New Releases by Lee Goldberg

Drawn to his neighbor''s Malibu beach house by the sound of gunfire, Dr. Mark Sloan finds the bullet-riddled bodies of an aspiring actress and a Hollywood producer. An obvious suspect is the producer''s wife, but Mark thinks the crime scene resembles a mob hit more than a crime of passion. Original.

An Edgar Award-nominee AuthorIt''s one minute after the Big One. Marty Slack, a TV network executive, crawls out from under his Mercedes. Downtown LA is in ruins. The sky is thick with black smoke. His cell phone is dead. The freeways are rubble. The airport is demolished. Buildings lay across streets like fallen trees. It will be days before help can arrive. Marty has been expecting this day all his life. He''s prepared. He knows there is only one thing he can do . . . that he must do: get home to his wife Beth, go back to their gated community on the far edge of the San Fernando Valley. All he has to do is walk. But he will quickly learn that it''s not that easy. Looters rampage through the streets. His dangerous, unpredictable journey home will take him through the different worlds of what was once Los Angeles. There''s no power. No running water. No order. Marty Slack thinks he''s prepared. He''s wrong. Nothing can prepare him for this ordeal, a quest for his family and for his soul, 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.Edgar-nominee Lee Goldberg lives in Tarzana, California.

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.