If you're a fan of CSI, or interested in forensics, then you'd probably enjoy the Lincoln Rhyme series by this author. The seventh book of the series just came out but the first was made into a movie, "The Bone Collector" starring Denzel Washington and Angelina Jolie. I'm not really a fan of CSI, as I know too much about real forensics to enjoy it, but these books are quite specific about analyzing physical evidence and the equipment used to do it.
Reading the newly released Cold Moon, I can't help pointing out that once the true plot is revealed it doesn't seem plausible with the timeline of the story. It's also a bit of a letdown that the antagonist isn't all that diabolical to warrant being in this series.
Okay, I spoke too soon about the plot but the death count is the lowest of the series. I suppose that's a good thing for the fictional characters but there wasn't a whole lot of suspense because of it. For the FBI to consider somebody a mass/serial/spree murderer a person must kill at least three people in a specific time period, and that did not happen here.
I just finished the most recent Lincoln Rhyme book(I think?), Broken Window, and it was pretty good IMO, with some unfortuante reality checks. It has to do with computers and identy theft and I couldn't sayy where fiction ends and reality could begin.
However, for an author whose been writing crime novels for some time now, he missed a few things that I doubt real cops would. One thing happens to be related the title of the book, the broken window theory. I won't get into it now but it's practically policing 101 and most of the main characters didn't know it! Also, there were a couple lines from the show Dragnet and again they didn't recognize them, primarily "just the facts ma'am." I can sort of understand this one but the ones who didn't know are supposed to be in their 30s, as am I, and I recognized it. Another thing, that happens all the time in TV/movie/books and realistically it wouldn't near as often, is a cop or solider dropping his/her weapon when loosing their balance. Some things are of course involuntary but people who carry firearms for a living know that if they loose control of their weapon in situations that call for it chances are they will die, many times by that very gun. There was also a spelling error on page 347 (hardback) and at least one other that I didn't write down.