Publisher's Synopsis
FBI agent Alex Cross gets the call that a famous actress has been shot outside her home in Beverly Hills. Then, an editor for the Los Angeles Times receives an e-mail describing the murder in detail and signed Mary Smith. More killings follow with e-mails immediately after. Mary Smith is targeting Hollywood stars and getting better each time...Is this the plan of an obsessed fan or a spurned actor, or something more frightening? Hollywood's elite fear inclusion on Mary's list and the case assumes blockbuster proportions as the LAPD and FBI scramble to find a pattern before Mary can send one more chilling update.
