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How long does it take to read Mary, Mary?

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James Patterson

Mary, Mary by James Patterson takes about 7 hours 38 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

Book 11 of Alex Cross

Previous: London Bridges Next: Cross

About 7 hours 38 minutes

A weekend read

First published 1857. 416 pages, about 114,400 words.

16 days at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 12 hours 43 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 7 hours 38 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 4 hours 46 minutes

The page count is the median across 34 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

FBI Agent Alex Cross is on vacation with his family in Disneyland when he gets a call from the Director. A well-known actress was shot outside her home in Beverly Hills. Shortly afterward, an editor for the Los Angeles Times receives an e-mail describing the murder in vivid details. Alex quickly learns that this is not an isolated incident. The killer, known as Mary Smith, has done this before and plans to kill again.Right from the beginning, this case is like nothing Alex has ever been confronted with before. Is this the plan of an obsessed fan or a spurned actor, or is it part of something much more frightening? Now members of Hollywood's A-list fear they're next on Mary's list, and the case grows by blockbuster proportions as the LAPD and FBI scramble to find a pattern before Mary can send one more chilling update.

Subjects: Fiction, Actresses, African American psychologists, Serial murders, Government investigators, Crimes against

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