Detective Alex Cross

Cross is a family man before all else. He loves his children and his grandmother, who is like a mother to him. He also loves Naomi, his niece, as though she were his own daughter. Cross is no normal detective. He has a Ph.D. in Psychology and is something of a serial killer profiler specialist. He caught a killer named Gary Soneji some years earlier and gained a bit of fame by writing a book about the experience. Cross is an African-American man of indeterminate age. He is likely in his mid- to late-30s. He is old enough to have attained his educational level and have two young children, but young enough to still be attractive to 30-year-old Kate.

As much as he would like to fall in love with Kate, he has trouble with a new relationship. He was permanently scarred by the...