CSI: Miami (TV Series) By the Book (2011) User Reviews

A women is found with two puncher holes in her neck.

[btrober123 · 10/10 · 2 November 2011]

It is Halloween in CSI and Calleigh hates it.A women is found in a haunted house upside down with two puncher holes in her neck. Horatio must find the original crime scene and find out where all of her blood is. The people working there are all suspects as no one lives in the house. Frank finds out about a book that becomes real and they have to find where the poison was from to try and kill her. The real writer of the book is being black mailed which helps the CSI's find there killer. I like this episode as it has great characters and makes a book into real life. "By the book" is there tittle as they are going by the rules of the law.

This episode of CSI MIAMI is straight out of a horror movie....

[tarwaterthomas · 9/10 · 27 February 2024]

.....and it starts off with those two lovable crime scene investigators Eric Delko (Adam Rodriguez) and Calleigh Duquesne (Emily Procter) of the Miami-Dade Police Department arriving at the island mansion of bestselling novelist Marilyn Milner (Diane Farr) in the middle of a thunderstorm-driven night, evidence cases in hand. In the living room, they find the body of a deceased young woman hanging upside down....and drained of blood! But where's the eight pints of all those corpuscles? Because there's no blood on the floor! And Horatio Caine (David Caruso) blithely announces that his team needs to find the actual murder site. One of the gallery of suspects is sketchy groundskeeper Wes Rayburn (Chad Todhunter) who claims he's a vampire and he tried biting Calleigh. Jeez, what a creep! And what happened to Marilyn Milner, who's written all those cheesy vampire novels that have hit the bestseller lists? She booked a flight to London but hasn't been seen since. In real life, she's modeled after Stephanie Meyer who's written the bestselling Twilight novels. As for the dead body hanging from the ceiling, it belongs to college graduate Andrea Edison (Aria Pullman) who had been working as a housekeeper; her identity had been determined by investigator Tom Loman (Christian Clemenson) who had found her ferry pass. In the meantime, Natalie Boa Vista (Eva LaRue) and Walter Simmons (Omar Benson Miller) check out a boat named "Best Cellar" and find a couple of ghostwriters on board--Wes Rayburn and Lawrence Kingman (Orlando Jones) whom the investigators had met before, at the mansion! Another suspect is Kenny Barnsdall (played by the late Michael Ray Escamilla) who was the last person to see the manuscript of Marilyn Milner's latest vampire novel. So who murdered Andrea Edison just like in the latest novel? Ryan and Walter find a blood-stained needle in the back seat of Marilyn's Rolls-Royce Phantom worth $400,000, and Horatio finds Marilyn Milner in beautiful down Miami. She faked her own disappearance. Turns out she hadn't written her novels, and left it to the ghostwriters to do the literary heavy lifting on her boat. Turns out, Lawrence Kingman murdered Andrea Edison and drained her blood in the wine bottles, and stashed the bottles in the wine cellar! The unrepentant Kingman declared that he was the better writer. And Andrea had been poisoned with a bottle of perfume laced with hemlock. And it was Marilyn Milner who did the dirty deed. The episode ends with our heroes getting a callout; somebody was apparently murdered by a werewolf! This was a pretty good episode, for fans of the Twilight novels. For everybody else, it's still good watching.