CSI:Miami-Cult Following by Donn Cortez
Part of 50bookchallenge, book #8 (2007).
Lieutenant Horatio Caine of the Miami-Dade Crime Lab is called in to investigate a mysterious death at an organic eatery. He finds the victim, waiter Phillip Mulrooney, bent over a stainless steel toiler, his clothing shredded. There are burn marks on his face and cell phone fragments scattered around, and his shoes are blown off his feet. Incredible as it seems, the initial evidence points to death by lighting strike.
The staff at The Earthly Garden believe Mulrooney's death is an act of God-punishment for straying from the Vitality Method, their spiritual philosophy that inner beauty can be revealed by nurturing the physical and spiritual.
The only philosophy Lieutenant Horatio Caine believes in is justice for the victim-and he'll move heaven and earth to get it.
Oh my God! I finally finished this book! I took me a month to read this book mainly because I can only read it during my 30-minute trip on public transport, so it was slow going.
This is the first CSI:Miami book I managed to finish. The first one was Florida Getaway and I put that one off until later lest it put me off reading. What interest me the most about this book is that there's a balance between Horatio's 'super-cop' routine and vulnerability.
I mentioned before that I like the first seasons of CSI:Miami better because sometimes we see Horatio struggling to figure out the case before finally putting the pieces of the puzzle together.
The puzzle presented in this book is quite a one. From a homocide case that looked like an accident (always the best way to kill someone), to drug smuggling and cults, all wrapped up into one coherent package. I get to learn a little about cults psychology here, about hash, hash planting, and a little about the relationship between Wolfe and Delko.
It's a good CSI:Miami book, I wish they'd turn it into a TV episode. They may have done it already, for all I know. I still haven't seen season 2 and 3 of CSI:Miami after all... Might look up Donn Cortez's other CSI:Miami books.
Related links:
Donn Cortez website
Lieutenant Horatio Caine of the Miami-Dade Crime Lab is called in to investigate a mysterious death at an organic eatery. He finds the victim, waiter Phillip Mulrooney, bent over a stainless steel toiler, his clothing shredded. There are burn marks on his face and cell phone fragments scattered around, and his shoes are blown off his feet. Incredible as it seems, the initial evidence points to death by lighting strike.
The staff at The Earthly Garden believe Mulrooney's death is an act of God-punishment for straying from the Vitality Method, their spiritual philosophy that inner beauty can be revealed by nurturing the physical and spiritual.
The only philosophy Lieutenant Horatio Caine believes in is justice for the victim-and he'll move heaven and earth to get it.
Oh my God! I finally finished this book! I took me a month to read this book mainly because I can only read it during my 30-minute trip on public transport, so it was slow going.
This is the first CSI:Miami book I managed to finish. The first one was Florida Getaway and I put that one off until later lest it put me off reading. What interest me the most about this book is that there's a balance between Horatio's 'super-cop' routine and vulnerability.
I mentioned before that I like the first seasons of CSI:Miami better because sometimes we see Horatio struggling to figure out the case before finally putting the pieces of the puzzle together.
The puzzle presented in this book is quite a one. From a homocide case that looked like an accident (always the best way to kill someone), to drug smuggling and cults, all wrapped up into one coherent package. I get to learn a little about cults psychology here, about hash, hash planting, and a little about the relationship between Wolfe and Delko.
It's a good CSI:Miami book, I wish they'd turn it into a TV episode. They may have done it already, for all I know. I still haven't seen season 2 and 3 of CSI:Miami after all... Might look up Donn Cortez's other CSI:Miami books.
Related links:
Donn Cortez website