CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Series by Max Allan Collins
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation #1
Double Dealer ccsi-1
Max Allan Collins
Meet the little know and even less understood heroes of police work in Las Vegas - the forensic investigators, as they work to untangle the evidence behind the yellow police tape. Wednesday, 5.30am: in an off-the-strip, somewhat-out-of-the-way casino, a room service waiter rounds a corner and stumbles across a killer, and a corpse. Homicide detective Jim Brass summons Grissom and company to the scene. As Brass follows his instincts, Warrick and Sara folow evidence the killer left behind, and Nick and Catherine investigate a murder that's fifteen years new. Although focused at first on the perpetrator's deadly double-tap signature, Grissom will soon make the most troubling discovery of all: the inexplicable interest of FBI agent Rick Culpepper.
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CSI: Crime Scene Investigation #2
Sin City ccsi-2
Max Allan Collins
Based on the hit CBS series "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, " this original novel follows the forensic investigator team of Las Vegas' Criminalistics Bureau--led by Gil Grissom--as they investigate the deaths of two women: one a seemingly devoted Christian wife, and the other a professional stripper looking to get out of the sex trade and into junior college. ______________________________ Meet the little know and even less understood heroes of police work in Las Vegas - the forensic investigators, as they work to untangle the evidence behind the yellow police tape. LAS VEGAS, NV--Lynn Peirce, devoted wife and mother, has disappeared without a trace--but her best friends have an audio tape of her husband threatening to cut her up into little pieces. Stripper Jenna Patrick, on the other hand, has just been found--strangled to death in a private room of the club where she worked. Crime Scene Investigation director Gil Grissom and his CSI team must uncover the evidence and unravel the truths behind both shocking murders.
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CSI: Crime Scene Investigation #3
Cold Burn ccsi-3
Max Allan Collins
Remote. Peaceful. Picturesque. That's how the Mumford Mountain Hotel bills itself in its brochure, and it lives up to its billing--most of the time. But this year, the hotel is hosting a prestigious conference for the study of forensic science, and the organizers have extended CSI head Gil Grissom an invitation he can't refuse. Joined by fellow investigator Sara Sidle, Grissom leaves the department in the capable hands of Catherine Willows and heads east. But he and Sara soon find themselves in all too familiar territory--and back in Las Vegas, Catherine, Warrick Brown, and Nick Stokes have uncovered trouble of their own.
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CSI: Crime Scene Investigation #4
Body of Evidence ccsi-4
Max Allan Collins
Early one quiet Monday morning, in an empty executive office, assistant Janice Denard begins to prepare for another ordinary day--but instead discovers evidence of horrific crimes, shocking photographs left abandoned in a printer. Now, with the help of the LVPD's computer forensics experts, the CSI team must track through hardware and software, deception and deceit to find the perpetrators. But while Willows and Stokes investigate the once well-hidden secrets now revealed in print, Grissom, Brown, and Sidle uncover new and disturbing evidence in a high-profile media case ... the brutal murder of the Mayor's long-missing secretary.
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CSI: Crime Scene Investigation #5
Grave Matters ccsi-5
Max Allan Collins
Rebecca Bennett, the estranged stepdaughter of a well-to-do Las Vegas businessman, is hounding the Las Vegas Police Department to reopen the investigation into her mother Rita's death--alleging that, despite appearances to the contrary, Rebecca's greedy stepfather actually played a hand in Rita Bennett's untimely end. But no one is prepared for the news that CSIs Gil Grissom, Sara Sidle, and Nick Stokes report--their investigation is inconclusive ... because the disinterred deceased is not Rita Bennett. Meanwhile, at the Sunny Day Continuing Care Facility, Catherine Willows and Warrick Brown must investigate the sudden demise of Vivian Elliot--a patient whose death may be the result of unnatural causes....
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CSI: Crime Scene Investigation #6
Binding Ties ccsi-6
Max Allan Collins
Ten years ago, Las Vegas was terrorized by "CAST"--a vicious serial killer responsible for nearly half a dozen brutal murders, and who tested the mettle of the LVPD's new Captain, Jim Brass. After a two-year spree, CAST suddenly disappeared and has not been heard from ... until now. Gil Grissom and his CSI team are called in to investigate a homicide that perfectly fits the notorious criminal's modus operandi. But all hell breaks loose when a reporter made famous by the original cases receives a letter from someone claiming to be CAST--and who says he has nothing to do with the latest slaying. Now the CSIs must stop someone who may be a copycat killer from striking again....even as a murderer from the past continues to evade capture, and isn't taking too kindly to rivals....
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