I was introduced to the TV show CSI by my wife - some-ways through the showing of the third season here in the UK. She had told me that this series was superb, but as I do not tend to watch crime shows so had not watched any of the episodes. One day though I thought that if this series was even partway as good as Lesley told me then perhaps I should take a look-see.

And, anyway, this series was mainly centred around the science involved in solving the crimes. So as a great fan of science I though – well, why not?

I'm glad I did, since the time I first took the chance I have watched many, many episodes, of the original series, and of the Miami and New York spin-off series. This however was the first of the tie-in novels I have so far read. But, as a fan of TV-SF and a frequent reader of tie-in novels I suppose this was an inevitable step.

Set after Ecklie's splitting of the original CSI team, this book sees the graveyard shift (headed by Gil Grissom) investigating the murder of a wealthy elderly lady living alone in a guarded gated community. Whilst Catherine Willows swing shift is investigating the death of a middle aged working class woman found dead in her apartment.

Although these two crimes initially seem to be completely unconnected, as the two teams delve further connections between them become apparent.

Okay, this last part probably will not come as much of a surprise to you – and in many ways it could have been a serious flaw in the novel but the author here has turned this into a strength of the novel. It's the sign of a good author.

Now given that Max Allan Collins normally writes crime fiction means I am unlikely to read any of his non-CSI books, but I have the consolation of there being other CSI books. This was a good read, I look forward to others in the series.