I saw the movie years ago, but had thankfully forgotten most, if not all of the details before diving in to this book, which had been sitting in the “to-read” drawer for quite some time.  Unfortunately, thanks to a perusal of Wikipedia, I managed to spoil myself on the final twist: the identity of Casanova, the man who was kidnapping smart, attractive girls throughout the campuses of North Carolina.

Kiss The Girls was the second of what is now 19 Alex Cross novels produced by James Patterson.  Cross, a Washington DC detective, gets involved in the Casanova case when his niece goes missing from Duke.  In North Carolina, Cross finds himself at odds with the local police, but finds help from the FBI and an escaped victim of Casanova.

My mom and my sister have been plowing through the James Patterson collection over the past couple of years, but this was my first experience with his work, movie adaptations notwithstanding.  Despite my spoiling myself on the ending, I did enjoy the book and would certainly be interested in giving more of his work a try, assuming some of my mom’s old books are still laying around somewhere.