CSI: Crime Scene Investigation: Bad Rap #4

by Max Allan Collins, Gabriel Rodríguez (Illustrator), Matthew V. Clemens

Book 4 (of 5): A duel between retro-punk rappers from the white-hot music scene in Las Vegas ends with one of them murdered. The problem for Gil Grissom and his team of crime scene investigators isn't a lack of suspects, it's too many--each with his or her own reason to want Busta Kapp dead. But when the suspects start becoming murder victims themselves, Grissom knows he's got to solve this case in a hurry ... before the victim list goes off the charts!

Comic

Published January 1, 2003

About the author

Received the Shamus Award, "The Eye" (Lifetime achievment award) in 2006.

He has also published under the name Patrick Culhane. He and his wife, Barbara Collins, have written several books together. Some of them are published under the name Barbara Allan.

Book Awards
Shamus Awards Best Novel winner (1984) : True Detective
Shamus Awards Best Novel winner (1992) : Stolen Away
Shamus Awards Best Novel nominee (1995) : Carnal Hours
Shamus Awards Best Novel nominee (1997) : Damned in Paradise
Shamus Awards Best Novel nominee (1999) : Flying Blind: A Novel about Amelia Earhart
Shamus Awards Best Novel nominee (2002) : Angel in Black

Japanese: マックス・アラン・コリンズ
or マックス・アラン コリンズ

Reviews

[Octavia Cade · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is the best of this comic mini-series so far... and there's another dead suspect. If I were a more cynical reader, I'd begin to wonder if there wasn't a serial killer in the Crime Lab! Grissom's smart enough to do it if he wanted to, though of course he wouldn't. One can't deny, however, that all the dead people thus far have been pretty terrible and the world's probably better off without them. Doesn't mean I'm not curious as to who's doing it.