Heat Rises - Nikki Heat, Bk 3 - Audio CD - Unabridged Author:Richard Castle, Johnny Heller (Narrator) The bizarre murder of a parish priest at a New York bondage club opens Nikki Heat's most thrilling and dangerous case so far, pitting her against New York's most vicious drug lord, an arrogant CIA contractor, and a shadowy death squad out to gun her down. And that is just the tip of an iceberg that leads to a dark conspiracy reaching all... more » the way to the highest level of the NYPD. But when she gets too close to the truth, Nikki finds herself disgraced, stripped of her badge, and out on her own as a target for killers, with nobody she can tust. Except maybe the one man in her life who's not a cop: reporter Jameson Rook.
In the midst of New York's coldest winter in a hundred years, there's one thing Nikki is determined to prove, Heat Rises.
Unabridged: 10 Compact Discs, Running Time: 11 hours 15 minutes, Narrator: Johnny Heller.« less
In addition to attempting to solve the bizzare murder of a local parish priest, despite roadblocks from within her own department, Nikki has become the target of an unknown death squad. The priest has been tortured and his death is somehow reminicent of another death years past. Nikki becomes increasingly more concerned about one of her close associates...has he become "dirty" or is he onto more than Nikki is aware? After she is stripped of her badge, she and Jameson Rook take it upon themselves to find the answers.
A fun read if you are a fan of the TV show Castle. It's an interesting concept to have a fictional TV character who is an author "write" a book like what he writes on the show. The actor is not in fact the author, but a lot of fun is had with the idea (mentions of his other TV roles, use of the word "Castle"). A good mystery with lots of murder, twists and turns (some of which are pretty easy to see coming) and a cliff hanger ending. It was sometimes repetitive.