Along Came a Spider

I would give 3.5 if I could. The book is obviously well written, and I loved that Alex Cross, for all his intelligence, is not excessive like a movie character (where the heroes cannot compromise on anything and are always the smartest guys in the room). That made everything more relatable to how a regular person mind works. The story is complex enough and not sugar coated but also not excessively bleak. The clean storyline was well suited to a movie adaptation.