Castle

Castle is a comedy-drama TV series developed by ABC follows the exploits of a quirky famous mystery novelist Richard Castle (Nathan Fillion), who gains his story inspirations by real world criminals. When a fan liked one of his books a little too much by becoming a copycat murderer, using all the gritty details from his stories, Rick joins forces with New York detective Kate Beckett (Stana Katic) to help solve a case. Relatively bored with his life and because he could, Rick uses his fame to become an on-call partner to Beckett and two other detectives, the sardonic Javier Esposito (Jon Huertas) and humorous Kevin Ryan (Seamus Dever). Much to Beckett's aggravation, Castle proves to be rather insightful in solving the strange and unusual cases that come across her desk. On the other hand, Castle enjoys the experiences so much that he uses Beckett's no-nonsense and aggressive alpha female personality as inspiration for his next book series. Quick-witted and stylish, Castle offers an interesting way to look at death and murder with an engaging lead duo and the side amusements of Castle's Broadway diva of a mother (Susan Sullivan) and his precocious teenage daughter (Molly Quinn). The series inspired ABC to release a Richard Castle original, Heat Wave, which from cover to cover was written completely in character, that ultimately broke into the New York Times Best Seller List at #6. MORE