Deadly Heat

Premise and background

Characters

• Detective Nikki Heat is the lead character in Richard Castle's Nikki Heat book series. Heat is loosely based on NYPD detective Kate Beckett, possessing a similar backstory, in that her decision to become a detective was motivated by the death of someone close to her - although Heat has a niece and siblings that Beckett lacks - and the first case she investigates is adapted from several real cases Castle helped Beckett solve. Heat is assisted by her partner and sometime lover, journalist Jameson Rook. In addition, her colleagues Detectives Raley and Ochoa also work with her on cases.
• Jameson Rook is a fictional character that Richard Castle created for his Nikki Heat series of crime novels. He is a famous magazine journalist who shadows the main character, Detective Nikki Heat, as well as her on-again off-again love interest. The character moonlights as a romance novelist under the pen name Victoria St. Clair. He is based on Castle himself and the way he works with Kate Beckett.
• Captain Charles Montrose was the captain of Heat's precinct and was based on Captain Montgomery. Montrose is dead.
• Detective Ochoa is based on Detective Esposito.
• Detective Raley is based on Detective Ryan.
• Lauren Parry is the medical examiner and is based on Dr. Lanie Parish.
• Margaret Rook is Jameson Rook's mother and is based on Richard Castle's own mother Martha Rodgers.
• Wallace "Wally" Irons is the captain of Heat's precinct and is based on Captain Victoria Gates.

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