Chapters 22-23 Summary

Kaiser and Glass drive across Lake Pontchartrain to Kaiser's suburban home. His leg hurts him badly, and she encourages him to rest on his bed. As they discuss the days events, they once again begin to kiss, ending in a bout of active, passionate sex. Afterward, Kaiser begins looking through some computer-enhanced images of some the Sleeping Women painter's earliest paintings, which were done in an abstract style. From these, he thinks he recognizes a victim from ten years previous who was taken in New York. Certain of his connection, he tells Glass it means the kidnapper first started his crime spree much earlier than thought.

The connection to New York is confirmed in Chapter 23, as six of the eight unknown women in the paintings are identified as victims who disappeared in New York between 1979 and 1984. Between that time and the...