Download or read book Harm for the Holidays Misgivings written by Donn Cortez and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2006-11-28 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christmas in Miami the city is wrapped in its own unique festive cheer, and countless children breathlessly await the arrival of Santa Claus. Except this year there are hundreds of Santas. Miami has been invaded by the Red Menace. An annual gathering of hundreds of red-suited, jolly old fat men and women swarm over the city, comical and annoying, until one of them turns up dead. In what should be a time of goodwill to all the Miami-Dade Crime Lab finds that what appears to be the simplest of crimes hides darker motives. Who would want to kill Santa? Who would go to such lengths to conceal the identity of a victim that they would decapitate him and remove both his hands? And how does a simple convenience store robbery suddenly spiral into an international incident of kidnapping and murder?

Download or read book CSI Miami Harm For the Holidays 2 written by Donn Cortez and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-12-11 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A ship pauses in Miami on a winter holiday cruise. What could be more ordinary? Until, that is, the ship's magician is accused of murder and identified as a terrorist known as the Hare. But there's only one problem: he has an airtight alibi. At the time of the killing, he was on board ship miles away from the crime scene, performing in front of several hundred witnesses. While the Miami Dade Crime Lab pulls out all the stops to find the real Hare, Lieutenant Horatio Cane narrowly escapes death when a missile blows up his Hummer. There is clearly more than a simple murder at stake - could this be the opening salvo of a more sinister terrorist plan?

Download or read book CSI Nevada Rose written by Jerome Preisler and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-12-11 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Nevada Rose' Deville was one of the most beautiful and desired sports groupies in Las Vegas, a fixture at the trendiest casinos and clubs on the Strip. But the endless party comes to an end the morning her nude body is found bound and gagged in her home. As crime scene investigators Catherine Willows and Warrick Brown dig deeper, all the evidence points to Mark Baker, aka 'The Fireball' -- a hard-throwing major-league baseball pitcher and collector of gorgeous women who recently conducted a very public affair with the deceased. Meanwhile, miles away on the grounds of a world-class championship golf course, Gil Grissom is probing the macabre discovery of a John Doe -- an intense investigation which will unearth a web of jealousy and distrust, fuelled by a bitter sibling rivalry over a 'Nevada Rose' of a very different nature...

Download or read book CSI Miami Cut and Run written by Donn Cortez and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-12-11 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Murder and smuggling are just the beginning in the seventh novel based on the global smash hit CSI spin-off series. In a field outside the Everglades a hot air balloon comes to land, the lone passenger in the basket dead, an apparent suicide. Then a bullet-riddled yacht limps into the Port of Miami, where the sole survivor, a gravely wounded hijacker, reveals that there are illegal drugs on board. It's just another day for the Miami Dade CSI team -- until the body count is added to by the death of a well-known local writer. Before long, Horatio Caine and his team are caught up in a dangerous web of intrigue and murder that reaches all the way to Castro's Cuba

Download or read book CSI Crime Scene Investigation Skin Deep written by Jerome Preisler and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-08-31 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A retired judge has been found brutally murdered on the outskirts of Las Vegas, complete with a macabre yet masterfully intricate tattoo on his face . . . the third seemingly random victim of the mysterious kidnapper dubbed by law enforcement as the “Tattoo Man.” The judge wasn’t the first person to have been abducted, drugged, and permanently altered with tattoos and body modification . . . but he was the first to wind up dead. At the same time, several other deceased are turning up all over Sin City with their body art mercilessly removed—and the timing would seem to suggest to those in authority that all of these crimes are somehow related. But Las Vegas’s top crime scene investigators—Catherine Willows, Ray Langston, Nick Stokes, Sara Sidle, and Greg Sanders—aren’t jumping to any conclusions, as they attempt to connect the dots by entering the secretive and tight-knit body art community—one that is intensely wary of outsiders. . . .

Download or read book CSI Crime Scene Investigation Blood Quantum written by Jeff Mariotte and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-02-23 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Las Vegas team of investigators has its hands full following a free-spending night at an exclusive nightclub which leaves the chairman of the Cloud Mountain Paiute Tribe dead. Already surrounded by controversy, the victim had a message scrawled in his own blood at the scene that would indicate a crime of revenge—and members of the chairman’s inner circle aren’t talking, which leads to a vicious cycle of violence and murder.... ?

Download or read book CSI Crime Scene Investigation Dark Sundays written by Donn Cortez and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-05-25 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lavish penthouse party on top of a Vegas hotel and casino plays host to a bizarre set-up to murder in which a security guard is trapped and killed in a private elevator—and the body soon vanishes . . . leading crime scene investigators Nick Stokes and Greg Sanders straight to an uncanny circus troupe with deadly connections to none other than the Russian mafia. In the meantime, Ray Langston and Catherine Willows are called to a psychiatric facility where two patients have just escaped after attacking an orderly. One of the escaped patients, an Iraq war veteran, managed to smuggle in a military-grade nerve gas, inducing realistic and shared three-dimensional illusions and hallucinations . . . and Ray and Catherine must race against time in order to find two very dangerous individuals now roaming freely on the streets of Las Vegas. . . .

Download or read book CSI Crime Scene Investigation The Killing Jar written by Donn Cortez and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-11-24 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A teenager is found dead in his motel room, the cause of death: millipede poison...Now crime scene investigator Gil Grissom must aid CSI's Nick Stokes and Riley Adams against a serial killer whose knowledge of entomology rivals his own -- a brutal murderer who is not only using insects as the tools of destruction, but actually modeling the attacks after their behavior.... In the meantime, CSIs Catherine Willows and Greg Sanders must investigate a bizarre death, where the victim had gotten mixed up with two very different groups of people -- one involved in using and dealing crystal meth, the other an avant-garde group of artists -- a collision of subcultures where everyone is a suspect and nothing is as it seems....

Download or read book CSI NY Four Walls written by Keith R. A. DeCandido and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-12-11 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Detectives Mac Taylor, Danny Messer, Sheldon Hawkes and Don Flack are called in to investigate a double-homicide at a medium security facility on Staten Island. The prison has been witness to a lot of racially-motivated tensions and it appears that things have finally boiled over in a lethal fashion. One of the murders seems to be an open-and-shut case -- a prisoner gets a shiv in his ribs and everyone sees it happen -- but the other is more of a puzzle. At first glance it appears that the victim was killed with a blunt instrument to the head while he was working out in the weights room -- but the CSI team's lab work uncovers something very different... Meanwhile, Detectives Stella Bonasera, Lindsay Monroe and Jennifer Angell look into the murder of a young woman who worked at a popular Italian bakery in the Bronx. There's a likely suspect, one who's been seen flirting with the victim and has a rap sheet for attempted rape -- but Stella isn't sure that everything is what it seems…

Download or read book CSI In Extremis written by Ken Goddard and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-12-11 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aruthless and expertly trained contract killer is on assignment in Nevada's remote Desert National Wildlife Range... and he deliberately sets in motion a series of seemingly unconnected events that will test the skills of Gill Grissom and his team of CSIs -- Catherine Willows, Nick Strokes, Warrick Brown, Sara Sidle, and Greg Sanders -- to their limits. For all is not as it appears in this federal refuge, as law enforcement and lawbreakers alike are quickly caught up in a growing crime scene that leads to a deadly game of one-upmanship.

Download or read book CSI Crime Scene Investigation Shock Treatment written by Greg Cox and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-11-30 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happens when a reality TV series gets a true dose of reality? A staged prank for a hit scare show has gone horribly wrong with an actor now dead and production halted indefinitely. As the graveyard shift of Sin City’s best crime scene investigators—including Catherine Willows, Ray Langston, Nick Stokes, Sara Sidle, and Greg Sanders— digs deeper behind the scenes, more questions than answers pile up: Was the botched prank’s set-up simply a case of carelessness on the producers’ part resulting in a tragic accident, or did someone really orchestrate an elaborate scheme for revenge and murder?

Download or read book CSI Miami Right to Die written by Jeff Mariotte and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-12-11 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adrug buy goes bad, an innocent bystander is fatally shot, and a local gang blames their rivals and vows vengeance. Unless Horatio Caine and his team can fnd out who was the shooter, they are going to have a gang war on their hands. Meanwhile a domestic terrorist who goes by the name of 'Baby Boomer' blows up the home of a prominent Miami doctor, and the Feds are asking Caine to help them locate the bomber. The team is stretched to the limit with these two high-profile cases, both of them in the unrelenting glare of the media spotlight...

Download or read book CSI Headhunter written by Greg Cox and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-10-28 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A package with no return address is delivered to the University of Nevada's anthropology department, and a genuine shrunken head is inside. At first, Gil Grissom and his team consider it a grisly relic, but soon evidence points out that it is, in fact, a modern-day murder. Original.

Download or read book CSI Brass in Pocket written by Jeff Mariotte and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-12-11 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enter the world of the little-known and even less understood heroes of police work in Las Vegas -- the forensic investigators. Led by veteran Gil Grisson, the remarkable team assigned to the Criminalistics Bureau's graveyard shift must combine cutting-edge scientific methods with old-fashioned detective savvy as they work to untangle the evidence behind the yellow police tape. Far from the glittering lights and 24/7 spectacle of the Strip, the Las Vegas Crime Lab's team of investigators is gearing up for a rough night ahead. A brutal shooting at a cheap motel may be business as usual for CSIs Catherine Willows and Nick Stokes, but as they process the crime scene and quickly identify the victim as a noted local private investigator, nothing could prepare them for the shock of finding physical evidence belonging to none other than their own respected colleague Detective Jim Brass. Meanwhile, CSIs Greg Sanders and Riley Adams are called to a nearby airport where they must face the ultimate locked room mystery: how a pilot flying solo in a small private plane wound up murdered while miles above the ground…

Download or read book CSI New York Four Walls written by Keith R. A. DeCandido and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-04-29 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Detectives Mac Taylor, Danny Messer, Sheldon Hawkes, and Don Flack are called in to investigate a double homicide at a medium-security facility on Staten Island. Racial tensions turned the prison into a pressure cooker that finally boiled over in an all-too-lethal fashion, leaving two inmates dead. One of the killings is an open-and-shut case, complete with eyewitnesses; but the other, the murder of a former cop, defies easy answers. Initial investigation of the crime scene points to one cause of death, but the CSI team's scientific methods uncover something completely different -- and wholly unexpected.... On the other edge of the city, Stella Bonasera and Lindsay Monroe look into the murder of a young woman who worked at a popular Italian bakery in the Bronx. They find the perfect suspect almost immediately: a frequent customer who spent a lot of time flirting with the victim and who previously had been arrested for a violent crime. Yet Stella can't help but think that their perfect suspect is just a little too perfect for such a messy murder.... Nothing is as it seems as New York City's dedicated crime scene investigators piece together the clues and examine the evidence to discover the true killers in their midst.

Download or read book CSI Crime Scene Investigation The Burning Season written by Jeff Mariotte and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-06-28 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It’s a hot, early autumn evening in the small resort town of Mount Charleston, NV, where six firefighters are battling a massive blaze that threatens expensive homes . . . a blaze that will cost them their lives. Initially, the police determine that the fire was human-started, and the state wants to prosecute to the fullest extent of the law with six counts of homicide. Now the team of Sin City’s finest criminologists, led by Catherine Willows, are assigned to work a crime scene far from the glittering lights and 24/7 spectacle of the Las Vegas Strip, and soon find much more than they bargained for. . . . Meanwhile, Ray Langston and Nick Stokes are called to a crime scene where a dog has taken a key piece of evidence—a severed human hand—under a suburban home’s crawl space. What’s even more disturbing is that it’s not the first severed hand that’s turned up lately—there have been four other incidents around Las Vegas over the past twelve months. . . .

Download or read book When We Do Harm written by Danielle Ofri, MD and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2020-04-01 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medical mistakes are more pervasive than we think. How can we improve outcomes? An acclaimed MD’s compassionate stories and research explore patient safety. “An essential read for anyone involved or interested in the care of patients.” —Booklist Patients enter the medical system with faith that they will receive the best care possible, so when things go wrong, it’s a profound and painful breach. Medical science has made enormous strides in decreasing mortality and suffering, but there’s no doubt that treatment can also cause harm, a significant portion of which is preventable. In When We Do Harm, practicing physician and acclaimed author Danielle Ofri places the issues of medical error and patient safety front and center in our national healthcare conversation. Drawing on current research, professional experience, and extensive interviews with nurses, physicians, administrators, researchers, patients, and families, Dr. Ofri explores the diagnostic, systemic, and cognitive causes of medical error. She advocates for strategic use of concrete safety interventions such as checklists and improvements to the electronic medical record, but focuses on the full-scale cultural and cognitive shifts required to make a meaningful dent in medical error. Woven throughout the book are the powerfully human stories that Dr. Ofri is renowned for. The errors she dissects range from the hardly noticeable missteps to the harrowing medical cataclysms. While our healthcare system is—and always will be—imperfect, Dr. Ofri argues that it is possible to minimize preventable harms, and that this should be the galvanizing issue of current medical discourse.