Cross-media recommendations across film, TV, games, books & music — picked by taste.
CSI: Miami transplants forensic crime-solving to the Miami-Dade Police Department, where investigators approach cases as cops first and scientists second — using physical evidence, deduction, and gritty instincts to crack murders. Character-driven drama runs alongside the procedural mechanics, distinguishing it from more clinical entries in the franchise. If it hooked you, your taste leans toward crime stories where place and atmosphere are inseparable from the mystery — a thread that runs through noir film, rival forensic franchises, detective fiction, and investigative games.
CSI: Miami is an American police procedural television series that aired on CBS from September 23, 2002, to April 8, 2012. Featuring David Caruso as Lieutenant Horatio Caine, Emily Procter as Detective Calleigh Duquesne, and Adam Rodriguez as Detective Eric Delko, the series is the first direct spin-off of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, "transplanting the same template and trickery—gory crimes, procedural plot and dazzling graphics—into [a new city] while retaining the essence of the original idea".
From the Wikipedia article CSI:_Miami, available under CC BY-SA.
Film
Miami Exposé
A police detective uses a mob witness as bait to lure killer gamblers into the Everglades.
Film
Miami Supercops
A $20 million Detroit bank robbery goes cold — until the surviving robber walks out of prison seven years later.
Film
Miami Blues
A Miami-set crime story where an ex-convict's violent act sets a darkly comic chain of consequences in motion.
Film
Reno 911!: Miami
Misfit Reno cops are called in to save Miami after a terrorist attack disrupts a national police convention.
Film
Mindhunters
FBI profiling trainees must put their skills to use when they discover a killer hiding among them.
Film
Miami Vice
Undercover detectives Crockett and Tubbs pursue South Florida drug lords while navigating personal entanglements.
Game
CSI: Hard Evidence
Players join Grissom and the Las Vegas team to solve crimes using realistic forensic techniques and lab equipment.
Game
CSI: Fatal Conspiracy
An interactive CSI game putting players in the role of forensic investigator to crack cases.
Game
Miami Vice: The Game
Two Miami cops fight a Colombian drug cartel overrunning the city in this action-crime game.
Book
CSI
Gil Grissom and his forensic team are called in to solve a murder uncovered by a hotel room-service waiter.
Book
Heat wave
Detective Nikki Heat investigates the death of a Manhattan real estate tycoon while managing an unwelcome assignment.
Book
Criminal minds
Elite FBI profilers investigate seemingly unrelated bizarre murders in Chicago, searching for the connecting thread.
Book
The Real World of a Forensic Scientist
A non-fiction account of real forensic science corrects the misconceptions that shows like *CSI: Miami* popularized.
Series
CSI: NY
An NYPD forensic team solves crimes through physical evidence, mirroring the same procedural framework.
Series
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
The Las Vegas forensic team that inspired Miami — meticulous evidence-gathering at the franchise's origin.
Series
CSI: Vegas
The franchise's modern revival pits a forensic lab team against a threat to the institution itself.
Series
Miami Medical
A Miami trauma team of expert surgeons thrives on the adrenaline of working at a premier facility.
Series
CSI: Cyber
An FBI cyber-crime unit headed by a psychologist-agent solves cases rooted in the dark-net.
Series
Beach Heat: Miami
A Miami Beach drama shot on location in South Florida, evoking the city's coastal atmosphere.
Start with the franchise siblings — CSI: Crime Scene Investigation is the Las Vegas original, CSI: NY moves the formula to New York, and CSI: Vegas is the modern revival. For a tonal change in the same city, Miami Vice brings undercover drama to South Florida.
CSI: Hard Evidence and CSI: Fatal Conspiracy put you in the role of forensic investigator, using realistic lab techniques to crack cases — the closest interactive equivalent to the show's evidence-driven approach.
It blends forensic procedural rigour with character-driven drama and a vivid Miami setting. The show's cops-first-scientists-second approach gives cases a grounded, physical tension that distinguishes it from more lab-focused entries in the genre.