Years after his wife is gunned down by an unknown shooter, a crime that has never been solved, psychologist Alex Cross is called in by his former partner who wants his help on a case that reveals a connection to his wife's death

Believing he is investigating the work of a horrible new breed of killer when he encounters a murder scene of particular violence at the home of his oldest friend, Detective Alex Cross finds himself entangled in the deadly Nigerian underworld of Washington, D.C

At the outset of his career with the FBI, Alex Cross is instructed to track down a band of kidnappers who are snatching people and possibly selling them into slavery, a case that is complicated by a terrible threat to Cross's own family

Staying true to his commitment-phobic ways, an african american psychotherapist engages in a no-strings-attached relationship with a photographer before realizing that he actually wants more

"For readers of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks and Hidden Figures, WHAT THE CHILDREN TOLD US tells the story of the towering intellectual and emotional partnership between the two Black psychologists who pioneered the groundbreaking "doll test," paving the way for the landmark Brown v. Board of Education case and decades of impactful civil rights activism"-- Provided by publisher