Binding Ties
Chapter One
The North Las Vegas neighborhood was slowly making the transition from cozy to shabby. A 420 on the radio, this homicide call -- which on the Strip would be treated like a presidential assassination, every squad car rolling in with lights strobing and siren blaring -- had generated only one North Las Vegas PD squad, which sat parked out front of the house as quietly as if this was the officer's home...
...and not a crime scene.
Which was what brought LVPD Crime Scene Investigation supervisor Gil Grissom to this declining residential area, and not for the first time -- wasn't a habit yet, but calls in these environs were definitely on the upswing.
Seasoned veteran Grissom descended on this troubled neighborhood like the angel of death, albeit a casually attired one, such a study in black was he: sunglasses, Polo shirt, slacks, shoes. Gray was invading the dark curly hair, however, intruding as well into a beard he'd grown to save himself time, only to find trimming the thing was its own burden. He'd thought of shaving the damn thing off, at least twenty times, but that much of an expenditure of time he ... read full excerpt from: CSI #6: Binding Ties ebook
