Castle 1: Heat Wave - Hitzewelle

Blurb

Heat Wave is the first novel in Richard Castle's series about NYPD homicide detective Nikki Heat and journalist Jameson Rook. It was released on September 29, 2009 and has had five sequels: Naked Heat, Heat Rises, Frozen Heat, Deadly Heat and Raging Heat.
The novel was published by Hyperion Books as a deal with ABC. ABC produces the TV series Castle, where the main character, Richard Castle, to whom the book is credited to being written by, shadows NYPD Detective Kate Beckett. The real author is unknown.