These Richard Castle books read very much like an episode of Castle (fun!). Lots of pop culture references will date these books, (but lets be honest, once the show is over, no one will read them anyways).

Summary: NYPD Homicide Detective Nikki Heat arrives at her latest crime scene to find an unidentified woman stabbed to death and stuffed inside a suitcase left on a Manhattan street. Nikki is in for a big shock when this new homicide connects to the unsolved murder of her own mother.