Frozen Heat
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Average rating3.5
La intrépida y sexy detective Nikki Heat y el famoso periodista Rook Jameson vuelven a estar juntos investigando un misterioso asesinato sin resolver, un caso muy personal para Nikki y con el que lleva obsesionada diez años. La detective de homicidios del Departamento de Policía de Nueva York Nikki Heat llega a su última escena del crimen, en la que aparece una mujer desconocida apuñalada hasta la muerte y metida en una maleta abandonada en una calle de Manhattan. Nikki entra en un gran shock cuando se da cuenta de que este asesinato está conectado a la muerte no resuelta de su propia madre. Una vez más, junto a su compañero sentimental y de investigación, el periodista Jameson Rook, Nikki volverá a trabajar para resolver el misterio del cuerpo de la maleta, mientras se ve obligada a enfrentarse a los resquicios desconocidos de la vida de su madre. Además del brutal peligro que la apunta a ella como la siguiente víctima, la búsqueda de Nikki comienza a destapar dolorosas verdades familiares, a exponer secretos sorprendentes y a hacer que la detective reexamine sus recuerdos. Las preguntas sobre su pasado la llevan a ella y a Rook desde los callejones de Manhattan hasta las avenidas de París en busca de un despiadado asesino. La pregunta es, ahora que el caso sin resolver de su madre se ha descongelado inesperadamente, ¿podrá Nikki resolver por fin el oscuro misterio que la ha atormentado durante diez años? La «Serie Castle» está compuesta por los libros escritos por Richard Castle, protagonista de la serie de televisión Castle, que triunfa con más de 1.500.000 de espectadores. Reseña: «Castle convierte la trama de Calor Helado en un interesante tobogán de giros y cambios argumentales que acrecienta la sensación de intriga y asegura el interés del lector». Revista Krítica
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5 primary booksNikki Heat
Nikki Heat is a 5-book series with 10 primary works first released in 2008 with contributions by Richard Castle.
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I have read the previous “Nikki Heat” books and like the other ones, this was a fun read. Every time I read one of these books, I picture the cast from the TV show “Castle” in my head playing the characters. Just when you think you know what's going to happen, the story takes an abrupt and shocking turn...like in the tv series. If you have seen the show, you can pretty much predict the ebbs and flows of the story, which is not a bad thing. This book would be a great pick up for mystery/police serial fans.
3 stars This wasn't the most exciting Nikki Heat novel. They're trying to solve her mother's murder and it just drags and the ending is pretty anti-climactic. I do want to rewatch Castle now though :p
I was not expecting a cliffhanger, especially in the last book of a four-book deal! I‰ЫЄm interested in seeing how the show deals with the book (if at all) and what connections we can make between Heat‰ЫЄs mom‰ЫЄs murder and Beckett‰ЫЄs mom‰ЫЄs murder (if any). I have heard that the premiere will end on an ambiguous note re: Johanna Beckett‰ЫЄs case, which is unlikely to be a cliffhanger. Maybe there will be nothing but I really like thinking about how the books and the show correspond, especially since the books now seem to be getting into territory that reflects real life more closely than usual.
I found it really interesting that Heat‰ЫЄs mom‰ЫЄs case actually seems to be partly about Castle working through the possibilities of his own father being in the CIA. That‰ЫЄs one of the ways this book even more clearly shows what Dana Delany‰ЫЄs character observed way back in season 2 – that Nikki Heat is part Beckett, part Castle. I‰ЫЄve always thought of Nikki Heat as a fantasy version of Beckett, but it‰ЫЄs more complicated than that.
I wish there were some way for us to know when Castle is writing his books in the context of the show. Was he already writing Frozen Heat by the time Heat Rises was published? Especially given the Storm e-books he released over the summer? I read the earlier books without knowing the earlier seasons very well, so this was the first time I was able to connect elements of the story more clearly to elements of the cases in season four. So obviously he was writing throughout the season and afterward, but I want more details or at least hints! When did he include that part about Rook and Heat having the ‰ЫПI love you‰Ыќ moment pass them by? Was he still writing and making revisions over late spring and summer when he and Beckett were together? Did he write the first chapter with Heat helping Rook with his rehab while Beckett kept Castle away while she was recuperating over the summer? Maybe it‰ЫЄs just because I know first hand how real life can show up (clearly or obscurely) in one‰ЫЄs fiction, and how writing fiction can be a way of working things out in your own life. And the show has never taken much of a chance to explore that – maybe we‰ЫЄll get to see it now that Castle and Beckett are together, but maybe we won‰ЫЄt.
