In a luxury Boston hotel on April 14, 2009, police discovered the body of a beautiful young woman—her head battered, a bullet through her heart. The victim, a masseuse named Julissa Brisman, had advertised her erotic services on Craigslist, the popular classified-ads Web site. A twenty-two-year-old medical student named Philip Markoff was her last-known client... Why was a soon-to-be-married man prowling the Internet for sex? What events led up to Markoff's meeting with Brisman? What happened on the night of their fateful - and fatal - date? The Boston Police Homicide Unit followed a digital trail that led to Markoff's home, where investigators found a gun, prepaid cell phones, plastic handcuffs, and a stash of women's undergarments. How many other women did Markoff meet before Brisman? And what happened to them? This is the true story of one woman's Date with Death.