Murder By Design with Lee Goldberg

About this episode

James Lott Jr interviews bestselling author Lee Goldberg about his new murder mystery novel '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. Lee Goldberg is a two-time Edgar Award and two-time Shamus Award finalist and the #1 New York Times bestselling author of more than sixty novels, including the Eve Ronin series…

People in this episode

Host: James Lott Jr

Guest: Lee Goldberg

Topics covered

• murder mystery
• crime investigation
• whodunit
• literature
• author interview

Keywords

• murder
• design
• investigator
• Lee Goldberg
• whodunit
• crime
• novel

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: New York Times, Hallmark, Diagnosis Murder, SeaQuest, Monk

Books & works: Murder By Design

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