How long does it take to read Cross My Heart?
Cross My Heart by James Patterson takes about 7 hours 55 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 21 of Alex Cross
Previous: Alex Cross, Run Next: Hope to Die
About 7 hours 55 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2013. 432 pages, about 118,800 words.
16 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 13 hours 12 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 7 hours 55 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 57 minutes |
The page count is the median across 19 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
"James Patterson raises the stakes to their highest level, ever-when Alex Cross becomes the obsession of a genius of menace set on proving that he is the greatest mind in the history of crime. Detective Alex Cross is a family man at heart--nothing matters more to him than his children, his grandmother, and his wife Bree. His love of his family is his anchor, and gives him the strength to confront evil in his work. One man knows this deeply, and uses Alex's strength as a weapon against him in the most unsettling and unexpected novel of James Patterson's career. When the ones Cross loves are in danger, he will do anything to protect them. If he does anything to protect them, they will die. CROSS MY HEART is the most powerful Alex Cross novel ever, propelled by the ever-ingenious mind of James Patterson, the world's #1 bestselling writer"--
Subjects: FICTION / Thrillers, Roman, FICTION / Suspense, African American detectives, Amerikanisches Englisch, Alex Cross (Fictitious character)