Cross Fire by James Patterson

As I was reading this book I felt that the writting style was similar to the previous book I had read, Alex Cross's trial, but I did not think anything of it, and now that I am adding it to this list, I realise that it is the same author. Call me silly.
Anyway, this seems to be a book in a series following a black Washington detective and his stalker killer. Nice enough read, but it does require a very flexible imagination or at least one that will allow reality to be stretched a bit. 4/10

Alex Cross's trial by James Patterson

Deep South 1906. A young lawyer from Washington is sent to investigate reports of lynchings down south. It is an interesting book in showing the attitudes prevalent at the time and well into the rest of the 20th century in parts of the South towards blacks and how cheap their lives were.
A touching book which looks on at the helplesness of the situation.