New Releases by Lee Goldberg

#1 New York Times Bestselling Author Major Crimes Unit detective Tom Wade secretly worked with the Feds to nail seven of his fellow cops for corruption...turning him into a pariah in the police department. So he''s exiled to patrol a beat in King City''s deadliest neighborhood...with no back-up, no resources, and no hope of survival. Now Wade fights to tame the lawless, poverty-stricken wasteland...while investigating a string of brutal murders of young women. It''s a case that takes him from the squalor of the inner-city to the manicured enclaves of the privileged, revealing the sordid and deadly ways the two worlds are intertwined...making his enemies even more determined to crush him. But for Tom Wade, backing down is never an option...even if it will cost him his life. It''s one reason why bestselling author Janet Evanovich calls Wade "an unforgettable and deeply compelling character in the most original crime novel to come along in years."

#1 New York Times Bestselling Author Los Angeles cop John "Tidal Wave" McGrave is an unstoppable force of nature who always gets his man...even if it means laying waste to everything around him, including his own career...which is exactly what happens in his pursuit of Sebastian Richter, the ruthless leader of an international gang of violent thieves. When Richter flees to Berlin, McGrave chases after him...even though the cop doesn''t know the language, the laws, or the culture. But McGrave doesn''t care...he speaks the universal language of knee in the groin and fist in the face...and he won''t let anything get in his way. Hold on tight for a wild, rollicking, action-adventure novella that captures all of the fun, excitement and pure escapist pleasure of the "Dirty Harry," "Lethal Weapon" and "Die Hard" movies...with the humor, sharp dialogue and inventiveness that you''ve come to expect from Lee Goldberg, #1 New York Times bestselling author of "The Walk," "Watch Me Die," "The Dead Man," fifteen hilarious Adrian Monk mysteries and the five globally bestselling Fox & O''Hare novels co-written with Janet Evanovich. "McGrave" is guaranteed to leave you breathless...and with a big smile on your face. CRITICAL ACCLAIM FOR McGRAVE: "Sitting down to read McGrave is like getting hit in the face with a double-fistload of two-by-four. For those of you who thrill to the throaty roar of a V-8 engine and long for the days when policework came from Bruce Willis University, Lee Goldberg has got a read for you. Strap in and hold tight," Mel Odom, author of the Left Behind Apocalypse series "Lee Goldberg has answered one of my prayers. A new lawman-in-new-territory series. McGrave is everything I''ve been waiting for. The L.A. detective ends up across the pond, bringing American bravado to the streets of Berlin. This a first-rate, one-night read. For me it''s a five-star implementation of a five-star idea," Mugshots Blog "Goldberg pulls off a very neat trick, producing a yarn that''s part serious, part satire, and all action. It seems like I had a grin on my face the whole time I was reading it. I loved it," James Reasoner, author of Texas Wind "This book is the literary equivalent of buffalo wings and boilermakers. " Post Modern Pulps "It''s terrific. Non-stop action and a lot of laughs. Reading it was like watching a great action movie." Bill Crider, author of Outrage at Blanco.

Matthew Cahill is a simple man leading a quiet life...until he is tragically killed in an avalanche at a ski resort. Three months later his corpse is found and sent to the morgue.... But then something inexplicable happens. He wakes up. Now he can see evil...as a festering rot that eats people alive from the inside out. And he can see Mr. Dark, the horrific figure who gleefully spreads it like a plague...and who is the only one who can tell Matt whether he is still a man...or the walking dead. For Matt, each day is a journey into a supernatural world he knows nothing about...a quest for the answers to who he is and what he has become...and a bloody fight to save us, and his soul, from the clutches of pure evil. Here are the first three unforgettable novels in Lee Goldberg & William Rabkin''s The Dead Man saga--"Face of Evil," "Ring of Knives," and "Hell in Heaven"--a horrifying new series that Post-Modern Pulps hails as "a direct spiritual descendant of the sorts of awesome pulp action adventure tales that the greats like Robert E. Howard loved to write "

Welcome to the series of original mysteries starring Adrian Monk, the brilliant investigator who always knows when something’s out of place.... Randy Disher is perfectly happy living with Monk''s old assistant Sharona and working as the new police chief of Summit, New Jersey. But when the city’s leadership is arrested for fraud, he suddenly finds himself appointed acting mayor and overwhelmed by the dual responsibilities—especially when the town is hit by a wave of robberies. In desperation, Disher calls on Adrian Monk to put things in order. As deputized officers, Monk and his assistant Natalie are ready to make Summit the cleanest city on earth—until the burglaries escalate to arson and murder. Now it’s time to get down and dirty, before someone puts Officer Monk out of commission for good.

"A shocking accident gave Matthew Cahill the ability to see a nightmarish netherworld that nobody else does, pitting him in a fight to save us all -- and his own soul -- from the clutches of pure evil in these three exhilarating tales of dark humor, nonstop action, and pure horror." --p. 4 of cover.

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.

When Beverly Hills Police Officer Charlie Willis pulls over a speeding Rolls Royce hell-bent for Neiman Marcus, he''s surprised to see Esther Radcliffe, the geriatric star of the TV series "Miss Agatha," behind the wheel. He''s even more surprised when she guns him down and keeps on driving. A few hours later, he wakes up in the intensive care unit...to find a William Morris agent, a network president, and the head of Pinnacle Studios standing at the foot of his bed. They have a proposal for him: in exchange for conveniently forgetting who shot him, they''ll make him the star of his own series, "My Gun Has Bullets." So Charlie trades in his real badge for a fake one...and so begins an uproarious but deadly romp through the wonderful world of TV make-believe...with real bullets.

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.

California and Adrian Monk are in a financial crisis when he''s fired by the SFPD and finds his savings are gone. Bob Sebes, the leader of Reinier Investments, swindled his clients, including Monk. Whena key witness is killed, Monk is convince that Sebes, under house-arrest, did it. Being jobless and broke, Monk can devote all of his obsessive energy to solving this latest mystery.

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.

From Lee Goldberg, the #1 New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Publishers Weekly bestselling author of True Fiction, The Walk, and Lost Hills, comes **all four** of his acclaimed JURY SERIES novels...collected into one mega-sized, pulse-pounding, thrill-ride that will leave you breathless! JUDGMENT * ADJOURNED * PAYBACK * GUILTY The complete saga of Brett Macklin, a one-man judge, jury, and executioner, fighting a war on terror on the streets of Los Angeles in the mid-1980s. Over 160,000 words/550 pages of non-stop action, wildly erotic sex, and wicked humor in a new edition for 2020.. "As stunning as the report of a .357 Magnum, a dynamic premiere effort [...] The Best New Paperback Series of the year!" West Coast Review of Books The series, published in 1985, under the title 357 Vigilante was written by "Ian Ludlow"... a pseudonym for Lee Goldberg, who wrote the books while he was a UCLA student, under the supervision of his professor, novelist Lewis Perdue (The DaVinci Legacy, The Queensgate Reckoning, Daughter of God etc). Goldberg would later go on to write and/or produce such TV shows as Monk, Diagnosis Murder, SeaQuest, and The Glade co-create the hit Hallmark Mystery movie series Mystery 101 and write many more novels, including fifteen best-selling "Monk" mysteries, five internationally bestselling "Fox & O''Hare" novels co-authored with Janet Evanovich, and in a nod to THE JURY SERIES, the "Ian Ludlow Thriller" trilogy: True Fiction, Killer Thriller, and Fake Truth.

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!

At a convention for the cult science fiction show Beyond Earth, Adrian Monk meets fans as obsessive-compulsive as he is. Though he’s not preoccupied with the program, Monk can understand the phenomenon. Who wouldn’t want to live in an imaginary world? But there may be a killer in the Beyond Earth community: Someone in a starship uniform has gunned down the show’s legendary creator. Could a fan be that furious at him for selling out to Hollywood? Or is more going on behind the scenes? Luckily, Monk’s agoraphobic brother, Ambrose, is an expert on the TV series, and together they’ll search the earth and beyond for the murderer. That is, if Ambrose can bring himself to leave the house. A new story starring Adrian Monk by Edgar® Award-nominated screenwriter Lee Goldberg. It’s compulsive, page-turning fun. “Even if you aren’t familiar with the TV series Monk, this book is too funny to not be read.”—The Weekly Journal

The industry speaks out about SUCCESSFUL TELEVISION WRITING "Where was this book when I was starting out? A fantastic, fun, informative guide to breaking into?and more importantly, staying in?the TV writing game from the guys who taught me how to play it." --Terence Winter, Coexecutive Producer, The Sopranos "Goldberg and Rabkin write not only with clarity and wit but also with the authority gleaned from their years of slogging through Hollywood?s trenches. Here is a must-read for new writers and established practitioners whose imagination could use a booster shot." --Professor Richard Walter, Screenwriting Chairman, UCLA Department of Film and TV "Not since William Goldman?s Adventures in the Screen Trade has there been a book this revealing, funny, and informative about The Industry. Reading this book is like having a good, long lunch with your two best friends in the TV business." --Janet Evanovich "With sharp wit and painful honesty, Goldberg and Rabkin offer the truest account yet of working in the TV business. Accept no substitutes!" --Jeffrey B. Hodes and Nastaran Dibai, Coexecutive Producers, Third Rock from the Sun "Should be required reading for all aspiring television writers." --Howard Gordon, Executive Producer, 24 and The X-Files

Based on the hit TV series! Monk is horrified when he learns there’s going to be a blue flu in San Francisco. He doesn’t understand what the blue flu is, but it sounds terrible. Stottlemeyer explains that it’s not really a virus. The police force plans to call in “sick” until they get a better contract. The good news is the labor dispute will give Monk a chance to get back on the force. The bad news is it means he’ll be a “scab”—and he doesn’t like the sound of that either. Before he knows it, Monk has his badge back, and his own squad to command. Unfortunately, some of the squad members make Monk look like a paragon of mental health. But despite the challenges, they’ll have to pull together to catch an astrologer’s killer, solve a series of mysterious fatal assaults, and most importantly, clean up their desks.

When Dr Mark Sloan wakes up in his own hospital''s ICU, he can''t remember how he got there. Nor can he remember the last two years of his life. He learns that he was run down in the hospital parking lot, and that it was no accident.

Harvey Mapes is a twenty-nine-year-old security guard who spends his nights in a guard shack outside a gated community in Southern California, reading detective novels, watching TVLand reruns, and waiting for his life to finally start . . . which happens when Cyril Parkus, one of the wealthy residents, asks Harvey to follow his beautiful wife Lauren. The lowly security guard jumps at the opportunity to fulfill his private eye fantasies and use everything he''s learned from Spenser, Magnum, and Mannix. But things don''t exactly go according to the books . . . or the reruns. As Harvey fumbles and stumbles through his first investigation, he discovers that the differences between fiction and reality can be deadly. With the help of his mortgage-broker neighbor and occasional lover Carol, Harvey uncovers a blackmail plot that takes a sudden and unexpectedly tragic turn . . . plunging him into a world of violence, deception, and murder . . . and forcing him to discover what it really takes to be a private eye.Lee Goldberg is a two-time Edgar Award nominee whose many TV writing and/or producing credits include "Martial Law," "Diagnosis Murder," "The Cosby Mysteries," "Hunter," "Spenser: For Hire," "Nero Wolfe," "Missing," and "Monk." He''s also the author of My Gun Has Bullets, Beyond the Beyond, Successful Television Writing, The Walk, and the Diagnosis: Murder series of paperback originals. He resides in California.

Dr. Mark Sloan saves a would-be suicide victim, but her jump from a building leaves her in a coma. Obsessed with learning why she attempted suicide, Sloan stumbles into a manhunt for a cop-killer. Original.

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.

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.

“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.

“A remarkable encyclopedia.” —TV Guide “A must-browse for media freaks.” —USA Today “Irresistible and enthralling.” —Hartford Courant “Full of fool’s gold and genuine TV treasures.” —The New York Post The three hundred best and worst TV series ideas— known in the industry as “pilots”— that never made it to primetime. From the adventures of a Samurai D.A. to the antics of an invisible alien baby, Lee Goldberg details the greatest shows you never saw.

Films include: Back to the future, Conan the destroyer, The dead zone and Videodrome (directed by David Cronenberg), Highlander, the James Bond series, The lost boys, A nightmare on Elm Street (directed by Wes Craven).

From Adam-12 to Ultraman, the series here were all ended but later returned. To be included a show must have been cancelled, with no new episodes produced, for longer than one full year. Each entry shows the original series title, the network, and the years they were broadcast. Also given are an overview of how the characters changed between first-run and revival, plot synopses, and production information on the remake.

The only reference book of its kind for college-bound Jewish students and their parents. Includes general colleges and many of the select residential universities in North America and Israel, and offers detailed information about vital factors in choosing a school. Photographs.