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Murder by Design

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In a world carefully constructed for murder, solving crimes takes a keen mind and eye in a witty, clever, and fresh reinvention of the whodunit by #1 New York Times bestselling author Lee Goldberg.

Edison Bixby is wealthy, handsome, and, due to a traumatic brain injury, impulsively rude. He’s also a brilliant insurance investigator who solves baffling crimes by figuring out how the design of the man-made world around us makes them possible. Enter Wally Nash: a struggling actor hired to keep Bixby from offending everyone he meets.

Their first case together looks like a simple accident. Caroline Crowley took a nasty fall down a staircase at a shopping mall in front of dozens of witnesses. Video clearly shows the deadly misstep. But Bixby is certain she was murdered by design, subtly manipulated into causing her own demise. The mall itself made the crime intentional, if not inevitable.

Now Bixby must prove his outrageous theory before a very cunning killer gets others on his hit list to murder themselves, too.

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Brian H9 / 10

“I enjoyed the book very much.  While touted as mystery/thriller, it was not a true thriller.  It was so easy to read, it was filled with tongue in cheek humor.  The main character, Edison Bixby, is a former LA police detective with a brain injury that makes him spout uncomfortable truth whenever he opens his mouth. Certainly not at all politically correct,…”

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Lee Goldberg

Lee Goldberg has always been fascinated by the threads that connect people, places, and events, and how a single overlooked detail can unravel a mystery. From an early age, he was drawn to stories where clever observation and human intuition met danger and deception, a fascination that would shape his career as a…

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