The Family Cross: An Alex Cross Thriller
A body under a Washington overpass pulls Alex Cross toward a promise he made at home.
The latest Alex Cross case starts with a burned body and a family watching.
Penguin presents The Family Cross as the latest Alex Cross thriller, and opens it on a worry that is already in the house.
An editorial introduction to the book, its premise and the story surrounding it.
Nana Mama is proud of the man she raised. The publisher says that does not stop her worrying.
Penguin’s series page describes Cross as a psychologist who hunts criminals for the FBI and the DC Metro Police. In this book, a man is found shot and burned beneath an overpass, and Cross is pulled into the investigation. The stakes, as the copy frames them, are the promise he made to be careful, and the chance that the case puts the Cross family in the line of fire.
A series that still begins at home
Alex Cross books have long used the household — Nana Mama, the children, the work he brings back — as the counterweight to the case. The Family Cross makes that counterweight the title. The Prime Video series has widened the audience, but the novel’s published premise is still a Washington murder and a family that knows the cost of the job.
Where the introduction stops
The useful fact is the opening crime and the domestic risk. This feature does not follow the investigation past that door.
Other thrillers are in Book Reviews.
About the book.
Penguin says the novel is part of the Alex Cross series and notes a 2026 publication. David Ellis is the co-author on the queue title. This feature stays with the setup.
This article is presented as a MarketAnyBook Book Feature based on supplied materials and verified public information. It is not presented as a full-book review.
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