All the books by James Patterson adapted to cinema and television, ranked

In 1966, a wealthy industrialist has moved from Chicago to Sparta, Mississippi, to build a factory there. Late one night, police officer Sam Wood discovers Colbert’s murdered body lying in the street. A doctor estimates that Colbert had been dead for a few hours. At the train station, Wood finds a black man, Virgil Tibbs, and arrests him.

Inspector Lindsay Boxer, Medical Examiner Claire Washburn, Assistant District Attorney Jill Bernhardt, and Crime Reporter Cindy Thomas team up to solve murder cases in San Francisco. Using their individual areas of expertise, strong friendship, and intuition, they work together to investigate the city’s most gruesome homicides.

Filthy Rich tells the stories of the survivors of Jeffrey Epstein, and how he used his wealth and power to commit these crimes. How many girls had to suffer to get attention? How perversely twisted is the American justice system that a Gatsby-esque billionaire, could buy his way out of an almost certain life sentence for child sex abuse and trafficking?

An American zoologist, a Kenyan safari guide, a Los Angeles journalist, a quirky veterinary pathologist, an a French intelligence agent, work to investigate the strange pandemic of violent animal attacks on humans occurring globally. As the attacks become more organized and vicious, the team strives to uncover the mystery behind them.

Washington, D.C. detective and forensic psychologist Alex Cross heads to Durham, North Carolina when his niece Naomi, a college student, is reported missing. When she awakens from a drugged state, Kate discovers that she is being held by a masked man calling himself Casanova, and she is one of several prisoners trapped in his lair.

Author, university professor, and former CIA paramilitary officer Dr. Dylan Reinhart is lured back to his old life by New York police detective Elizabeth Needham when she needs his help to stop a serial killer who is using Reinhart’s book as inspiration for murders.

Michael, a guardian angel, appears to children as an imaginary friend until they no longer need his assistance. When he reappears to his current charge, Jane Claremont, a writer who is about to marry a TV star, both are unsure of his mission. Michael falls in love with Jane and tries to seduce her, but she remains committed to her fiancé and ignores the advice of her best friend, a psychotherapist.

After Washington, D.C., detective forensic psychologist and author Alex Cross loses control of a sting operation, resulting in the death of his partner, he retires from the force. He is drawn back to police work when Megan Rose, the daughter of a United States senator, is kidnapped from her exclusive private school by Gary Soneji, a computer science teacher.

Kate Wilkinson, a book editor in New York City, thinks she has found the perfect man in Matt Harrison, a handsome author. But on a significant night in their relationship, Matt suddenly ends things without offering an explanation.

A transfer student named Rafe, who has an overactive imagination and is very passionate about his artistic talent, lives in a middle-class home with his mother Jules, his rebellious younger sister Georgia, and Jules’s lazy, child-hating boyfriend. Rafe cannot wait to start his first day at Hills Village Middle School, but it is not as exciting as he believes when he finds out that most of the teachers at the school, are very cruel and much worse than the bullies.

Jacob Kanon, a New York detective, investigates the death of his daughter who was murdered while on her honeymoon; he recruits the help of Scandinavian journalist Dessie Lombard when other couples throughout Europe suffer a similar fate.

Homicide inspector Lindsay Boxer joins forces with three other female professionals to catch a serial killer who targets newlywed brides on their honeymoons. As she works to solve the most significant case of her career, Lindsay finds herself developing feelings for her partner and struggling with a life-threatening illness.