Best Selling Books by Lee Goldberg

"Lee Goldberg''s Jack Webb''s Star is a riotous caper crime with a nasty twist..." --The Los Angeles Times This collection gathers together three acclaimed short stories ---"Jack Webb''s Star," "Remaindered," and "Bumsickle" -- by Edgar-nominated writer Lee Goldberg, author of the bestselling MONK and DIAGNOSIS MURDER series of original mystery novels. "Top billing should go to Michael Connelly''s Harry Bosch story, Suicide Run and to Lee Goldberg''s Jack Webb''s Star--the former for the detection and the latter for biggest laughs" --Publisher''s Weekly "Jack Webb''s Star" originally appeared in the anthology "Hollywood and Crime." "Bumsickle" originally appeared in the anthology Fedora III. "Remaindered" originally appeared in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine and was a Reader''s Choice Award finalist.

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.

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.

Based on the television series. Appointed to the LAPD''s unsolved homicide task force, Dr. Mark Sloan reopens the case of a woman whose killer sits on Death Row. Sloan soon learns the man couldn''t possibly have murdered this woman. Original.

Determined to show his agoraphobic brother, Ambrose, the outside world, Adrian Monk drugs him with sleeping pills and hits the road in a motor home only to become enmeshed in a murder investigation along the highway.

Monk''s been swindled out of his savings but now it''s payback time, in the latest original mystery featuring everyone''s favorite OCD detective. In the midst of a financial crisis, the SFPD fires Adrian Monk as a consultant. Monk figures he can live off his savings for a while. Then Natalie learns that Monk invested his money some time ago with Bob Sebes, the charismatic leader of Reinier Investments, who''s just been arrested on charges of orchestrating a massive $100 million fraud. All of Sebes'' clients including Monk are completely wiped out financially. When the key witness in the government''s case against Sebes is killed, Monk is convinced that Sebes did it, but the man has been under house arrest with a horde of paparazzi in front of his building 24/7. Monk may be broke, but he''s got plenty of time on his hands to solve this latest mystery.

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.

On a Hawaiian vacation, Dr. Mark Sloan and his son, Steve, are soon in the middle of a murder investigation when a man they''ve befriended is killed in a shark attack. Original.

“The best bathroom reading ever!” —San Francisco Chronicle “The shows that got away—luckily.” —Hollywood Reporter “Packed with amusing failures.” —Chicago Sun-Times “Irresistible and enthralling.” —Hartford Courant “Full of fool’s gold and genuine TV treasures.” —The New York Post Finally in paperback! This two-volume set will tell you everything you could possibly want to know about the thousands of TV series ideas rejected by the networks since 1955—who made them, who starred in them, what they were about, and why they ultimately failed.

BOOK #5 in thrilling DEAD MAN saga, the action/horror series that readers and book critics alike are hailing as "an epic tale" that compares to the best of Stephen King and Dean Koontz...Matt Cahill finds himself trapped atop a blood-red mesa in the desolate American Southwest when an archeological dig goes terribly, dangerously wrong, awakening an ancient evil with an insatiable hunger. Now Matt, armed only with his trusty ax, must somehow escape...rescue a handful of terrified innocents... and prevent a slaughter of epic proportions.

An earthquake devastates Los Angeles. One man sets across the landscape of destruction to his home in the San Fernando Valley. It''s a journey that will test the limits of his endurance and his humanity, a trek from the man he was to the man he can be ... if he can survive The Walk.

Unsold Television Pilots is a detailed compilation of all the unsold television series concepts that, from 1955 through 1988, reached the development stage at the networks--but didn''t sell. Pilots are listed by year and title and include production credits, plot synopsis and when applicable, air dates. The Introduction explains what a pilot is, and how the television marketplace works now and has worked in the past. An exhaustive index (actors, writers, directors, producers and pilots) and separate lists of pilots that are based on movies, pilots that are continuations of cancelled series, and pilots that are spin-offs of characters from other series are also included.

Captain Leland Stottlemeyer relies on Adrian Monk to solve his most baffling cases, but when the captain is faced with budget cuts, Monk?s fees are one of the expenses he trims. Monk is too compulsive to stop investigating; he resorts to calling in tips under assumed names, infuriating the captain. But when Stottlemeyer is arrested for murder, he turns to the only detective who can prove his innocence. That is, if Monk can overcome some potentially crippling obstacles along the way?

Now that her ne''er-do-well husband has been arrested for murder, Monk''s former assistant, Sharona, is ready to reclaim her place in Monk''s extremely well-ordered life. But his current assistant, Natalie, is not pleased with this turn of events. While Monk tries to maintain a delicate balance between the two women, he discovers a few snags in the case against Sharona''s husband. And with other murders to investigate, Monk realizes he may be up against a killer who not only understands him, but is one step ahead.--From publisher description.

Monk''s house is being fumigated, and he has nowhere to go. Fortunagely, his assistant, Natalie and her daughter let him stay with them, but their home is not up to Monk''s standards of cleanliness. While he attempts to put things in order, the death of a dog at the firehouse on the same night as a fatal house fire has lead Monk into a puzzling mystery.