Frozen Heat (Nikki Heat Series #4)

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NYPD Homicide Detective Nikki Heat gets more mystery than she imagined when she arrives at her latest crime scene. The body of an unidentified woman has been found stabbed to death and stuffed inside a suitcase left sitting on a freezer truck. A startling enough death, but an even bigger shock comes when this new homicide surprisingly connects to the unsolved murder of Detective Heat's own mother. The gruesome killing of this Jane Doe launches Heat on a dangerous and emotional investigation, rekindling the cold ...
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Overview

NYPD Homicide Detective Nikki Heat gets more mystery than she imagined when she arrives at her latest crime scene. The body of an unidentified woman has been found stabbed to death and stuffed inside a suitcase left sitting on a freezer truck. A startling enough death, but an even bigger shock comes when this new homicide surprisingly connects to the unsolved murder of Detective Heat's own mother. The gruesome killing of this Jane Doe launches Heat on a dangerous and emotional investigation, rekindling the cold case that has haunted her since she was nineteen. 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 also digs into unexplored areas of her mother's background-areas Nikki has been afraid to confront before, but now must.

Facing relentless danger as someone targets her for the next kill, Heat'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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The entertaining fourth Nikki Heat thriller, ostensibly written by the mystery novelist character of the ABC-TV drama Castle, showcases the feisty relationship between Nikki, an NYPD homicide detective, and Jameson Rook, a journalist who featured in 2011's Heat Rises. At a crime scene on Manhattan's Upper West Side, Nikki examines a woman's frozen body found in a suitcase inside a refrigerated delivery truck. To her shock, Nikki recognizes the suitcase, which was stolen from her mother the night her mother was murdered years earlier. Since her mother's killer was never found, Nikki naturally thinks the new death may be her best chance yet of determining the truth. Fortunately, if implausibly, her superiors allow her to handle the investigation. The new case forces Nikki to learn more about her mother's life, in particular why she abandoned a promising classical music career. Diverting banter ("Isn't domestic spying illegal?" asks Nikki; "It is if you're doing it right," replies a former CIA agent) helps compensate for a less than credible main storyline. (Sept.)
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781401324445
  • Publisher: Hyperion
  • Publication date: 9/11/2012
  • Series: Nikki Heat Series , #4
  • Pages: 320
  • Sales rank: 17,458
  • Product dimensions: 6.30 (w) x 9.10 (h) x 1.10 (d)

Meet the Author

Richard Castle is the best-selling author of the Nikki Heat and Derrick Storm novels. He is played by actor Nathan Fillion. Tom Straw is an Emmy-nominated TV writer and producer. He has written and produced for the television shows COSBY, WHOOPI, GRACE UNDER FIRE, and more, and is currently writing for THE LATE LATE SHOW WITH CRAIG FERGUSON. He is the author of the mystery THE TRIGGER EPISODE.

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Customer Reviews

Average Rating 4.5
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  • Posted July 14, 2012

    Recommended - if you like Castle

    I liked reading this because I could just imagine the Richard Castle character on the Castle TV series writing it. You know his stuff is schlock and everyone loves it. What I didn't like is that this was just one part of a 3-part series. Just as it gets really interesting, you have to wait for the next part, which doesn't come out for months.

    7 out of 14 people found this review helpful.

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  • Posted June 10, 2012

    more from this reviewer

    Not yet released?

    I've not been able to read this book yet. I pre-ordered and it said the release is in September 2012.

    5 out of 29 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted September 16, 2012

    Awesome!!

    Best Nikki Heat book yet!!! Couldn't put it down and love the storyline, they just keep getting better. Just wish you wouldn't have to wait so long in between books to read the new one.

    2 out of 3 people found this review helpful.

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  • Posted June 10, 2012

    good read

    like all the books in this series as well as the TV show

    2 out of 7 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted March 25, 2013

    Another great read by Richard Castle . . .

    Frozen Heat pops with clever twists while keeping the characters realistic, flawed but lovable. Life with the jet-setter writer has its perks so the plot, while magical, is plausible. As local crimes are solved, tenacles of evidence that reach back to a decades old cold case worm their way into current puzzles of international intrigue. Hints of a compelling sequel tease the reader. Fellow mystery-crime readers are saying: We want more!

    1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted November 27, 2012

    The Best Castle book...so far!

    This is the BEST Castle book, so far! Hard to put this one down. Finally the answers you have been waiting for in the Castle series!

    1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted September 25, 2012

    Great

    Great book

    1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted September 22, 2012

    <3

    I <3 CASTLE!!!!!!

    1 out of 4 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted September 12, 2012

    Love it .

    Love all of the nikki heat series. I hope there is more to come

    1 out of 4 people found this review helpful.

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  • Posted May 18, 2013

    more from this reviewer

    I have enjoyed all the Nikki Heat books. I, of coarse, see the (

    I have enjoyed all the Nikki Heat books. I, of coarse, see the (TV) characters, Richard Castle and Detective Beckett, as I read. I love the show as well as all the books and recommend them all.

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  • Posted April 28, 2013

    Good read. Highly recommmended.

    I liked the way thus series cimbines a touch of comedy with mystery. This one definatley followed the " Castle" tv series theme. I could imagine each of the characters in the show playing out the parts. This book also had me guessing and changing my mind on the "who done it." The end keeps you wanting more.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted March 8, 2013

    Number 1 castle fan

    Great book even beter tv show

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  • Anonymous

    Posted March 1, 2013

    A rp and reviewer

    I love to rp on my nook but rp on Richrd Castels books yall should be ashamed of urselfs!!!!!!

    0 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted February 28, 2013

    Sleetpaw

    Silver tom with gray stripes. Fast, agile, and good at hunting. Very friendly.

    Bio- I was born from two rogues. I lived with them until dogs killed them. They hid me in a crack in the ground so the dogs couldnt get to me. I hid there, starving, until one day a patrol found me and took me to Icestar. Since I had no family, Icestar took me in.

    0 out of 2 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted February 27, 2013

    Lionwhisker

    Chubby tom with sand colored pelt and green eyes he knows the best places for food and knows the besr ways to eat it

    0 out of 2 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted February 27, 2013

    Thrushfang

    Thrushfang. Black pelt. Blue eyes. He is a kind, caring cat and knows how to be both warrior and enough cat.

    0 out of 2 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted February 24, 2013

    Leopardsky

    Gender-female Eyes- Green Coat- of a leopards, a white under belly Personality- brave, loyal, trustworthy, honest, feirce, and aggressive Mate- none but looking Kits- none Previous clans- Horseclan and Nightclan Position- warrior Bio- she was born an outsider, her mother in a clan and her father a loner, she never really fit in as a kit no one respected her. When she became an apprentice, when she trained she was feirce and everyone started to respect her, in her first battle every cat she faced ended up dead, her clan nightclan fell apart soon after she became a warrior, the decied to join horseclan, there she had two tough battles.. she lost her clan. And found this clan.

    0 out of 2 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted February 24, 2013

    Moonkit

    Black as night fur electric blue eyes she has a few unknown powers

    0 out of 3 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted February 23, 2013

    Bios

    Icestar- fluffy white she-cat with blue eyes.

    0 out of 2 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted February 12, 2013

    Omg

    Best book tv show was better tho

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