Imagined crossover · Forensics and profilers
What if Tony Hill met Alex Cross?
The profilers. Two clinical minds who understand killers by thinking like them, at some cost to themselves.
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The pair
Tony HillClinical psychologist and offender profilerBy Val McDermid · Tony Hill and Carol Jordan · first in The Mermaids Singing
Alex CrossWashington DC detective and forensic psychologistBy James Patterson · Alex Cross · first in Along Came a Spider
Chemistry8/10
Friction4/10
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Where and when
Quantico, Virginia
The 2000s
The story
- How they might meet
- At an FBI conference on serial offenders, a British psychologist and a Washington detective realise they are hunting the same killer.
- Why they would work
- Two clinical minds who understand killers by thinking like them, at some cost to themselves.
- What each brings
- Tony has an uncanny empathy for the minds of killers. Alex brings a detective’s experience and the FBI’s resources.
- Where they would clash
- Alex is a family man with a firm moral compass; Tony is awkward, isolated and not always easy to trust.
Strengths compared
Tony Hill Alex Cross
Our own ratings out of 10, for fun.
On the page together
The years in which each character's books were published.
Read your way in
Start with each character's first appearance.
- The Mermaids SingingVal McDermid · 1995 · Tony Hill's first appearanceBuy on Amazon
- Along Came a SpiderJames Patterson · 1993 · Alex Cross's first appearanceBuy on Amazon
