Plot Revealed for Heat Rises, the Third Nikki Heat Mystery by Richard Castle

The third Nikki Heat mystery by Richard Castle is scheduled to be published this September, and now the plotline has been revealed.

The bizarre murder of a parish priest at a New York bondage club is just the tip of an iceberg that leads Nikki Heat to a dark conspiracy that reaches all the way to the highest level of the NYPD. But when she gets too close to the truth, Nikki finds herself disgraced, stripped of her badge, and out on her own as a target for killers with nobody she can trust. Except maybe the one man in her life who’s not a cop. Reporter Jameson Rook. In the midst of New York’s coldest winter in a hundred years, there’s one thing Nikki is determined to prove. Heat rises.

Richard Castle is the fictional crime novelist on ABC's Castle, played by Nathan Fillion. Heat Wave and Naked Heat, the first two Nikki Heat mysteries, both of which have been integrated into episodic storylines on the show, were bestsellers.

(Source: EW's Shelf Life.)