james heekin

A specialist in interrogation with the FBI.

Characters

Alex Cross

The main character, a homicide detective. Deputy Chief of Detectives and in his mid 30s in Along Came a Spider. Has a doctorate in psychology. Works and lives in the ghettos of Washington DC. Smart and observant, hard-working, and black. Has 2 children, D...
Gary Soneji

In "Along Came a Spider," he is a teacher of math and computer science at Washington Day School. Balding with a droopy moustache. Popular with students. Nickname Mr. Chips. Smart with an ego.more...
Kyle Craig

An FBI Special Agent. Becomes one of Alex Crosss go-to people at the FBI. He works at their facilities in Quantico, Virginia.more...
Regina Nana Mama Cross

Alex Crosss grandmother. About 80. She lives at his house, and generally rules the roost. Lovable but feisty. Raised Alex since he was 8.more...
Kate Mctiernan

A leading character in Kiss the Girls. First names: Katelya Margaret. A 1st year intern doctor at N. Carolina University Hospital. Stunning beauty. 30. Strong-willed. Rents a room from a widow in Durham. Her recent boyfriend was History Professor Peter Mc...
Jezzie Flanagan

We meet her in Along Came a Spider. The first female supervisor of the Secret Service. Blond, rides a motorcycle. Agents under her include Victor Schmidt, Charlie Chakely, Jeb Klepner. and Mike Devine. Lives in Arlington Virginia with her mother. Divorced...
John Sampson

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Casanova (kiss The Girls)

At one point this young man was living inside the walls of a familys beach house in Florida while in high school. Tall and thin. Considers himself handsome. Later we see him as self-assured, possessive, and misogynistic. Hes wanted in the Amer...
Michael And Hannah Pierce

They live in a 15 room home on the beach in Boca Raton, Florida. Two daughters, Coty about 15 or 16, and Karrie, 13....
The Gentleman Caller

We first meet him doing his thing in the Chapel Hill area of North Carolina. Then in L.A. Hes flamboyant and attention seeking.more...
Rita Washington

A young woman in the Langley projects near Alex Crosss home. Drug user. more...
Marcus Daniels

Eleven. Lives down Fifth Avenue from Cross. Alex finds him bleeding badly....
Naomi Scootchie Cross

Alexs niece. 22. Attending Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. Smart. Taking law. The daughter of Alexs brother Aaron and his wife Cilla. Known as Aunty Scootch to Damon and Jannie. Attractive. Her friend is Mary Ellen Klouk. She has a ...
Detective Nick Ruskin

A detective in Durham, NC. Tall and dresses well....
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (goodreads)

A real person. 1841-1935. Justice of the US Supreme Court from 1902 to 1932. Legal scholar. On free speech, he said that "[it] does not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theatre and causing a panic."more...
Alice Walker (kiss The Girls)

A real person. (1944- ) American writer and activist. The first African - American woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for fiction....
Detective Davey Sikes

A detective in Durham, NC. Well built. Nick Ruskins sidekick.more...
Joyce Kinney

A Special Agent with the FBI from Chicago. In charge of the case in Durham. Heavyset and unpleasant....
Betty-anne Ryerson

A possible victim in Durham. Mother of two. Gorgeous....
Ronald Burns

Deputy Director of the FBI. Known as a big-time cage rattler....
Dean Browning Lowell

Dean of women at Duke. Hes a friend of Naomi Cross.more...
Florence Campbell

A law student at Duke. Black in her early 20s. Tall. Knows Naomi....
Frantz Fanon (kiss The Girls)

A real person. 1925-1961. From Martinique in the French West Indies. A leading philosopher and author on post colonialism and Marxism....
Andy Hardy (kiss The Girls)

A fictional character. From American cinema. Between 1937 and 1946 Mickey Rooney starred in 16 films about Andy Hardys late teenage and young adult family life.more...
Maria Jane Capaldi Kristen Miles Melissa Stanfield And Christa Akers

Other young women caught in terrible circumstances....
Beth Lieberman

A 29 year-old reporter with the L.A. Times. Shes just encountered the most important story of her career. The editor-in-chief at the paper is Dan Hills.more...
Sunny Ozawa

A 14-year-old Japanese American murder victim in L.A....
Richard Ramirez Caryl Chessman And Charles Manson (goodreads)

Real people. All infamous American kidnappers and / or serial killers in California - Ramirez (1960-2013), Chessman (1921-1960), and Manson (1934-2017)....
Anna Miller And Chris Chapin

An engaged couple who met in law school at North Carolina State. Hes now an associate in a law firm. Shes a sexy and confident young woman in 3rd year law school.more...
Dr. Maria Ruocco

A doctor with the FBI. No-nonsense but attractive in her late 30s....
Dr. William Rudolph

Will works at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. Strikingly handsome. Early 30s....
John Asaro And Raymond Cosgrove

Two FBI Agents in L.A. on stakeout....
Leopold And Loeb (goodreads)

Real people. Nathan Leopold, 1904-1971, and Richard Alan Loeb, 1905-1936, were students at University in Chicago. They kidnapped and murdered 14-year-old Bobby Franks in 1924. The two got life + 99 years, not the death penalty, partly as a result of Clare...
A Young Woman At Nepenthe

Dr. Rudolph meets a lovely young blond woman at Nepenthe restaurant and café on the coast road near Big Sur on the Pacific....
Phil Becton

The FBIs suspect profiler. Hes headquartered in Seattle.more...
Dr. Wick Sachs

A doctor in Durham, NC. Married with two young children. Lives in a lovely home in an upscale area....
Juliette Montgomery

Juliette and her husband live in Stoneman Lake, Arizona. Shes about 26.more...
Satchel Paige (kiss The Girls)

A real person. 1906-1982. A professional baseball player who first pitched in the Negro leagues and then MLB from 1948 to 1965. Last pitched just before turning 60. In Cooperstown, the Baseball Hall of Fame....
Suzanne Wellsley

A professor in the English Department at UNC. In her late 30s. Knows Dr. Sachs....
Roe Tierney And Thomas Hutchinson

Two lovers, and students, at UNC who were murdered in 1981. They like rowing....
Dr. Louis Freed

A mentor of Naomis friend, Seth Samuel. In his late 70s. Freed is a noted black historian. Specialty? The American Civil War, blacks, and slavery.more...
James Heekin

A specialist in interrogation with the FBI....
Roddie Hatfield

Chief of Police in Durham, NC. Early 40s. Looks like a former pro football quarterback....
E. D. Genovese

A real person. 1930-2012. Noted historian on the American south and slavery....
Dr. Livingstone (kiss The Girls)

A real person. 1813-1873. David Livingstone was a Christian missionary from Scotland who was also an explorer in central Africa. Famous for the meeting with Stanley....