Sachs is a professor at Duke and known as the campus skeleton, as well as a suspect when two students were murdered in the early 1980s. Wick Sachs notes on the back identify Sachs as Casanova.Ĭross and Sampson discuss a theory that the girls are being held in an underground house, built in an area that was part of the Underground Railroad. A search of his apartment uncovers a picture of him with one Dr. A manhunt for the killer begins, but he escapes several times and vanishes. Cross and McTiernan travel there with Craig, and McTiernan rules Rudolph out as Casanova, meaning he must be The Gentleman Caller. Her files contained hints to a possible suspect, Dr. Agent Craig informs them that Lieberman was murdered by The Gentleman Caller. He learns she was drugged with Marinol, which leads them to believe that Casanova is a doctor or a pharmacist. McTiernan, recovering at a hospital, is visited by Cross. After contacting Lieberman and her editor-in-chief, he learns that Casanova and The Gentleman Caller are communicating as East Coast and West Coast serial killers. Meanwhile, Cross discovers that one of The Gentleman Caller's notes published in the Los Angeles Times mentions Naomi. FBI agent Kyle Craig meets Lieberman in LA.Ĭasanova plans to kill Kate McTiernan because she has broken his rules, but she fights him and manages to escape, running into a forest and jumping off a cliff into a river.

He threatens 'bonus kills' if his letters are not published in her newspaper. In Los Angeles, reporter Beth Lieberman is working on a serial killer story about The Gentleman Caller, who has just raped and murdered a 14-year-old girl. Kate McTiernan, and makes her part of his harem of young, attractive, and exceptional women. Around the same time, Casanova abducts another woman, Dr. Around the same time, Police Detective Alex Cross returns to his FBI and DEA are involved and that eight to ten women are missing, all from different states all have received notes from someone calling himself Casanova. Years later, Casanova leaves a young woman to die in the woods. Elsewhere in 1981 Chapel Hill, North Carolina, another killer calling himself The Gentleman Caller kills a young couple on a lake. As a teenage boy in 1975 Boca Raton, Florida, a future serial killer calling himself Casanova kills his first four victims.

Kiss the Girls by James Patterson