Goodreads Summary:
Hot on the heels of Richard Castle's #1 New York Times bestseller Heat Rises comes the fourth novel in the Nikki Heat series, Frozen Heat. Nikki Heat and Jameson Rook are together again, facing an unsolved murder mystery that has haunted Nikki for ten years.
NYPD Homicide Detective Nikki Heat arrives at her latest crime scene to find an unidentified woman stabbed to death and stuffed inside a suitcase left on a Manhattan street. Nikki is in for a big shock when this new homicide connects to the unsolved murder of her own mother. Paired once again with her romantic and investigative partner, top journalist Jameson Rook, Heat works to solve the mystery of the body in the suitcase while she is forced to confront unexplored areas of her mother's background.
Facing relentless danger as someone targets her for the next kill, Nikki's search will unearth painful family truths, expose a startling hidden life, and cause Nikki to reexamine her own past. Heat's passionate quest takes her and Rook from the back alleys of Manhattan to the avenues of Paris, trying to catch a ruthless killer. The question is, now that her mother's cold case has unexpectedly thawed, will Nikki Heat finally be able to solve the dark mystery that has been her demon for ten years?
My Thoughts:
I started reading this the week before finals, which I really shouldn't have. It took me a while to get through this read, not because the book isn't good but because I was burned out from school. I held off on writing this review until my head was no longer fuzzy from the semester.
I really loved some of the inside jokes in this book, for being a fan of Nathan Fillion I caught some humor that not everyone else would catch. I liked the relationship development between Nikki and Rook. I wasn't a huge fan on where they took the story of Nikki's Mother's murder. I didn't hate it, but I didn't love it either. It felt a little melodramatic and kind of predictable, but not in a bad way. I guess I am lukewarm about where the story went but it was well written and entertaining.
I would recommend this book to fans of the show Castle and anyone who digs the cop books.
While writing this review I was listening to an episode of The West Wing.
