I didn't expect a murder mystery to make me laugh this much. Lee Goldberg pulled it off.
I went Live with him to talk about Murder by Design, the first book in his new Edison Bixby series, and the conversation was every bit as quick and funny as the book.
Edison Bixby is a former LAPD detective who took a bullet to the face. He survived, but the brain injury left him with zero filter — he says the rudest possible thing in the room every single time. He's also wealthy, brilliant, and now works as an insurance investigator who cracks cases by spotting how the design of a building or a space can make a murder possible.
His first case looks open and shut: a woman falls down a mall staircase in front of dozens of witnesses, all of it caught on video. Everyone sees an accident. Bixby sees a murder by design, where someone quietly engineered her into causing her own death. Pair him with Wally Nash, a broke actor hired mostly to keep Bixby from insulting everyone, and you've got the strangest, most entertaining Holmes-and-Watson duo I've read in ages.
Lee talked about how he got his inspiration for the book from a quote by a famous architect and how he wanted to write a fun and unique detective. He also said he's working on a sequel already.
It just hit shelves, so the timing couldn't be better. If you like your mysteries clever and a little tongue-in-cheek, this is your next read.
Thanks so much for taking the time to chat with me today, Lee. I really appreciate it and I'm already looking forward to the sequel!
You can watch the replay of our conversation here. Check out my full review of Murder by Design here.
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