Frozen Heat by Richard Castle

Frozen Heat by Richard Castle

Published:  September 2012

Pages: 313

Setting: New York City, Boston, and Paris

Time Period: contemporary (flashbacks to 1999)

Series: Nikki Heat Series, no. 4.

Synopsis:  In the fourth book of Nikki Heat Series, NYPD Homicide Detective Nikki Heat and her team discover a suitcase that contains a woman frozen in a deliver truck.  She soon discovers that the murder is connected to the murder of her mother, Cynthia Heat ten years earlier.  Nikki Heat and Jameson Rook, a writer doing research with the NYPD and in a relationship with Heat, are taken on a roller coaster of events that shakes her belief system. The book is a fast paced read that leaves you on the edge of your seat the whole way through.

Subject Headings:  Policewomen-New York (State)-New York-Fiction, Murder-Investigation-Fiction.

 Appeals:

·      Fast-paced

·      plot-driven

·       steamy

Writing style:

·      conservational

·      witty

Read-a-likes (from Novelist)

1. Rizzoli and Isles: Last to Die by Tess Gerritsen

Visiting sixteen-year-old "Rat" Perkins at isolated Evensong boarding school, Maura Isles is astonished to learn that all of his classmates are survivors of violence and are being instructed in scientific detective skills, a discovery that coincides with Jane Rizzoli's investigation into the murder of a boy's foster family.

2.  Double Take by Catherine Coulter

Violently attacked by a stranger six months after the brutal killing of her beloved husband, Julia Ransom is narrowly rescued by special agent Cheney Stone, who reopens the case of Julia's husband's death when he suspects a connection.

3. The Black Box by Michael Connelly

Harry Bosch investigates after a bullet from a recent killing is a match for one used in the unsolved murder of a photographer in 1992.

Non-Fiction Read-a-likes

·      Green River Killer: a true detective story by Jeff Jansen

·      The Mammoth Book of Killers at Large by Nigel Cawthorne

·     Killer Book of Cold Cases: Incredible Stories, Facts, and Trivia from the Most Baffling True Crime Cases of All Time by Tom Philbin