CSI: Nevada Rose (CSI: Crime Scene Investigation) (Mass Market Paperback)
Product Description
“Nevada Rose” Demille was one of the most beautiful and desired sports groupies in Las Vegas, a fixture at the trendiest casinos and clubs on the Strip. But the endless party came to a tragic end the morning her nude body was found bound and gagged in her home. As crime scene investigators Catherine Willows and Warrick Brown dig deeper, all roads (and a growing media circus) lead to Mark Baker — a.k.a. “The Fireball” — a hard-throwing, Cooperstown-bound major-league pitcher and fancier of gorgeous women who recently conducted a very public affair with one “Nevada Rose” Demille….
Meanwhile, miles away on the grounds of a world-class championship golf course, Gil Grissom is probing the macabre discovery of a John Doe — an intense investigation that will unearth a bitter sibling rivalry twisted by jealousy and distrust over a “Nevada Rose” of a very different nature….
About the Author
Jerome Preisler is the author of more than twenty books, including the bestselling Tom Clancy’s Power Plays series. He is also a baseball commentator whose work appears on the New York Yankees’ YES Network Online.
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Max Allan Collins is the best writer for the CSI novels so far, but Jerome Priesler did a great job. I did find it weird that the cast was split into the swing shift and graveyard shift again. I enjoyed this more than the previous book, In Extremis, by another author.
I’m a huge CSI fan, whether it is on TV, in novels, or graphic novels. I also enjoyed Preisler’s work in his “Tom Clancy” series, so I was happy when the Amazon box containing this book showed up and sat down to start reading.”Nevada Rose”, as is typical of CSI episodes and books, follows two investigations. Both cases are interesting and the stories keep you reading; however, the CSIs in the book don’t “feel” like the characters in the show or even in the other CSI novels — there’s just something a little “off” in the characterizations for me.
Like another reader, I bought this as a reader of Preisler’s Power Plays series, but have a much higher opinion of this book. Maybe because I’ve watched the show but never read the other novels,I had a clean slate going in. Whatever the reason, I thought the characterizations were right on and the dialog was crisp. There are small moments that reveal the “ghosts” these characters carry around–the scene with Sara in the campus quad, the one when Grissom thinks about religion, a couple with the non-CSI characters in the book. They gave me chills.