Created by Lee Goldberg
Ex-cop turned insurance investigator EDISON BIXBY is brilliant. Just ask anyone.
Hell, just ask him.
He’s rich and handsome; a certified genius when it comes to cracking seemingly impossible crimes.
He’s also possibly just plain certifiable, obsessed with a crackpot theory (or is it?) about environmental design and how it affects and possibly even inspires crime. Oh, and he’s also unbearably rude, blurting out abrupt observations with absolutely zero filters, thanks to a traumatic brain injury — the result of being shot in the face when he was a cop.
So his employer, Triax Global Insurance, hires struggling actor WALLY NASH, whose biggest roles have mostly involved TV commercials for various drugs and is only a few small steps from living out of his car, to play babysitter to Edison. The company hopes Wally will act as a buffer between the abrasive investigator and the rest of the world.
Wally also serves as the confused but loyal first-person narrator to the proceedings, a trick TV writer and novelist Lee Goldberg also used to great effect in his Monk tie-in novelizations. But the author adds an additional twist here: Wally himself is a tad unreliable — prone to flights of fancy and often overcome by empathy; a sort of easily deluded Archie Goodwin to Edison’s mash-up of Nero Wolfe and TV’s Banacek.
The odd couple’s first book in a proposed series, Murder By Design (2026), finds the odd couple investigating four separate cases.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Lee Goldberg is a New York Times bestselling author and TV writer and producer. The Edgar and Shamus nominee’s writing and/or producing credits include Diagnosis Murder, Nero Wolfe, Spenser: For Hire, The Cosby Mysteries and Monk, and his other off-kilter gumshoes include Charlie Willis, who works as a studio fixer/security guard, Harvey Mapes, a wannabe PI, and Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department homicide detective Eve Ronin. He’s also co-written the Fox and Hare series with Janet Evanovich, and is the founder of Brash Books, which has brought back more great lost books from the Shamus Game than you could count. His non-fiction works include His non-fiction books include Successful Television Writing and Unsold Television Pilots.
UNDER OATH
- “A struggling actor teams up with a suave, design-obsessed ex-cop to investigate a string of suspicious deaths in this zany series launch from Goldberg… with Bixby coming off like a cross between James Bond and Adrian Monk. This lighthearted whodunit goes down smooth.”
— Publishers Weekly
NOVELS
- Murder by Design (2026) | Buy this book | Buy the audio | Kindle it!
FURTHER INVESTIGATION
- You Better Get Yourself Some Insurance, Baby
You’re in good hands with these eyes…
Respectfully submitted by Kevin Burton Smith.
