Prologue—Perfect Crimes—Casanova Summary

The young killer stalks the inside of a Boca Raton mansion in June of 1975. He sneaks through the crawlspace in the walls and attic and sleeps in the basement behind a refrigerator. He is hunting the two daughters of the house, Coty and Karrie Pierce. For three weeks he lives in the house secretly watching Coty, the girl he fell in love with at school. He paints himself in red, orange and yellow the night he pounces, quite literally, from the ceiling above Coty's bed. At 3:00 a.m. he climbs down carefully from the ceiling through an air duct and crawls into bed with Coty. He caresses her hair and inhales its sweet smell. When she awakens, he tells her that he is Casanova and that he has selected her from all the...