Cross-media recommendations across film, TV, games, books & music — picked by taste.
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation put forensic science at the centre of detective work — the Las Vegas lab where physical evidence, not intuition, closes cases across fifteen years of storytelling. The show signals a taste for procedural rigour: mysteries that demand methodical observation, the satisfaction of irrefutable proof, and investigators who read crime scenes the way others read faces. That appetite maps naturally onto tightly plotted thrillers, documentary realism, and games that hand you the magnifying glass yourself.
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, also referred to as CSI and CSI: Las Vegas, is an American procedural drama television series that aired on CBS from October 6, 2000, to September 27, 2015, spanning 15 seasons. It is the first series in the CSI franchise. The series originally starred William Petersen, Marg Helgenberger, Gary Dourdan, George Eads, Jorja Fox, and Paul Guilfoyle. Other cast members included Eric Szmanda, Robert David Hall, David Berman, Louise Lombard, Wallace Langham, Lauren Lee Smith, Ted Danson, Laurence Fishburne, and Elisabeth Shue. The series concluded with a feature-length finale, Immortality.
From the Wikipedia article CSI:_Crime_Scene_Investigation, available under CC BY-SA.
Film
Mindhunters
FBI trainees must apply psychological profiling in real-time when a killer emerges from within their own group.
Film
Twin Peaks
An unconventional FBI agent pursues a murder case inside a deeply strange small town with its own warped logic.
Film
The Crimson Rivers
Two detectives on separate investigations find their cases converging through shared forensic clues.
Film
AIBOU: CSI Files
An investigator combing marathon footage for a terror plot stumbles onto a deeply personal mystery involving a dead woman.
Film
High Heel Homicide
Undercover detectives race to stop a serial killer whose victims are all former cops marked with cryptic symbols.
Film
Zodiac
Editors at a San Francisco newspaper become consumed by an unsolved murder case that stretches across an entire decade.
Game
CSI: Hard Evidence
Players step into the Las Vegas lab alongside the original cast, solving cases with forensic tools and reconstructed crime scenes.
Game
Scene Investigators
A trainee investigator works through reconstructed crime cases, earning their licence by reading scenes and evidence carefully.
Game
CSI: Fatal Conspiracy
The CSI game series continues with a new connected mystery for players to investigate alongside familiar forensic procedures.
Game
Crime Scene Cleaner
You inherit the crime scene after investigators leave — a darkly comic flip-side to the forensic procedural.
Book
The Real World of a Forensic Scientist
A forensic scientist corrects the misconceptions spread by TV crime dramas and explains what the real discipline actually involves.
Book
CSI
Gil Grissom and his Las Vegas team are summoned to investigate a body discovered by a room-service waiter.
Book
Stripped
A Las Vegas detective finds that two seemingly unconnected cases — a hit-and-run and a celebrity murder — share a dark thread.
Book
Criminal minds
FBI profilers join Chicago detectives to find the hidden pattern connecting a series of apparently unrelated violent crimes.
Book
Crime scene photography
A technical guide to capturing crime scene evidence through photography — the practical craft behind forensic investigation.
Book
Teasing secrets from the dead : my investigations at America's most infamous crime scenes
A forensic anthropologist recounts working high-profile disaster and crime scenes, reconstructing what happened from physical remains.
Series
CSI: Vegas
The Las Vegas forensic lab itself is under threat, forcing investigators to revive old alliances and new methods.
Series
CSI: NY
NYPD forensic scientists apply the same evidence-first investigative approach in a different city.
Series
CSI: Miami
Miami crime scene investigators use physical evidence and deduction to untangle grisly murders, just like their Las Vegas counterparts.
Series
Crime Scene
Celebrity players must both prove their own innocence and solve a murder using the logic of a whodunit game.
Series
Forensic Files
Real crimes solved through laboratory analysis and scientific evidence — the documentary reality behind the procedural drama.
Series
Свои
A diverse expert team — including a forensic scientist — pool distinct skills to crack complex criminal cases.
The franchise continues with CSI: Miami and CSI: NY, but if you want something grittier and real, Forensic Files documents actual cases solved through the same kind of meticulous physical evidence work.
CSI: Hard Evidence lets you join Grissom's team directly and process crime scenes with realistic lab tools, while Scene Investigators puts you in the role of a trainee investigator working reconstructed cases.
The Real World of a Forensic Scientist addresses exactly what the show dramatises — and corrects many of its myths — while Stripped, a Las Vegas detective thriller, shares the show's setting and procedural mood.