Read the book yourself or go rent the 1997 movie with Freeman. This audiobook, unfortunately, is one to be avoided. His other novels are hit or miss for me, but the Cross series is, for the most part, good. I generally enjoy Patterson's Cross series. For me, it was as pleasurable to listen to as nails down a chalkboard. Casanova is supposed to have a North Carolina accent I hope that North just had a terrible time creating this accent and this isn't his real voice. This actor has been on Sex & the City, Law & Order and Hill Street Blues. It doesn't work very well.Ĭasanova is performed by Chris North. Alas, we have a 'butler' playing a detective. Personally, I think Fernandez should have narrated this audiobook as well. Fernandez is an excellent reader of other Alex Cross audiobooks. Morgan Freeman plays a decent Alex Cross in the movie versions.

Guillaume is the third actor to play Cross that I know about, and the worst. Robert Guillaume, better known as the title character in the old television show Benson, reads the part of Alex Cross. With the ability to 'connect dots' the listener has not heard about, Alex will link the crimes in North Carolina to crimes in California by a serial killer who goes by the name 'The Gentleman Caller.' Is there one killer who works both coasts, or two who work together or perhaps compete? With her help, Alex and the team draw in closer to the killer. While not an official member of the investigation, Alex is allowed to join the hunt due to this connection.ĭuring the course of the investigation, one of Casanova's victims manages to escape.

One of those women is Cross's niece, Naomi. A predator who calls himself 'Casanova' seems attracted to talented, intelligent, strong-willed women. Young females have been disappearing in the Chapel Hill, North Carolina area. in psychology and is an expert in the area of serial killings. Not to confuse things further, but Time Warner has released a version of the audiobook of Kiss the Girls in 2005.įor those of you not familiar with Alex Cross, at the time of Kiss the Girls he is a police detective in Washington, D.C.

The first Alex Cross book (1993), yet second movie (2001), is Along Came a Spider. Kiss the Girls, by James Patterson, was first released in 1995 and is the second Alex Cross novel, but the first the be made in to a movie (1997).

Kiss the Girls by James Patterson