Matt Goldman discusses The Murder Show

Fans of Nils Shapiro, Matt Goldman’s series character, will be pleased to hear Nils will be back in his own book, Dark Humor, in December. Shapiro appears in a few chapters in Goldman’s latest book, The Murder Show, the book he talked about at The Poisoned Pen Bookstore. There are signed copies of The Murder Show available in the Webstore. https://bit.ly/3RnWSOF

Here’s the description of The Murder Show.

The Murder Show is a pulse-racing novel about secrets, old friends, and how the past never leaves us by New York Times bestselling and Emmy Award winning author Matt Goldman!

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 accident, 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…


New York Times bestselling author MATT GOLDMAN is a playwright and Emmy Award-winning television writer for SeinfeldEllen, and other shows. Goldman has been nominated for the Shamus and Nero Awards and was a Lariat Adult Fiction Reading List selection. He lives in Minnesota with his wife, pets, and whichever children happen to be around.


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