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Summary: This Was The Best
Review: Catherine, Warrick and Nick are in Las Vegas investigating the murder of a woman whose body was discovered in Lake Mead National Forest. Grissom and Sara travel to upstate New York for a forensic conference where they stumble upon a dead body in the woods next to their mountain hotel. And then a blizzard hits and they are cut off from the outside world. Collins handles the background information on the characters without being tedious and although this is the third book in the series, I think it can stand alone. Both of the cases in this book are excellent but the makeshift lab they set up in Grissom's hotel room is particularly ingenious. I have enjoyed all three of the CSI books, but I think Cold Burn was my favorite. I look forward to more CSI stories from Max Collins.
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Summary: A Must for Grissom/Sidle Shippers
Review: Fans of CSI and shippers alike will rejoice in this book...The title Cold Burn has alot of irony in the story, and a weekend of Sara and Grissom away in NY isnt too bad either...very well written by the way
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Summary: If you love the show, this book is for you
Review: Great book, just like an episode of the show. It is great already knowing the characters...when the author describes character quirks, you can actually picture EXACTLY what he is talking about
I love CSI and I loved the book
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Summary: Would be 5 out of 5 but . . .
Review: Great story, although the writing is a little bit choppy and the character developement somewhat flat. Where this book really fails is the inordinate use of stereotypes and glib commentary. For instance, I know many Americans wrongly believe Canada is a frozen hinterland where the people ride dog sleds and end every sentence with "eh?". While I loved the intelligence displayed in the character of the Mounty from Saskatchewan, and it is true that we have winter in Canada (although Minnesota gets it worse and they are the equivalent of two states lower than where I live), I simply could not excuse the inappropriate use of the word eh. Far too many sentences ended with eh. Most Canadians don't even say eh, let alone those who are highly educated such as a forensic scientist must be. The myth of the Canadian accent is dead. Sure, amazon.com, edit my post, why don't you? I bet those people who didn't find my review helpful are american too.
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Summary: The Best Yet
Review: I am an avid reader, yet there are few book that I just can't put down. This was one of them. I have seen nearly every C.S.I. episode and was thrilled, if a little apprehensive, to find them in paperback. The author has done his homework and not only portrays the characters accurately, he gives them new depths. I love his references to old cases and characters. Cold Burn in my opinion is the best of the series to date. Catherine, Nick and Warrick are faced with a truly challenging puzzle when a frozen body turns up in the middle of a state park. They discover that the body is that of a woman who has been missing for over a year, and are left with few clues and fewer leads. Even worse Ecklie and his team 'mishandled' the original case, but Warrick manages to find a key clue that they overlooked (and failed to inadvertently destroy). For a cold case the suspense starts building on the first page and leads to a dramatic and surprising conclusion. In the meantime, Grissom and Sara are off to a picturesque resort in snowy New York State to lecture at a forensic convention. They end up learning far more about winter crime scenes than they ever expected when they stumble on a fresh body. Naturally they were out in the freezing cold not to enjoy the scenery (well Sara was) but to collect winter insects. The plot may not move as quickly and the characters have the least personality but the use of "old fashioned" evidence processing is highly entertaining. A wonderful book, a fabulous series, I look forward to the next book. Thank you Max Collins, now I can take C.S.I. anywhere and 'visit' them any time!
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Summary: Good, but a bit boring
Review: I have to agree with "A reader from Saskatchewan, Canada". The character development was not there. That's probably to keep in line with the way the TV series goes (you rarely get a glimpse of the characters "off the clock"). But in a book, you have a lot more liberties to get more inside the head of the lead characters. After reading this third book in the series, I realized I didn't quite like the way Collins ran time together. I mean, you're reading along and all of a sudden, the next paragraph takes you two or three hours in the future. I know it's nit-picky, but I usually expect a gap or other visual indicator between such paragraphs so you know you're "fast-forwarding" to a later event. I would say this was my least-favorite of the series so far. Too much time casting footprints and such in the snow for me. My favorite is Sin City (closest resemblance to an actual TV episode if you ask me).
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Summary: good but not interesting
Review: I read double dealer in two days and it took me a week to read this one. The Sara/Grissom part was pretty boring and the bit about putting eh after every sentence of the Canadian CSI was a bit overdone. As a Canadian myself, i can garanty that no one says that. The Las Vegas story was ok but not much. What I find different in this serie it's that you can't read the stories has any other mystery, you arrive at the solution at the same time as the CSI, if the story is well written, you don't really get as big a surprise as you would get by reading a cosy but it can still be suspensful.
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Summary: I wouldn't say its good, but I wouldn't say its bad either
Review: I really enjoyed this book. I liked that we were following a case in two different states. I also enjoyed the information we learned from the Canadian Mounty about crime scenes in very different weather and circumstances than Las Vegas. I believe that was the reason we were getting the 'lessons' from New York even though some people found the 100 pages of guarding a dead body boring. We already have the desert and the beach. Who knows, maybe they will create a CSI: Canada series and we can have a whole different set of crime scene scenarios. Sounds good to me! If you love CSI as much as I do, you will love this book.
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Summary: Great Book!
Review: I really enjoyed this book. I liked that we were following a case in two different states. I also enjoyed the information we learned from the Canadian Mounty about crime scenes in very different weather and circumstances than Las Vegas. I believe that was the reason we were getting the 'lessons' from New York even though some people found the 100 pages of guarding a dead body boring. We already have the desert and the beach. Who knows, maybe they will create a CSI: Canada series and we can have a whole different set of crime scene scenarios. Sounds good to me! If you love CSI as much as I do, you will love this book.
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Summary: Excellent addition to the series
Review: I've read all of the CSI books by Mr. Collins and I think this may be the closest to the series out of the lot. I thoroughly enjoyed the case Catherine, Nick and Warrick were working on. It had many suspects and several revelations that made me raise my eyebrows in surprise. The Grissom-Sara case, on the other hand... well, let's just say I think Mr. Collins has gotten into those 'cozy mysteries' he had Sara reading in the book. It was slow, in my opinion. Extremely slow. By the time he finally got into the clues that led to solving the case, the reader had already deduced what had happened. But let's face it... not every forensics case can be an edge-of-your-seat thrill ride. I still say people should definitely buy this book. The characterization was great and the surprises in Catherine's case made up for what Grissom's lacked.
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