Nicole B. (noisechick) reviewed on 1/20/2012 + 95 more book reviews

For fans of the show, it's all there - down to Grissom's snarky one-liners. It's done circa 2002, so Greg is still in the lab.
The dialog is a little annoying, they say "Leuco-Crystal Violet" instead of LCV or 'blood spray' (which is what it does, detect blood) half a dozen times. Yet that's about the only piece of work-related jargon they use - so it's distracting and superfluous.
But the story holds together: A modern day Jack the Ripper is recreating their namesake's murders as painfully accurately (same types of locations, same type of dismemberment) as possible. WHILE a Jack the Ripper convention is going on in town!
Still, in true CSI fashion, there is little gore, it's about the SCIENCE.
(Which, was kinda annoying for a horror fan like me.)
I also wish they'd used more of Ashley Wood's art - it's more, grown up, disturbing and spooky. (That was why I picked it up. )But sadly, it's only used for the 'lets go to the technical re-enactment' that they usually use computer FX for on the show. That and a little of the old-tyme Jack the Ripper woodcuts. Oh and the chapter pages.
Gabriel Rodriguez (who can do good stuff - if you've seen Locke & Key) is kinda restrained by doing real-life actors. They come off as kinda matte.

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