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Books consulted include two works by Vernon J. Gerberth: Practical Homicide Investigation Checklist and Field Guide (1997) and Practical Homicide Investigation: Tactics, Procedures and Forensic Investigation (1996). Also helpful were Crime Scene: The Ultimate Guide to Forensic Science, Richard Platt; Jane’s Gun Recognition Guide, Ian Hogg; Scene of the Crime: A Writer’s Guide to Crime-Scene Investigations (1992), Anne Wingate, Ph.D; Three Month Fever, Gary Indiana; and The Visual Dictionary of Human Anatomy, text by Richard Walker. Any inaccuracies, however, are my own.
Jessica McGivney and Ed Schlesinger at Pocket Books provided support, suggestions, and guidance. The producers of CSI: Miami were gracious in providing scripts, background material (including show bibles), and episode tapes, without which this novel would have been impossible. In particular, I’d like to thank Corinne Marrinan.
Anthony E. Zuiker, Ann Donahue, and Carol Mendelsohn are gratefully acknowledged as the creators of this concept and these characters; and the cast of the show must be applauded for bringing the characters to life and making it easy to write for them in the theater of the mind. Our thanks, too, to various writers for CSI: Miami, whose inventive and well-documented scripts inspired this novel and have done much toward making CSI: Miami the rare spin-off worthy of its predecessor.
MAX ALLAN COLLINS, a Mystery Writers of America “Edgar” nominee in both fiction and nonfiction categories, has been hailed as “the Renaissance man of mystery fiction.” He has earned an unprecedented twelve Private Eye Writers of America “Shamus” nominations for his historical thrillers, winning twice for his Nathan Heller novels, True Detective (1983) and Stolen Away (1991). His other credits include film criticism, short fiction, songwriting, trading-card sets, video games, and movie/TV tie-in novels, including the New York Times–bestselling Saving Private Ryan.
His graphic novel Road to Perdition is the basis of the Academy Award–winning DreamWorks 2002 feature film starring Tom Hanks, Paul Newman, and Jude Law, directed by Sam Mendes. His many comics credits include the Dick Tracy syndicated strip (1977–1993); his own Ms. Tree; Batman; and CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, based on the hit TV series.
An independent filmmaker in his native Iowa, he wrote and directed Mommy, premiering on Lifetime in 1996, and a 1997 sequel, Mommy’s Day. The screen-writer of The Expert, a 1995 HBO World Premiere, he wrote and directed the award-winning documentary Mike Hammer’s Mickey Spillane (1999) and the innovative feature, Real Time: Siege at Lucas Street Market (2000).
Collins lives in Muscatine, Iowa, with his wife, writer Barbara Collins; their son Nathan is majoring in computer science and Japanese at the University of Iowa.
Max Allan Collins, Heat Wave
