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Heat Wave
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*A New York real estate tycoon plunges to his death on a Manhattan sidewalk. A trophy wife
with a past survives a narrow escape from a brazen attack. Mobsters and moguls with no shortage of reasons to
kill trot out their alibis. And then, in the suffocating grip of a record heat wave, comes another shocking
murder and a sharp turn in a tense journey into the dirty little secrets of the wealthy. Secrets that prove
to be fatal. Secrets that lay hidden in the dark until one NYPD detective shines a light.
Mystery
sensation Richard Castle, blockbuster author of the wildly best-selling Derrick Storm novels, introduces his
newest character, NYPD Homicide Detective Nikki Heat. Tough, sexy, professional, Nikki Heat carries a passion
for justice as she leads one of New York City's top homicide squads. She's hit with an unexpected challenge
when the commissioner assigns superstar magazine journalist Jameson Rook to ride along with her to research
an article on New York's Finest. Pulitzer Prize-winning Rook is as much a handful as he is handsome. His
wise-cracking and meddling aren't her only problems. As she works to unravel the secrets of the murdered real
estate tycoon, she must also confront the spark between them. The one called heat.
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Naked Heat
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Nikki Heat and Jameson Rook are together again in Richard Castle's thrilling follow-up to
his New York Times bestseller, Heat Wave. When New York's most vicious gossip columnist, Cassidy Towne, is
found dead, Heat uncovers a gallery of high profile suspects, all with compelling motives for killing the
most feared muckraker in Manhattan. Heat's murder investigation is complicated by her surprise reunion with
superstar magazine journalist Jameson Rook. In the wake of their recent breakup, Nikki would rather not deal
with their raw emotional baggage. But the handsome, wise-cracking Pulitzer Prize-winning writer's personal
involvement in the case forces her to team up with Rook anyway. The residue of their unresolved romantic
conflict and crackling sexual tension fills the air as Heat and Rook embark on a search for a killer among
celebrities and mobsters, singers and hookers, pro athletes and shamed politicians. This new, explosive case
brings on the heat in the glittery world of secrets, cover-ups, and scandals.
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Heat Rises
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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 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 trust. 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.
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Frozen Heat
(Book 4) |
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?
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Deadly Heat
(Book 5) |
NYPD Homicide Detective Nikki Heat pursues the elusive former CIA station chief who ordered
the execution of her mother over 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. The frightening murderer, known for
his chilling stealth, not only has singled out Nikki as the exclusive recipient of his taunting messages, he
then boldly names his next victim: Detective Heat.
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Raging Heat
(Book 6) |
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.
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Driving Heat
(Book 7) |
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 fiance,
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 Rook becomes a distraction at best, and an obstacle at worst, as their parallel lives not only cross, but
collide.
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High Heat
(Book 8) |
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.
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Heat Storm
(Book 9) |
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.
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Derrick Storm |
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Storm Front
(Book 1) |
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.
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Wild Storm
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Derrick Storm, the guy the CIA calls 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 behind the terrorism.
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Castle: Richard Castle's Deadly Storm
(Graphic Novel 1) |
CASTLE fans rejoice! For the first time anywhere, CASTLE's titular hero Derrick Storm
comes to life in the pages of this all-new graphic novel. This "adaptation" of Derrick Storm's first novel
adventure takes our hero from the gritty world of the private eye all the way to the globe-hopping intrigue
of the CIA.
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Castle: Richard Castle's Storm Season
(Graphic Novel 2) |
The sequel to the critically acclaimed, best-selling graphic novel Richard Castle's Deadly
Storm! In this "adaptation" of Derrick Storm's second novel, the private investigator is hired to bug the hotel
suite of an African head of state - but what should have been a routine mission quickly spirals out of control
when Storm overhears a woman's terrifying scream on the wire. Plagued by the victim's helpless cry, Storm -
despite an ominous warning - investigates. Soon, he'll discover an international conspiracy reaching further
than he ever imagined - and perhaps the truth about Clara Strike, a CIA agent the world thinks is dead!
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Castle: A Calm Before Storm
(Graphic Novel 3) |
Derrick Storm's gruesome discovery winds up drawing him into an international spectacle.
Who is The Fear? What does he want with Derrick? And why is Derrick's father next on his hit list? As the
international situation in New York continues to degrade, Derrick Storm reaches out to the one person who may
be able to help him: his former handler, Clara Strike. But even if she responds, will she be with him or
against him?
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Castle: Unholy Storm
(Graphic Novel 4) |
When the daughters of four high-powered international businessmen are discovered dead in NY,
the NYPD scrambles to bring the murderer to justice. But when a fifth girl is found mutilated in a pool of her
own blood, her prestigious French family hires Derrick Storm to run his own investigation and find the real
killer. Storm has only one lead - a strange symbol drawn in blood. Storm enlists the help of the beautiful and
daring Clara Strike, his CIA handler. Together they uncover a deep web of deception under the guise of mysticism
and devotion. And in a race against time, this most unlikely pair unlock a mystery capable of creating global
catastrophe!
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