Kiss the Girls plot
"Smart Girls. Pretty Girls. Missing Girls."
Alex Cross, a Washington Police Inspector and Doctor of Psychology, learns that his niece, who studies law in North Carolina, has disappeared and was probably kidnapped. He rushes to Durham to join the search. Far beyond his jurisdiction and much to the chagrin of local investigators, he begins his own investigation. Thanks to his extraordinary deduction skills, he discovers that eight girls have actually disappeared, and that one of them has just been found murdered. She had been raped and carefully tied to a tree in the forest around Durham. Cross sees that he is dealing with a so-called 'collector' of extraordinary girls who are as beautiful as they are sensible...