This is the first book written for the CSI: New York (NY) series as well as being the first CSI book written by Stuart M Kaminsky.
Rather disappointingly, this book could have been brilliant. Both the cases are interesting and keep you guessing as to just what is going on and how things are going to unfold. But sadly this wasn’t enough to save the novel. There were just too many little mistakes which made the novel very jarring and difficult to keep my head in.
Some of the actions of the characters aren’t exactly realistic and would, in the real world, result in evidence being made inadmissible (such as Stella entrusted a regular cab driver to return important evidence to the lab while she stayed at the scene).
Other mistakes come in the form of odd continuity. At one point the characters of Mac Taylor and Aiden Burn are talking on the phone and after disconnecting the call Mac says something else to her which she responds to.
But the thing which annoyed me most and which I found very difficult to get passed is the fact the author muddled up the character Don Flack and Danny Messer at many points in the novel. It gets rather confusing when Don is referred to as Dan and the reader is just meant to be able to work out which character the author actually means.
It’s a shame that these errors appear because without them I would have been able to concentrate a great deal more on the case and just been able to enjoy the novel.
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