El escritor número uno en ventas Richard Castle, autor de los bestsellers de «Derrick Storm», nos presenta a su nuevo personaje: la detective de homicidios del Departamento de Policía de Nueva York Nikki Heat, dura de pelar, sexy y profesional.
En Ola de calor, primera entrega de la «Serie Castle», Nikki Heats se enfrenta a un desafío inesperado cuando el inspector jefe le asigna de compañero al famoso periodista Jameson Rook, ganador de un premio Pulitzer, quien deberá acompañarla en una investigación para escribir uno de sus artículos.
El caso que deben investigar es misterioso y complicado: un magnate inmobiliario del estado de Nueva York ha muerto desplomado sobre una de las aceras de la ciudad; una esposa florero con un sombrío pasado ha escapado de milagro a un descarado ataque; los principales sospechosos de las agresiones, gánsteres y hombres de negocios con poder con motivos de sobra para asesinar, recitan de memoria sus coartadas. Y, en medio de una sofocante ola de calor, un nuevo homicidio tiene lugar y da comienzo a un tenso viaje por los pequeños y oscuros secretos de los ricos.
A medida que avanza la investigación, Nikki deberá reconocer que, lejos de resultar un incordio, el periodista que le pisa los talones le resulta útil e incluso le parece atractivo..., de modo que deberá lidiar también con la chispa que ha surgido entre ellos. Una chispa en medio de una ola de calor.
La «Serie Castle» está compuesta por los libros escritos por Richard Castle, protagonista de la serie de televisión Castle, que triunfa con más de 1.500.000 de espectadores.
Nikki Heat and Derrick Storm, New York Times bestselling author Richard Castle's most enduring and beloved characters, team up for the first time to save Nikki's mother, Cynthia, who has been in hiding (and presumed dead) for 17 years. Standing in their way is a nefarious group of Chinese businessmen known as the Shanghai Seven, who have the resources-and ruthlessness-to stop them.
An ISIS-style beheading of a journalist, carried out by a New York City group pledging fealty to that rogue state, becomes more than just another case for NYPD Captain Nikki Heat when the killers announce their next target: her husband, magazine writer Jameson Rook. Meanwhile, Heat is haunted by a fleeting glimpse of someone she swears is her mother... a woman who has been dead for nearly twenty years.
Richard Castle, New York Times mega-bestselling mystery writer and star of ABC's hit primetime show Castle is back. In the seventh novel of his popular Nikki Heat series, the NYPD's top homicide detective has been promoted to captain just in time to face a thrilling case with a very personal twist. Captain Heat's fiancé, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Jameson Rook, is deep in an investigation. Professionally for Heat, Rook's meddling in the case compromises her new job. Privately, it becomes an early test of their engagement when Took becomes a distraction at best, and an obstacle at worst, as their parallel lives not only cross, but collide.
Derrick Storm, the guy the CIA called on when it wants something investigated domestically, is thirty-three thousand feet in the air, returning from a rock climbing vacation in the Swiss Alps, when the plane spirals into a nose-dive. Storm uses his climbing gear to tether himself to the wing and heroically save the plane and all the people on board. Sadly, Storm is not available to come to the aid of the three other planes that have crashed under similar circumstances, killing everyone on board. Interestingly, many of the victims are powerful people in politics, business and religious groups.
The always elusive Jedidiah Jones, leader of the National Clandestine Service that has no name, calls on Storm to investigate. Storm determines that an unknown extremist has secured enough of the rare earth element promethium to create a laser with the power to shoot down planes from the ground. The problem swiftly becomes a global one as four more planes crash in the Arabia Desert.
Details, intuition and courage lead Storm to Monaco, Panama City and Egypt as he meets beautiful women, rides angry camels and rescues innocent victims in his valiant effort to track down the maniacal mind.
In New York Times Bestselling author Richard Castle's newest novel, an illegal immigrant falls from the sky and NYPD Homicide Detective Nikki Heat's investigation into his death quickly captures the imagination of her boyfriend the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Jameson Rook. When he decides to work the case with Heat as his next big story, Nikki is at first happy to have him ride along. Yes, she must endure Rook's usual wild conspiracy speculations and adolescent wisecracks, but after reuniting following his recent assignment abroad, she's glad for the entertainment, the chance to bounce ideas, and just to be close to him again and feel the old spark rekindle. But when Rook's inquiry concludes that Detective Heat has arrested the wrong man for the murder, everything changes.
Balancing her high stakes job with a complicated romance has been a challenge ever since Nikki fell for the famous reporter. Now, her relationship lurches from mere complexity into sharp conflict over the most high-risk case of her career. Set against the raging force of Hurricane Sandy as it pounds New York, Heat battles an ambitious powerbroker, fights a platoon of urban mercenaries, and clashes with the man she loves. Detective Heat knows her job is to solve murders. She just worries that solving this one will be the death of her relationship.
Mit dem bizarren Mord an einem Gemeindepfarrer in einem New Yorker Bondage-Club beginnt Nikki Heats bislang aufregendster und gefährlichster Fall. Sie bekommt es mit New Yorks bösartigstem Drogenbaron, einem arroganten CIA-Mitarbeiter sowie einer geheimnisvollen Todesschwadron, die sie erledigen will, zu tun. Und das ist nur die Spitze eines Eisbergs, die zu einer dunklen Verschwörung führt, die bis in die höchsten Ebenen des NYPD reicht.
Doch als sie der Wahrheit zu nah kommt, fällt Nikki plötzlich in Ungnade, verliert ihre Marke und muss sich allein den Mördern stellen, die es auf sie abgesehen haben. Sie kann niemandem mehr vertrauen. Außer vielleicht dem einzigen Mann in ihrem Leben, der kein Polizist ist: der Reporter Jameson Rook.
Mitten in New Yorks kältestem Winter seit hundert Jahren ist Nikki fest entschlossen zu beweisen, dass man sie nicht so leicht erledigen kann.
Auf Richard Castles Bestseller Heat Wave, Naked Heat und Heat Rises folgt nun der vierte Band seiner Nikki Heat-Reihe. In diesem rasanten Roman voller Intrigen, der sich als Richard Castles bisher spannendster Krimi erweisen könnte, bilden Nikki Heat und Jameson Rook einmal mehr ein Team.
Die NYPD-Detective Nikki Heat bekommt es an ihrem neuesten Tatort mit einem größeren Geheimnis zu tun, als erwartet. Ein nicht identifizierte Leiche wurde gefunden. Die Frau wurde erstochen, in einen Koffer gestopft und darin auf einer Straße in Manhattan stehen gelassen. Aber nicht genug! Ein noch viel größerer Schock folgt, als sich herausstellt, dass dieser Fall mit dem ungelösten Mord an Detective Heats Mutter zusammenhängt. Die grausame Ermordung der Unbekannten treibt Heat in eine gefährliche und emotionale Ermittlung, bei der sie den alten Fall wieder aufrollt, der sie seit ihrem 19. Lebensjahr verfolgt. Zusammen mit ihrem Partner in romantischen und ermittlerischen Dingen, dem Starjournalisten Jameson Rook, arbeitet Heat daran, das Geheimnis um die Leiche im Koffer zu lösen, während sie gleichzeitig gezwungen ist, gegen ihren Willen in der Vergangenheit ihrer Mutter herumzustochern.
Die Frage ist: Wird Nikki Heat nun, da der Fall ihrer Mutter unerwarteterweise wieder ans Licht gekommen ist, endlich in der Lage sein, das dunkle Geheimnis zu lösen, das sie seit zehn Jahren verfolgt?
Nikki Heat and Jameson Rook race to stop a deadly threat from Heat's past as well as an all-too-present serial killer, in Richard Castle's follow-up to the New York Times bestseller Frozen Heat.
Determined to find justice for her mother, top NYPD Homicide Detective Nikki Heat continues to pursue the elusive former CIA station chief who ordered her execution more than a decade ago. For the hunt, Nikki teams once again with her romantic partner, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Jameson Rook, and their quest for the old spy and the motive behind the past murder unearths an alarming terror plot, which is anything but ancient history. It is lethal. It is now. And it has already entered its countdown phase.
Complicating Heat's mission to bring the rogue spy to justice and thwart the looming terror event, a serial killer begins menacing the Twentieth Precinct, and her homicide squad is under pressure to stop him, and soon. Known for his chilling stealth, the diabolical murderer not only singles out Nikki as the exclusive recipient of his taunting messages, he names her as his next victim.
There's a storm front coming!
Four years after he was presumed dead, Derrick Storm--the man who made Richard Castle a perennial bestseller--is back in this rip-roaring, full-length thriller.
From Tokyo, to London, to Johannesburg, high-level bankers are being gruesomely tortured and murdered. The killer, caught in a fleeting glimpse on a surveillance camera, has been described as a psychopath with an eye patch. And that means Gregor Volkov, Derrick Storm's old nemesis, has returned. Desperate to figure out who Volkov is working for and why, the CIA calls on the one man who can match Volkov's strength and cunning--Derrick Storm.
With the help of a beautiful and mysterious foreign agent--with whom Storm is becoming romantically and professionally entangled--he discovers that Volkov's treachery has embroiled a wealthy hedge-fund manager and a U.S. senator. In a heated race against time, Storm chases Volkov's shadow from Paris, to the lair of a computer genius in Iowa, to the streets of Manhattan, then through a bullet-riddled car chase on the New Jersey Turnpike. In the process, Storm uncovers a plot that could destroy the global economy--unleashing untold chaos--which only he can stop.
When Derrick Storm needed to leave the CIA, he couldn't just retire. He had to fake his own death. So when his former boss calls in an old favor that will bring Storm out of early retirement and back to Washington to investigate a high-profile kidnapping, he knows there must be more at stake than the life of a senator's son. Working alongside, but not exactly with, bombshell FBI investigator April Showers, Storm must make sense of a confusing flurry of ransom notes and a complicated web of personal relationships and international politics. He'll get to the bottom of the kidnapping, but a storm is still brewing - filled with assassins, gold bars hidden by the Communist Party in the former USSR, and someone leaking information to the Russian government.
While the CIA mission is getting heated, nothing compares to the growing sexual tension between Storm and Showers. And as the mission begins to unravel they find out the hard way that their assignment may not be what they thought it was...
Originally released as separate e-book shorts, now all three stories are together and in audio for the first time!
Hot on the heels of Richard Castle's #1 'New York Times' bestseller 'Heat Rises' comes the fourth novel in the Nikki Heat series, 'Frozen Heat'. Nikki Heat and Jameson Rook are together again, facing an unsolved murder mystery that has haunted Nikki for ten years.
NYPD Homicide Detective Nikki Heat arrives at her latest crime scene to find an unidentified woman stabbed to death and stuffed inside a suitcase left on a Manhattan street. Nikki is in for a big shock when this new homicide connects to the unsolved murder of her own mother. Paired once again with her romantic and investigative partner, top journalist Jameson Rook, Heat works to solve the mystery of the body in the suitcase while she is forced to confront unexplored areas of her mother's background.
Facing relentless danger as someone targets her for the next kill, Nikki's search will unearth painful family truths, expose a startling hidden life, and cause Nikki to reexamine her own past. Heat's passionate quest takes her and Rook from the back alleys of Manhattan to the avenues of Paris, trying to catch a ruthless killer. The question is, now that her mother's cold case has unexpectedly thawed, will Nikki Heat finally be able to solve the dark mystery that has been her demon for ten years?
