Kiss the Girls (Alex Cross #2) by James Patterson

From the author of the spectacularly successful bestseller Along Came a Spider, a heart-stopping new psychological thriller.

James Patterson's Along Came a Spider was one of the most talked-about and fastest-selling thrillers of 1994. The chilling tale of a brilliant serial killer playing a deadly game with his pursuer Alex Cross, the black detective with a PhD in psychology, firmly established James Patterson as a fast-rising new star. Now in his powerful new thriller, his hero Alex Cross is ensnared in an even more disturbing case.

This time there are two depraved killers on the loose. 'Casanova' is abducting young women from colleges in the South; 'The Gentleman Caller' is terrorising Los Angeles. The bad news is that the FBI thinks they're talking to each other. They seem to be competing - and may even be working together. But one of them has made a serious miscalculation by kidnapping Alex Cross's favourite niece.

Burned out after his last case, Cross is in no mood to take on another killer. But now he has no choice. This time it's personal.