Associate producer Corinne Marrinan writes her second book about CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.

Marrinan has been with CSI since the show first began. She knew William Petersen (Gil Grissom) in Chicago and he contacted her when the show was just starting out. "[H]e asked if I wanted to come out and work on the show and help out, he figured it would last for a couple of episodes and I have been working on it ever since," she told CFM News. "I am pretty much the luckiest girl in Hollywood right now."

The book that Marrinan has written, Ultimate CSI: Crime Scene Investigation is not the first she's done for CSI. She said that the first book, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Companion, was "about each episode and what happened in each episode" and featured "writers, producers [and] designers talking about the show and how the show was made." Ultimate CSI, on the other hand, is more of "a fiction within a fiction in a way." This book treats the characters as though they are "real people and these are their lives and this is the science that they practice and these are some of their cases and their case files so it is a little bit more of an extension of the fantasy and the fantasy of the show."

Marrinan said that she has learned a lot about forensics while working for CSI. "We have a lot of experts who work on the show and they really keep us honest all the time," she said. She also pointed out that "there is always more to learn in this field, though, because it is always changing and involving. It is a really exciting field and I hear that kids are enjoying the science of it." She mentioned "CSI: The Experience", the museum exhibit that is based around the hit show. She got to see that young people were interested in the exhibit and were excited to take part. "[I]t's not the murder and the gore they are excited by it," Marrinan said, "but the puzzle solving and the mystery of it."

The original interview is from CFM News. Thanks to Elyse for the heads-up on this article.

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