{"id":44495,"date":"2013-05-29T19:13:20","date_gmt":"2013-05-30T02:13:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/?p=44495"},"modified":"2013-05-29T19:13:20","modified_gmt":"2013-05-30T02:13:20","slug":"zuiker-launches-whodunnit-tv-book-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/2013\/05\/zuiker-launches-whodunnit-tv-book-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Zuiker Launches &#8216;Whodunnit?&#8217; TV &#038; Book Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><I>CSI<\/i> creator <b>Anthony Zuiker<\/b> has a new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefutoncritic.com\/news\/2013\/05\/08\/abcs-new-murder-mystery-competition-whodunnit-premieres-sunday-june-23-604110\/20130508abc03\/\">reality series<\/a> airing on ABC starting Sunday, June 23 at 9:00pm ET\/PT. <i>Whodunnit?<\/i> is a nine episode murder mystery competition featuring 13 contestants who put their investigative skills to the test to solve puzzling murders&#8212;and to discover which one of the players is actually the killer. One week before the premiere, Hyperion will <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefutoncritic.com\/news\/2013\/05\/28\/csi-creator-anthony-e-zuiker-abc-and-hyperion-books-to-launch-integrated-storytelling-experience-for-new-whodunnit-tv-series-939115\/20130528abc03\/\">publish<\/a> the first in a series of <i>Whodunnit?<\/i> mystery books by Zuiker. <i>Whodunnit?: Murder in Mystery Manor<\/i> will be digitally released on June 18; the title introduces Butler Giles, who is central to the reality series, and provides information about the TV show&#8217;s backstory. A second original <i>Whodunnit?<\/i> mystery will be published in August to coincide with the competition&#8217;s season finale.<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;Ever since I was a kid, I had a passion for mysteries and crime solving, so I jumped at the opportunity with <i>Whodunnit?<\/i> to create a cross-platform storytelling experience where the book tees up the show and the show then tees up the book,&#8221; Zuiker said in a press release. &#8220;The best part for fans is that, once you&#8217;ve finished the first season of the show, you&#8217;ll be able to transition back into not just the second book but a whole series.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CSI creator Anthony Zuiker has a new reality series airing on ABC starting Sunday, June&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2906],"tags":[2913],"class_list":["post-44495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-csi-lv","tag-zuiker"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","newsphere-slider-full":"","newsphere-featured":"","newsphere-medium":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"Rachel","author_link":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/author\/rachel\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/categories\/csi-lv\/\" rel=\"category tag\">CSI<\/a>","tag_info":"CSI","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44495"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44510,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44495\/revisions\/44510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}