Max Allan Collins, author of many CSI novels, announced last week his latest CSI project will hit the stands soon.

The novel, entitled Binding Ties, takes the reader all the way back to the beginning of Jim Brass's new career as captain of the LVPD, when a vicious serial killer known as 'CAST' terrorized Las Vegas and ultimately became responsible for nearly half a dozen murders. The killer was never caught, and now, ten years later, Grissom and his team investigate a death that mirrors CAST's signature killings perfectly. But when the famous serial killer claims he is not responsible for the new deaths, the CSIs must find CAST's copycat before the killer himself becomes a victim.

Collins also finished another CSI novel, Imperfect Crimes (no release date has been announced), and is working on a CSI: New York comic book entitled Bloody Murder, as well as two jigsaw puzzles of the series. While Collins has decided to concentrate on Vegas novels and not delve into the Big Apple, author Stuart M. Kaminsky's CSI: New York novel, Dead of Winter, will be released in September of 2005.

But his CSI projects are only few of the many that keep Collins busy. The author's new documentary, Caveman: V.T. Hamlin & Alley Oop will be shown in selective festivals soon. His new anthology, Shades of Noir, which includes short films Eliot Ness: An Untouchable Life, A Matter of Principal, and Three Women, as well as the documentary Mike Hammer's Mickey Spillane, is a commentary track short of being sent to Troma Entertainment for production. Plus, Collins's successful play, Eliot Ness: An Untouchable Life, is being shipped to Des Moines. Ness has been nominated for a Best Play Edgar award, and will star Michael Cornelison.

To learn more about Collins, including his unrelated CSI projects, visit Friends/Family/Fans Of Max Allan Collins.

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