Few need an introduction to Richard Castle, the charismatic, cheeky mystery writer who heads the cast of ABC’s popular Castle, now in season 4. On the television program Castle has a bit of an ongoing sizzle with NYPD Detective Kate Beckett. Now, in the books, Heat Rises being the third, Jameson Rook, a great looking Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, stands in for TV’s Castle and Nikki Heat replaces Kate Beckett. Now, that may sound a bit confusing, but what isn’t at all confusing is how exciting these stories are.
With Heat Rises Nikki finds herself alone and hunted. It all began on what seemed like a usual day for a NYC policewoman, although she never knows what she’ll find behind a door. Behind this specific door she found Pleasure Bound, a bondage parlor and a corpse - “naked and bound at the wrists and ankles to an X-shaped vertical wooden frame known as the St. Andrew’s Cross.” The man is unknown but Nikki’s practiced eye notes a large midsection indicating that he probably sits a lot, no “farmer’s tan” so he was indoors most of the time, bushy eyebrows leading her to believe he was either a bachelor or a widower. Good calls - he was a priest. Why would he be killed at a bondage club?
When she goes to his rectory she learns that another office had preceded her and done a search - her mentor, Captain Montrose. While he had the authority to do that - why?
To complicate matters even further Rook has returned, and the attraction between them is stronger than ever.
Castle doesn’t disappoint on the small screen or in Heat Rises - enjoy!
- Gail Cooke
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