.]]
* GoryDiscretionShot: It's not uncommon for a chapter to end vaguely hinting at what has taken place. A particularly disturbing example from ''I, Alex Cross'' when the BigBad, Zeus, visits the sex club that he frequents and takes two girls to his private room. After binding and gagging the two girls, [[spoiler:he pulls out a taser gun and a pair of pliers]] before the chapter ends.
* IncrediblyLamePun: (In ''Cat and Mouse'' [[spoiler:Mr. Smith "pierced" Isabella's heart.]])
* HeterosexualLifePartners: Cross and Sampson
* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: At first children's rhymes, now with "cross" in the title. Still, if you can have a murder mystery titled ''Double Cross'', you should.
* TheLastDance: In ''Cat and Mouse,'' Gary Soneji, now dying of [=AIDS=], goes on one last frenzied rampage, killing everyone he feels the need to and dead set on murdering Cross.
* MadnessMantra: In ''Cat and Mouse'', [[spoiler:I MURDERED ISABELLA CALAIS. AND I CAN'T STOP THE KILLING. The first sentence is spelled out in his victims' initials. The second would have been.]]

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* '''Alex Cross''' - A detective in UsefulNotes/WashingtonDC. Three novels have been adapted for the big screen- ''Along Came A Spider'', ''KissTheGirls'' (where the character was played by MorganFreeman) and ''Film/AlexCross'' (based on ''Cross'' where he is played by TylerPerry) .
* '''Women's Murder Club''' - A detective, an ME, a DA and crime reporter. TheyFightCrime. Was adapted as a TV series in 2007, it lasted one season.
* '''Michael Bennett''' - A widowed detective in NewYorkCity. With ten kids. Adopted, naturally.
* '''Literature/MaximumRide''' - A teen science-fiction series with human-avian hybrids.
* '''WitchAndWizard''' - A teen fantasy series about fugitive magic users.
* '''[[TheDangerousDaysofDanielX Daniel X]]''' - A teen science-fiction series about a teenage alien bounty hunter.
* The '''Middle School''' Series - SliceOfLife part-illustrated novels, recently expanded into two subseries, ''I Funny'' having a different protagonist (Jamie Grimm) and cast than the Rafe Khatchadorian ones.

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* ''Alex Cross'' - A detective in UsefulNotes/WashingtonDC. Three novels have been adapted for the big screen- ''Along Came A Spider'', ''KissTheGirls'' (where the character was played by MorganFreeman) and ''Film/AlexCross'' (based on ''Cross'' where he is played by TylerPerry) .
* ''Women's Murder Club'' - A detective, an ME, a DA and crime reporter. TheyFightCrime. Was adapted as a TV series in 2007, it lasted one season.
* ''Michael Bennett'' - A widowed detective in NewYorkCity. With ten kids. Adopted, naturally.
* ''Literature/MaximumRide'' - A teen science-fiction series with human-avian hybrids.
* ''Literature/WitchAndWizard'' - A teen fantasy series about fugitive magic users.
* ''[[TheDangerousDaysofDanielX Daniel X]]'' - A teen science-fiction series about a teenage alien bounty hunter.
* The ''Middle School'' Series - SliceOfLife part-illustrated novels, recently expanded into two subseries, ''I Funny'' having a different protagonist (Jamie Grimm) and cast than the Rafe Khatchadorian ones.

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