Bestselling author James Patterson won an Edgar Award for his debut novel, The Thomas Berryman Number, but it was the 1993 thriller Along Came a Spider that made him a household name. The first of many novels featuring Detective Alex Cross, Along Came a Spider and its sequels, Kiss the Girls and Cross, were later filmed for the big screen. The TV movie Child of Darkness, Child of Light, based on Cradle and All, was his first television adaptation. Check out James Patterson's extensive list of suspense-thriller novels and young adult fiction ?at Walmart.