CSI: New York: Four Walls (Mass Market Paperback)

by Keith R. A. DeCandido (Author)
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Product Description
Detectives 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.

About the Author
Keith R.A. DeCandido was born and raised in New York City to a family of librarians. He has written over two dozen novels, as well as short stories, nonfiction, eBooks, and comic books, most of them in various media universes, among them Star Trek, World of Warcraft, Starcraft, Marvel Comics, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Serenity, Resident Evil, Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda, Farscape, Xena, and Doctor Who. His original novel Dragon Precinct was published in 2004, and he's also edited several anthologies, among them the award-nominated Imaginings and two Star Trek anthologies. Keith is also a musician, having played percussion for the bands the Don't Quit Your Day Job Players, the Boogie Knights, and the Randy Bandits, as well as several solo acts. In what he laughingly calls his spare time, Keith follows the New York Yankees and practices kenshikai karate. He still lives in New York City with his girlfriend and two insane cats.

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Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 352 pages
• Publisher: Pocket Star (April 29, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1416513434
• ISBN-13: 978-1416513438
• Product Dimensions: 6.7 x 4.2 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #289,462 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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4 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars You Can't Go Wrong With DeCandido, May 8, 2008

By	Diane Bellomo (Baltimore, MD United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This book reads exactly like a television episode, with two important and WONderful differences: It's chock full of lovely narration and buckets of backstory, two things missing from any episode you might watch, simply because there isn't enough time.
As many of us already know, in the Star Trek universe, Keith is King of the backstory, and this CSI novel is no different in that respect. We are privvy to the fears and dreams of the main characters we know and love, and what's more, Keith also takes us inside the minds of the criminals, giving us information unknown to the detectives and CSI's.

The story, just like many of the episodes, centers around two wildly disparate crime scenes, one in a prison and one in a bakery, and in the end, the crimes are solved using a number of cool techniques, clever thinking, and plain old dumb luck.

Add to that Stella Bonasera's "fifty-megawatt smile" (which can only be fully appreciated by actually watching Melina Kanakaredes deliver it on the show) and honest-to-God Italian cannoli, and, boom, you've got yourself a weeener.

2 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars "Bore" Walls, August 1, 2008

By	MRose "smaurie" (Springfield, MA USA) - See all my reviews

This book seems to have been written by a 14 year old. Just the scene which is described above drove me bonkers. To be honest I stopped around page 30. What is the purpose of Flack's buddy pestering him to take his pain meds? Maybe it plays into the story later but I'll never know. The Flack I watch on TV is not the Flack in this book. Poor Eddie Cahill.

2 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars True to the show, June 4, 2008

By	Dennis R. Cohen (Spokane, WA USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

DeCandido continues to weave stories and portray the characters that are consistent with the TV show, so if you like the show, you'll like the books, including this one. "Four Walls" is, in my opinion, equivalent to one of the better episodes -- about an A- or B+ if you grade the episodes on a curve.