The murder show

The murder show

Matt Goldman, 1962-

Book - 2025

"Showrunner Ethan Harris had a hit with The Murder Show, a television crime drama that features a private detective who solves cases the police can't. But after his pitch for the fourth season is rejected by the network, he returns home to Minnesota looking for inspiration. His timing is fortunate -- his former classmate Ro Greeman is now a local police officer, and she's uncovered new information about the devastating hit and run that killed their mutual friend Ricky the summer after high school. She asks Ethan to help her investigate and thinks that if he portrays the killing on The Murder Show, the publicity may bring Ricky's killer to justice. Ethan is skeptical that Ricky's death was anything but a horrible acc...ident, but with the clock running out on his career, he's willing to try anything. It doesn't take long for them to realize they've dug up more than they bargained for. Someone is dead set on stopping Ethan and Ro from looking too closely into Ricky's death -- even if keeping them quiet means killing again..."--Dust jacket flap.

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Subjects
Television crime shows > Fiction.
Television producers and directors > Fiction.
Police > Minnesota > Fiction.
Hit-and-run drivers > Fiction.
Criminal investigation > Fiction.
Émissions criminelles télévisées > Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Producteurs et réalisateurs de télévision > Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Délits de fuite > Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Enquêtes criminelles > Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Minnesota > Fiction.
Minnesota > Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Detective and mystery fiction.
Thrillers (Fiction)
Genres
Detective and mystery fiction
Thrillers (Fiction)
Published
New York : Forge, Tor Publishing Group 2025.
Language
English
Main Author
Matt Goldman, 1962- (-)
Edition
First edition
Physical Description
294 pages ; 22 cm
ISBN
9781250325709
9781250325723
Contents unavailable.
Review by Publisher's Weekly Review

Goldman (Still Waters) disappoints with this rote thriller about a TV showrunner who uncovers a pattern of violence in his hometown. Ethan Harris returns home to Minneapolis during a Hollywood writers' strike, afraid that his crime series, The Murder Show, will be canceled if he doesn't formulate a strong concept for the upcoming fourth season. Serendipitously, he runs into Ro Greeman, an old classmate and former flame who's become a cop in the years since both graduated from high school. She immediately offers a suggestion for Harris's show: 22 years earlier, their friend, Ricky O'Shea, was killed by a hit-and-run driver, and Ro suspects that his death was linked to 11 similar cases that occurred over the past 30 years. While writing up a storm, Ethan agrees to help Ro investigate. When an unseen assailant shoots at them, they realize they're onto something. Goldman lapses into purple prose ("Time ticked to nowhere as their lips and hands said what their voices had been unable to articulate"), and the plotting feels overfamiliar. There's not much to see here. Agent: Jennifer Weltz, Jean V. Naggar Literary. (Apr.)

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