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CSI: CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (CSI)
by Ken GoddardA ruthless and expertly trained contract killer is on assignment in Nevada's remote Desert National Wildlife Range...and he deliberately sets in motion a series of seemingly unconnected events that will soon test the skills of Gil Grissom and his team of CSIs -- Catherine Willows, Nick Stokes, Warrick Brown, Sara Sidle, and Greg Sanders -- to their limit. For all is not as it appears in this federal refuge, as law enforcement and lawbreakers alike are quickly caught up in a growing crime scene that leads to a deadly game of one-upmanship....
CSI: CSI: Miami (CSI #No. 7)
by Donn CortezBy air, sea, and land the members of the Miami-Dade Crime Lab are called out. In a field outside the Everglades a balloon has just set down; the lone man inside the basket is dead -- an apparent suicide. A yacht riddled with bullets limps into the Port of Miami; only a gravely wounded hijacker survives, confessing that there are drugs somewhere on board, but he can't find them. A local journalist, looking to break out of the rat race with a novel based on the people he covers on his beat, is found dead. In the yacht's galley is a record-setting sunfish that seems to be the key piece of evidence to just what was being smuggled on the ship, yet the lab is stumped when they discover no more than the normal parasites infesting the fish. A raunchy video of a citrus heiress having sex in a public place gives her the motive to kill the journalist-turned-novelist, but she has an alibi. All small pieces of the puzzles that Horatio Caine and the member of his team have to unravel to find out why all these people were killed. Before it is over the members of the Miami-Dade Crime Lab are caught up in an intrigue that reaches to the heart of Castro's Cuba.
CSI: Classroom (Into Reading, Level V #85)
by James Hart Frank PedersenNIMAC-sourced textbook. The crime-scene investigation (CSI) team at Gonzalez School swings into action when a cold, lifeless body is discovered in Room 7. There are plenty of suspects, but only one guilty perpetrator. The CSI: Classroom team will need to use all their skills and experience to solve this cold-blooded crime.
CSI: Crime Scene InvestigationTM
by Jeff MariotteIt’s a hot, early autumn evening in the small resort town of Mount Charleston, NV, where six firefighters are battling a massive blaze that threatens expensive homes . . . a blaze that will cost them their lives. Initially, the police determine that the fire was human-started, and the state wants to prosecute to the fullest extent of the law with six counts of homicide. Now the team of Sin City’s finest criminologists, led by Catherine Willows, are assigned to work a crime scene far from the glittering lights and 24/7 spectacle of the Las Vegas Strip, and soon find much more than they bargained for. . . . Meanwhile, Ray Langston and Nick Stokes are called to a crime scene where a dog has taken a key piece of evidence—a severed human hand—under a suburban home’s crawl space. What’s even more disturbing is that it’s not the first severed hand that’s turned up lately—there have been four other incidents around Las Vegas over the past twelve months. . . .
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
by Donn CortezA terrifying turn of events pits the CSIs against a killer who ingeniously uses insects to commit murder--even modeling his attacks on their behavior. It's a race against time before the next victim turns up. Original.
CSI: Dark Sundays (CSI: Crime Scene Investigation)
by Donn CortezA lavish penthouse party on top of a Vegas hotel and casino plays host to a bizarre set-up to murder in which a security guard is trapped and killed in a private elevator—and the body soon vanishes . . . leading crime scene investigators Nick Stokes and Greg Sanders straight to an uncanny circus troupe with deadly connections to none other than the Russian mafia. In the meantime, Ray Langston and Catherine Willows are called to a psychiatric facility where two patients have just escaped after attacking an orderly. One of the escaped patients, an Iraq war veteran, managed to smuggle in a military-grade nerve gas, inducing realistic and shared three-dimensional illusions and hallucinations . . . and Ray and Catherine must race against time in order to find two very dangerous individuals now roaming freely on the streets of Las Vegas. . . .
CSI: Four Walls
by Keith R. A. DecandidoDetectives Mac Taylor, Danny Messer, Sheldon Hawkes, and Don Flack are called in to investigate a double homicide at a medium-security facility on Staten Island. Racial tensions turned the prison into a pressure cooker that finally boiled over in an all-too-lethal fashion, leaving two inmates dead. One of the killings is an open-and-shut case, complete with eyewitnesses; but the other, the murder of a former cop, defies easy answers. Initial investigation of the crime scene points to one cause of death, but the CSI team's scientific methods uncover something completely different -- and wholly unexpected. . . . On the other edge of the city, Stella Bonasera and Lindsay Monroe look into the murder of a young woman who worked at a popular Italian bakery in the Bronx. They find the perfect suspect almost immediately: a frequent customer who spent a lot of time flirting with the victim and who previously had been arrested for a violent crime. Yet Stella can't help but think that their perfect suspect is just a little too perfect for such a messy murder. . . . Nothing is as it seems as New York City's dedicated crime scene investigators piece together the clues and examine the evidence to discover the true killers in their midst.
CSI: Heart Attack (CSI: Miami #6)
by Donn CortezAs winter's hold deepens in the dark days of February, Miami's hotels fill to the bursting point. Cruise ships flock to the busiest port in the world as people desperate for warmer climates board these behemoths of the seas. People with too much time and money fill the clubs. In every other jurisdiction, as its citizens are driven indoors, there is a downturn in crime but not in Miami, as the members of the Miami-Dade Crime Lab can attest. Stretched to the breaking point, Lieutenant Caine is called to what appears to be a failed international terrorist incident: a botched arms-for-Afghani-heroin exchange. The scene is littered with bodies and blood droplets identified as being from one Abdus Sattar Pathan. Once before, Pathan managed to escape being charged in the murder of a Federal agent. This time Caine has him. Except Pathan has an iron-clad alibi: he was miles away, on stage doing his magic act. Horatio is convinced that Pathan and the international terrorist known as the Hare are one and the same. Can Caine prove it before the Hare puts his deadly plan into motion?
CSI: Miami) (CSI: Miami #8)
by Jeff MariotteA young man is killed in Miami's Bicentennial Park. Two shots -- one a through-and-through -- and on his body a quantity of coke is found. It would be easy to mark down his killing as gang related or a drug deal gone bad. While the simplest explanation may be the best, it does not follow that it is always true. There is something about the angles of the bullets that killed him that are off...and why take his gun and money, and leave the drugs? And who would have the skill to carry all of this out without leaving a path in the grass? A serial bomber has been spreading terror across the western states. The FBI has been on his trail for years, but always one day too late, leaving frustrated agents to sweep through bombed sites, looking for leads. A search of an Albuquerque motel and its Dumpsters has led the agent-in-charge to Miami, hoping this time he will not need the services of the Miami-Dade Crime Lab. A bomb set in a house kills a doctor and all of his family. If this is the same bomber, he has changed his pattern. Why? Does he feel more comfortable here in Miami? Lieutenant Horatio Caine is going to find him, and make sure the only comfort the bomber finds is offered by the state -- in jail.
CSI: Nevada Rose
by Jerome PreislerMeet the little known and even less understood heroes of police work in Las Vegas -- the forensic investigators. Led by veteran Gil Grissom, the remarkable team assigned to the Criminalistics Bureau's graveyard shift -- including Catherine Willows, Warrick Brown, Nick Stokes, Sara Sidle, and Greg Sanders -- must combine cutting-edge scientific methods and old-fashioned detective savvy as they work to untangle the evidence behind the yellow police tape. FULL SYNOPSIS TO COME
CSI: New York: Four Walls (CSI: New York #4)
by Keith R. DeCandidoDetectives Mac Taylor, Danny Messer, Sheldon Hawkes, and Don Flack are called in to investigate a double homicide at a medium-security facility on Staten Island. Racial tensions turned the prison into a pressure cooker that finally boiled over in an all-too-lethal fashion, leaving two inmates dead. One of the killings is an open-and-shut case, complete with eyewitnesses; but the other, the murder of a former cop, defies easy answers. Initial investigation of the crime scene points to one cause of death, but the CSI team's scientific methods uncover something completely different -- and wholly unexpected.... On the other edge of the city, Stella Bonasera and Lindsay Monroe look into the murder of a young woman who worked at a popular Italian bakery in the Bronx. They find the perfect suspect almost immediately: a frequent customer who spent a lot of time flirting with the victim and who previously had been arrested for a violent crime. Yet Stella can't help but think that their perfect suspect is just a little too perfect for such a messy murder.... Nothing is as it seems as New York City's dedicated crime scene investigators piece together the clues and examine the evidence to discover the true killers in their midst.
CSI: Right to Die
by Jeff MariotteA young man is killed in Miami's Bicentennial Park. Two shots -- one a through-and-through -- and on his body a quantity of coke is found. It would be easy to mark down his killing as gang related or a drug deal gone bad. While the simplest explanation may be the best, it does not follow that it is always true. There is something about the angles of the bullets that killed him that are off...and why take his gun and money, and leave the drugs? And who would have the skill to carry all of this out without leaving a path in the grass? A serial bomber has been spreading terror across the western states. The FBI has been on his trail for years, but always one day too late, leaving frustrated agents to sweep through bombed sites, looking for leads. A search of an Albuquerque motel and its Dumpsters has led the agent-in-charge to Miami, hoping this time he will not need the services of the Miami-Dade Crime Lab. A bomb set in a house kills a doctor and all of his family. If this is the same bomber, he has changed his pattern. Why? Does he feel more comfortable here in Miami? Lieutenant Horatio Caine is going to find him, and make sure the only comfort the bomber finds is offered by the state -- in jail.
CSI: Salón de clases (¡Arriba la Lectura!, Level W #85)
by James Hart Frank PedersenEl equipo de investigación de la escena del crimen (CSI) de la Escuela González entra en acción cuando aparece un cuerpo frío y sin vida en el Salón 7. Hay muchos sospechosos, pero un único culpable. El equipo CSI: Salón de clases deberá usar todas sus destrezas y su experiencia para resolver este crimen a sangre fría. NIMAC-sourced textbook
CSI: Shock Treatment
by CoxWhat happens when a reality TV series gets a true dose of reality? A staged prank for a hit scare show has gone horribly wrong with an actor now dead and production halted indefinitely. As the graveyard shift of Sin City's best crime scene investigators--including Catherine Willows, Ray Langston, Nick Stokes, Sara Sidle, and Greg Sanders-- digs deeper behind the scenes, more questions than answers pile up: Was the botched prank's set-up simply a case of carelessness on the producers' part resulting in a tragic accident, or did someone really orchestrate an elaborate scheme for revenge and murder?
CSI: Skin Deep
by PreislerA retired judge has been found brutally murdered on the outskirts of Las Vegas, complete with a macabre yet masterfully intricate tattoo on his face . . . the third seemingly random victim of the mysterious kidnapper dubbed by law enforcement as the "Tattoo Man." The judge wasn't the first person to have been abducted, drugged, and permanently altered with tattoos and body modification . . . but he was the first to wind up dead. At the same time, several other deceased are turning up all over Sin City with their body art mercilessly removed--and the timing would seem to suggest to those in authority that all of these crimes are somehow related. But Las Vegas's top crime scene investigators--Catherine Willows, Ray Langston, Nick Stokes, Sara Sidle, and Greg Sanders--aren't jumping to any conclusions, as they attempt to connect the dots by entering the secretive and tight-knit body art community--one that is intensely wary of outsiders. . . .
CSI: The Burning Season
by Jeff MariotteIt's a hot, early autumn evening in the small resort town of Mount Charleston, NV, where six firefighters are battling a massive blaze that threatens expensive homes . . . a blaze that will cost them their lives. Initially, the police determine that the fire was human-started, and the state wants to prosecute to the fullest extent of the law with six counts of homicide. Now the team of Sin City's finest criminologists, led by Catherine Willows, are assigned to work a crime scene far from the glittering lights and 24/7 spectacle of the Las Vegas Strip, and soon find much more than they bargained for. . . . Meanwhile, Ray Langston and Nick Stokes are called to a crime scene where a dog has taken a key piece of evidence--a severed human hand--under a suburban home's crawl space. What's even more disturbing is that it's not the first severed hand that's turned up lately--there have been four other incidents around Las Vegas over the past twelve months. . . .
CSI: The Killing Jar
by Donn CortezA teenager is found dead in his motel room, the cause of death: millipede poison...Now crime scene investigator Gil Grissom must aid CSI's Nick Stokes and Riley Adams against a serial killer whose knowledge of entomology rivals his own -- a brutal murderer who is not only using insects as the tools of destruction, but actually modeling the attacks after their behavior.... In the meantime, CSIs Catherine Willows and Greg Sanders must investigate a bizarre death, where the victim had gotten mixed up with two very different groups of people -- one involved in using and dealing crystal meth, the other an avant-garde group of artists -- a collision of subcultures where everyone is a suspect and nothing is as it seems....
CUARTO VIOLETA, EL (EBOOK)
by Silvia PlagerDurante el velorio de su marido Julia descubre una carta que él había pedido le entregaran poco tiempo después de haberla abandonado para irse con una mujer de la edad de su hija. Alterada por la revelación amorosa que nunca llegó a sus manos, Julia pasa del rencor a la culpa, sentimiento que se repetirá cuando se produzcan las muertes en el "círculo cultural" al que asiste desde su reencuentro con Amanda, ex compañera de secundaria, directora de un grupo que practica las artes de la numerología, astrología, tarot, espiritismo, lectura del aura... Para completar su experiencia esotérica, Julia decide viajar a Islandia a esparcir las cenizas de Jorge en el glaciar Snaefellsj kull, uno de los centros energéticos más poderosos de la Tierra. "Convertirme en viuda me lanzó a rastrear algo o alguien que yo vislumbraba al acecho. Y se me cruzó la loca idea de que si estaba atenta lo vería, oiría, olería, tocaría. Mis sentidos no iban a equivocarse", dice la protagonista de este viaje iniciático al pasado. Pero se le impone el futuro, inquietante, imprevisible, aunque anticipado en las visiones que le permiten seguir las huellas de dos crímenes. En la bruma del paisaje volcánico, Julia intuye que las últimas ilusiones pueden ser más poderosas que las primeras.
CYBORG 1.0
by Roberto SerafiniCambridge, 20 de junio de 2020. El día de su graduación, John Miller debe enfrentarse a dos eventos dramáticos que lo cambiarán para siempre. Filadelfia, 21 de octubre de 2030. Cyborg Corporation se está preparando para lanzar al mercado una nueva generación de androides, diseñados por el ingeniero John Miller. El prototipo Venus parece listo para abrirse paso en el mundo de los humanos. Solo faltan unas pocas pruebas finales, en las cuales John quiere participar personalmente. Por esto se quedará unos días solo con su criatura
Cabal
by Michael DibdinIn Cabal, master crime writer Michael Dibdin plunges us into a murky world of church spies, secret societies, cover-ups, and mistaken identities. An apparent suicide in the Vatican may in fact have been a muder conducted by a centuries-old cabal within The Knights of Columbus. A discovery among the medieval manuscripts of the Vatican Library leads to a second death, Zen travels to Milan, where he faces a final, dramatic showdown. Meanwhile, Zen's lover, the tantalizing Tania, is conducting her own covert operations--which could well jeopardize everything Zen has worked for. Richly textured, wickedly entertaining, Cabal taps the mysterious beauty of Italy in a thriller that challenges our beliefs about love, allegiance, history, and power--and the lengths to which we will go to protect them against the truth.
Caballeros Fantasmas de Nueva Orleans
by David AlthouseDespués de orquestar una serie de audaces incursiones de trenes, el explorador confederado Drouet Broussard es incluido en un grupo secreto que solo se conoce como los Caballeros del Círculo Dorado. Envuelto en un mundo de agentes y asesinos, a Broussard pronto se le asigna la misión final: asesinar al presidente de los Estados Unidos. Pero a medida que surgen motivos dudosos y la liga comienza a desmoronarse, ¿puede diseñar un escape de la mortal sociedad secreta?
Caballos lentos (Serie Jackson Lamb #Volumen 1)
by Mick HerronLlegan Mick Herron y su multipremiada serie protagonizada por Jackson Lamb para modernizar, con brillantez y humor, el género del espionaje. «La mejor serie de novela negra del siglo XXI.»The Mail on Sunday El reino del irreverente y sarcástico Jackson Lamb está en Londres y se llama Casa de la Ciénaga, un vertedero al que van a parar los miembros de los servicios secretos que han cometido un error, ya sea olvidar un documento en un tren, despistarse en una ronda de vigilancia o volverse poco fiables a causa del alcohol. Sus colegas los denominan «caballos lentos», son los parientes pobres del espionaje británico y todos comparten las ganas de salir de allí a cualquier precio y volver a la acción. De este extravagante grupo de proscritos, el más desengañado es River Cartwright, que se pasa el día transcribiendo conversaciones interceptadas de teléfonos móviles. Sin embargo, cuando se produce el secuestro de un joven y los autores amenazan con decapitarlo en directo por internet, River ve en este acto una oportunidad para redimirse. ¿La víctima es quien parece ser? ¿Y qué relación guardan los secuestradores con ese periodista caído en desgracia que los caballos lentos investigan? Mientras suena el tictac que nos acerca al plazo establecido para la ejecución, River descubre que cada uno de los implicados tiene intereses ocultos, y si los caballos lentos no espabilan, el eco del crimen se difundirá por todo el mundo. Elogiada por The Mail on Sunday como «la novela británica de espías más satisfactoria en muchos años» y considerada por The Daily Telegraph como «una de las veinte mejores novelas de espías de todos los tiempos», Caballos lentos es la primera entrega de la multipremiada serie protagonizada por Jackson Lamb, un personaje que dejará huellapor su temeridad y su afilada lengua. Reseñas:«El nuevo maestro de la novela de espías.»The Sunday Times «Una historia divertida, elegante, satírica y vertiginosa.»The Guardian «El mejor escritor de novelas de espías de nuestro tiempo.»The Daily Telegraph «Una obra maestra del género. [...] Un thriller que acerca a Herron a la categoría de Graham Greene.»Daily Mail «La sátira, la esgrima verbal y los tiroteos se combinan con destreza en una novela de una escritura excelente, teñida por el sentido del humor de Herron: sarcástico, seco y muy inglés.»The Sunday Times
Cabaret Macabre: A Locked-Room Mystery (Joseph Spector Series #0)
by Tom MeadThis latest puzzle mystery from the author of Death and the Conjuror and The Murder Wheel takes stage magician sleuth Joseph Spector to a grand estate in the English countryside. Victor Silvius has spent nine years as an inmate at The Grange, a private sanatorium, for the crime of attacking judge Sir Giles Drury. Now, the judge’s wife, Lady Elspeth Drury, believes that Silvius is the one responsible for a series of threatening letters her husband has recently received. Eager to avoid the scandal that involving the local police would entail, Lady Elspeth seeks out retired stage magician Joseph Spector, whose discreet involvement in a case Sir Giles recently presided over greatly impressed her. Meanwhile, Miss Caroline Silvius is disturbed after a recent visit to her brother Victor, convinced that he isn’t safe at The Grange. Someone is trying to kill him and she suspects the judge, who has already made Silvius’ life a living hell, may be behind it. Caroline hires Inspector George Flint of Scotland Yard to investigate. The two cases collide at Marchbanks, the Drury family seat of over four hundred years, where a series of unnerving events interrupt the peace and quiet of the snowy countryside. A body is discovered in the middle of a frozen pond without any means of getting there and a rifle is fired through a closed window, killing a man but not breaking the glass. Only Spector and his mastery of the art of misdirection can uncover the logical explanations for these impossible crimes. An atmospheric and puzzling traditional mystery that pays homage to the greatest writers of the genre’s Golden Age, Cabaret Macabre is the third book in Tom Mead’s Joseph Spector series, hailed by the Wall Street Journal as “a recipe for pure nostalgic pleasure.” The books can be enjoyed in any order.
Cabello de ángel
by Santos Unamuno, CarlosIII Premio Bubok de creación literaria 2011 A caballo entre el género negro y la política-ficción, Cabello de ángel retrata de forma certera los aspectos menos lustrosos de las sociedades democráticas contemporáneas. A nueve días de las elecciones generales de 2008, el ambiente político y social se va enrareciendo en España, algo bien visible tanto en los platós de televisión como en los bares, los taxis y los lugares de trabajo. Desde los micrófonos de la cadena CLEN, el afamado y controvertido locutor Ramiro Torres no ceja en sus ataques directos al gobierno socialista, hurgando una y otra vez en la herida del 11-M. Una estrategia que los mandos del partido en la oposición parecen no compartir. En una atmósfera cada vez más inflamable y a cuatro días de la consulta electoral, un asesinato inesperado y mediático contribuirá a revolver las aguas aún más. Es entonces cuando el subinspector Andrés Polo se irá adentrando en una complicada investigación por donde desfilará un carrusel de personajes reales y ficticios.
Cabin Fever
by Sheila ClaydonIn Sheila Claydon's Cabin Fever, published by Books We Love, the Osprey cruise ship is in trouble. Can Ellie Masters and Andy Smith solve the problem? When they join the ship in New Zealand they soon discover that it’s going to be hard work all the way to Australia. Not that either of them intend to let long hours get in the way of their blossoming love affair...until Ellie develops feet of clay..or is it Andy who is the problem? Is he really who he says he is? They joined the ship to help the crew, but now it’s Ellie and Andy who need help. Will they get it or is it already too late?