If New York Police captain Nikki Heat is acting like she's seen a ghost, it's for good reason. Her mother, Cynthia, presumed dead for seventeen years, has resurfaced-but the threat that made her go into hiding is as grave as ever.
Derrick Storm is returning from a rock climbing vacation in the Swiss Alps, when the plane spirals into a nose-dive. Storm heroically saves the plane and all the people on board. Sadly, Storm isn't available to come to the aid of the three other planes that have crashed under similar circumstances, killing everyone on board.
An ISIS-style beheading of a journalist, carried out by a New York City group, 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.
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 power broker, fights a platoon of urban mercenaries, and clashes with the man she loves. Detective Heat knows her job is to solve murders. She just worrie sthat solving this one will be the death of her relationship.
Fast-paced and full of intrigue, Heat Rises pairs the tough and sexy NYPD Homicide Detective Nikki Heat with hotshot reporter Jameson Rook in New York Times bestselling author Richard Castle's most thrilling mystery yet. 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.
Picking up where Frozen Heat left off, top 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.
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?
The tenth Nikki Heat novel, set in the universe of the Castle TV series.
When an illegal immigrant seemingly falls from the sky, NYPD Homicide Detective Nikki Heat's investigation into his death quickly captures the imagination of her boyfriend, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Jameson Rook. But when Rook's inquiry concludes that Detective Heat has arrested the wrong man for the murder, everything changes...
An infamous gossip columnist is fatally stabbed in the back. The story circles a Yankees pitcher, a pop star, and an actor's apparently accidental overdose. Nikki Heat and hotshot reporter Jameson Rook trade barbs and innuendos while on the trail of a murderer.
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, throughout the world, high-level bankers are being tortured and murdered by his old nemesis Gregor Derrick, Derrick Storm is called in by the CIA to figure out who Volkov is working for and why, and, with the help of a beautiful and mysterious foreign agent, uncovers a plot that could destroy the global economy.
A Derrick storm omnibus. Four years after he was presumed dead, Derrick Storm- the man who made Richard Castle a bestseller-is back, lured out of retirement to assist on a high-profile kidnapping case in Washington, D C But Storm suspects there's more at stake than the life of a senator's son...
This new mass market premium edition features a chapter from Richard Castle's upcoming hardcover, HEAT RISES, along with two chapters from NAKED HEAT and a conversation with the author. The story begins with the shocking death of a New York real estate tycoon on a Manhattan sidewalk, followed by a trophy wife narrowly escaping a brazen attack. As mobsters and moguls present their alibis, another murder occurs amidst a record heat wave, leading to a tense investigation that uncovers the fatal secrets of the wealthy. NYPD Detective Nikki Heat, tough and passionate about justice, leads one of the city's top homicide squads. Her challenge intensifies when the commissioner assigns Jameson Rook, a handsome Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, to ride along for a story on the police. Rook's wise-cracking and meddling complicate her investigation into the murdered tycoon, while the undeniable spark between them adds another layer of tension. As Nikki delves deeper into the case, she must navigate both the dangerous secrets of the elite and her growing feelings for Rook, making for a gripping and heated journey.
This 'adaptation' of Derrick Storm's first novel takes the hero from the gritty world of the private eye all the way to the globe-hopping intrigue of the CIA
Nadchodzący Sztorm, Wściekły Sztorm i Krwawy Sztorm przeobrażają się w Ostateczny Sztorm! Po raz pierwszy pełne wydanie w postaci książki papierowej trylogii wcześniej wydanej jedynie jako eBooki. Po czterech latach od swojej upozorowanej śmierci, Derrick Storm – agent CIA, który rozsławił Richarda Castle’a i sprawił, że jego powieści stały się bestsellerami – powraca, wyciągnięty z ukrycia i wcześniejszej “emerytury” przez swojego szefa, aby przeprowadzić śledztwo w sprawie głośnego porwania. Ale Storm wie, że gra idzie o znacznie wyższą stawkę niż tylko życie syna senatora…
Die Ehe. Ein zweischneidiges Schwert, zumindest für Nikki Heat. Ihr Gatte, der preisgekrönte Journalist Jameson Rook, bringt sie manchmal auf eine Weise zur Weißglut, wie es niemand sonst in ihrem Leben jemals getan hat. Doch vor allem liebt sie ihn von ganzem Herzen und würde alles tun, um ihn zu beschützen. Genau das hat sie vor gar nicht langer Zeit tun müssen. Und es hat sie fast alles gekostet. Nun soll Rook Gastprofessor an seiner alten Universität werden. Kurz nach seiner Ankunft auf dem Campus wird eine Reporterin der Zeitung tot aufgefunden. Nackt. In Rooks Bett. Es ist nicht Nikkis Stil, einen solchen Verrat von einem Mann hinzunehmen. Jameson und sie hatten während ihrer komplizierten Beziehung viele Konflikte auszutragen, aber noch keinen wie diesen. Hat ihr Mann Geheimnisse vor ihr oder kann sie ihm vertrauen? Um das herauszufinden, beschließt sie, Jamesons Theorie von einer Geheimgesellschaft an der Uni Glauben zu schenken. Was sie herausfindet, stellt ihr investigatives Können sowie ihre Ehe auf eine harte Probe.
483pages. 19x12x4cm. Broché.
