This was my first CSI: MIAMI serialized novel, and I thoroughly enjoyed it! I have to say that Max Allan Collins, the author who writes the majority of all CSI titles, seems to have a better understanding of Horatio Caine than of Gil Grissom. The character descriptions were much better than some of those I've read in the regular CSI novels.

FLORIDA GETAWAY has a case that starts in Las Vegas with the regular CSI team and then spreads to Miami and Horatio's team. It's a well-developed case and a pretty darn good plot. Definitely recommended for CSI and CSI: MIAMI fans! ( )

I really like Collins' books for how well he captures the feel and characters of CSI and manages to push them a bit further, doing things in the books that can't easily happen on the tv show. In this case he features some of the original CSI characters as they are forced to allow a man they know to be a murderer to leave Las Vegas and travel to Miami. The Miami crew are asked to help out and unsurprisingly crime and mayhem follow. My main issue with the book is not that it diverts from the ethos of the tv show, but that it suffers from exactly what I feel the tv show suffers from - too much bloody Horatio Caine. The whole book is centered on him, with the other characters getting barely a couple of scenes each. As with the show, the story is solid, well structured and interesting, but I found most of the time I was just desperate to strangle the supercilious Horatio. ( )