“Richard Castle” returns with his latest entry in the Nikki Heat saga.  With Hurricane Sandy bearing down on New York, Nikki Heat has the billionaire candidate for Senate, who also is the commissioner in charge of storm preparedness for the Port Authority, in her sights as the culprit behind the murder of 2 illegal Haitians.

This latest installment both brings the characters in the novels more in step with their counterparts on the Castle television program, while also moving them further apart.  Nikki Heat and Jameson Rook get engaged, just as Beckett and Castle did.  On the opposite side of things, Heat gets promoted to Captain, which, as of yet, has not happened on the show.  These subtle differences do keep things interesting.