Based on the hit CBS series "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, " this original novel follows the forensic investigator team of Las Vegas' Criminalistics Bureau--led by Gil Grissom--as they investigate the deaths of two women: one a seemingly devoted Christian wife, and the other a professional stripper looking to get out of the sex trade and into junior college.______________________________Meet the little know and even less understood heroes of police work in Las Vegas - the forensic investigators, as they work to untangle the evidence behind the yellow police tape. LAS VEGAS, NV--Lynn Peirce, devoted wife and mother, has disappeared without a trace--but her best friends have an audio tape of her husband threatening to cut her up into little pieces. Stripper Jenna Patrick, on the other hand, has just been found--strangled to death in a private room of the club where she worked. Crime Scene Investigation director Gil Grissom and his CSI team must uncover the evidence and unravel the truths behind both shocking murders.