Have you visited the R & R Collection in the Library?  The newest James Patterson release, Alex Cross’s Trial is a good read if you enjoy historical fiction.  Alex Cross’s Trial is a story of the deep south of Mississippi and the Ku Klux Klan.  Those of you who have read any of the Alex Cross series may be disappointed when you start reading this novel, but keep reading.   I read the first few pages and thought… this is not the same type of book that James Patterson normally writes about Alex.  This novel is the story handed down by the grandmother of Alex Cross telling about a very disturbing time in the life of his great uncle Abraham.  Alex is writing this story for his children to know what living conditions were like for their ancestors at the turn of the century in Eudora, Mississippi.  The main character, Ben Corbett, a white lawyer from Washington D.C. is asked by President Theodore Roosevelt to return to his hometown of Eudora, Mississippi.  President Roosevelt has also asked Abraham Cross, longtime resident of the black quarter in Eudora, to assist Ben Corbett in discovering the sad secrets of a so called idyllic southern town.  There have been many lynchings of black people and no one seems to want to do anything about the situation.  What he learns could break his heart. This fascinating story, Alex Cross’s Trial is full of surprises, murder, love, and most of all, bravery.