Lee Goldberg
Author Interview - Lee Goldberg
Author of Bone Canyon and Dream Town and Murder by Design
About Murder by Design
In a world carefully constructed for murder, solving crimes takes a keen mind and eye in a witty, clever, and fresh reinvention of the whodunit by #1 New York Times bestselling author Lee Goldberg.
Edison Bixby is wealthy, handsome, and, due to a traumatic brain injury, impulsively rude. He’s also a brilliant insurance investigator who solves baffling crimes by figuring out how the design of the man-made world around us makes them possible. Enter Wally Nash: a struggling actor hired to keep Bixby from offending everyone he meets.
Their first case together looks like a simple accident. Caroline Crowley took a nasty fall down a staircase at a shopping mall in front of dozens of witnesses. Video clearly shows the deadly misstep. But Bixby is certain she was murdered by design, subtly manipulated into causing her own demise. The mall itself made the crime intentional, if not inevitable.
Now Bixby must prove his outrageous theory before a very cunning killer gets others on his hit list to murder themselves, too.
About Dream Town
A gated dream town for the megarich becomes a murderous nightmare in a riveting Eve Ronin thriller by #1 New York Times bestselling author Lee Goldberg.
Hidden Hills is a private celebrity enclave of white picket fences and horse trails that seems to exist in a dreamworld. But when reality superstar Kitty Winslow is killed within their gates and corpses are found in the vast state park outside them, LASD detective Eve Ronin realizes there is a deadly, razor-thin line between what’s real and what’s imagined.
Eve discovers that Kitty’s surreal on- and off-camera life, a blur of fact and fantasy, shockingly mirrors her own as she struggles to investigate the killings, wade into a music industry war, and battle a vicious Chilean gang―all while her life is being turned into a fictional cop show directed by her estranged father.
Eve’s grip on reality and the case is strained to the breaking point as the slayings continue, the media frenzy reaches a fever pitch, and the only inescapable truth she can see is death…and it’s coming for her.
Author Interview - Lee Goldberg
About Bone Canyon
“A catastrophic wildfire scorches the Santa Monica Mountains, exposing the charred remains of a woman who disappeared years ago. The investigation is assigned to Eve Ronin, the youngest homicide detective in the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, a position that forces her to prove herself again and again. This time, though, she has much more to prove.”
Author Interview - Lee Goldberg
Author I draw inspiration from:
Larry McMurtry
Author Interview - Lee Goldberg
Favorite place to read a book:
On the beach in Hawaii
Book character I’d like to be stuck in an elevator with:
Gus MacRae - Lonesome Dove, Larry McMurtry
Author Interview - Lee Goldberg
The moment I knew I wanted to become an author:
I think I always knew I wanted to be an author...but the moment when I knew that I could actually **do it** was when I read FLETCH, by Gregory MacDonald. It was a clever crime novel that was almost entirely driven by dialogue...it was how he revealed character and plot. It was an epiphany. I didn't have the skill then, of course, to pull it off... but somehow I knew it was within my reach.
Hardback, paperback, ebook or audiobook:
Hardcover
The last book I read:
2026: REVENGE PREY by John Sandford
2020: Plain Bad Heroines by Emily M. Danforth
Author Interview - Lee Goldberg
Pen & paper or computer:
Computer
Book character I think I’d be best friends with:
James Bond, because we are so much alike. And if you don't already know who wrote Bond, you should join our culture, it's fun.
Author Interview - Lee Goldberg
If I weren’t an author, I’d be a:
director
Favorite decade in fashion history:
Place I’d most like to travel:
Caribbean Islands...only because I love tropical locales and I haven't been there yet. I'd also like to visit more of Asia (Japan, Singapore, Vietnam...). Of course, that's assuming it's ever safe to travel again :-)
My signature drink:
Diet Coke
Favorite artist:
In what field? Actually, the answer doesn't matter. I don't have a single favorite artist in any field.
Number one on my bucket list:
I don't have a bucket list. I am too optimistic about life to think I need one.
Anything else you'd like to add:
I'm red/green colorblind, so if you see me wearing a pink shirt, odds are I thought it was white or blue when I bought it, so don't embarrass me by pointing it out. My wife will do that later.
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www.leegoldberg.com
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About Lee Goldberg:
Lee Goldberg is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of more than seventy novels, including the Eve Ronin series, the Ian Ludlow series, the Sharpe & Walker series, and five books (and two novellas) in the Fox and O’Hare series, which he co-authored with Janet Evanovich. He also co-created the Hallmark movie series Mystery 101 and has written and/or produced many TV shows, including You’re Killing Me, Diagnosis Murder, SeaQuest, and Monk. As an international television consultant, he has advised networks and studios in Canada, France, Germany, Spain, China, Sweden, and the Netherlands on the creation, writing, and production of episodic series. He lives with his family in Southern California.
