The Murder Show, Matt Goldman
The Murder Show, Matt Goldman
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The Murder Show
A Novel

Author: Matt Goldman

Narrator: Dan Bittner

Unabridged: 7 hr 47 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/15/2025


Synopsis

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...

A Macmillan Audio production from Tor Forge.

About Matt Goldman

New York Times bestselling author MATT GOLDMAN is a playwright and Emmy Award-winning television writer for Seinfeld, Ellen, 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.

About Dan Bittner

Dan Bittner has narrated dozens of audio books and has starred on stage and on the screen, in movies such as Men in Black, Adventureland, and the Producers: The Movie Musical. He has also appeared onstage as Macbeth Malcolm and Sherlock Holmes in the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. He has narrated popular audio books such as The Eleventh Plague, Hero, and Forever.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Elizabeth of Silver's Reviews on April 20, 2025

Ethan didn’t expect to find what he found when he came back home to wait out the writer's strike. Ethan found his old flame Ro who is now on the police force and a renewed interest for both of them in finding out what really happened to their childhood friend Ricky who was a victim of a hit and run. B......more

Goodreads review by Linzie (suspenseisthrillingme) on April 19, 2025

What a truly special novel. From the very start, I fell into the words of The Murder Show’s poignant, fast-paced vibe. Immersive, cunning, and utterly transfixing, the multilayered plot, evocative setting, and compelling characters had me swept up in what was a finely tuned rollercoaster ride from b......more

Goodreads review by Mandy on March 12, 2025

I really enjoyed this book by screenwriter Matt Goldman. I was hooked from the started and listened to this in less than a day. You could really see his expertise in the TV world shine through, with the main character being a show runner for a show called The Murder Show. The narrator was fantastic,......more

Goodreads review by TheMysteryMO on April 01, 2025

I am a fan of the Nils Shapiro series by Matt Goldman so I was looking forward to starting this one on audio and thought both the cover and title were solid. Another sans-synopsis book for me which is always fun to just let the chapters unfurl. I was hoping for another book set in or near Minnesota......more

Goodreads review by Pam on December 21, 2024

I am a big fan of Matt Goldman. Certainly, part of my attraction to his novels (The Murder Show is his eighth book) is that they are almost all set in the Minneapolis area where I live. It is fun to recognize the streets his characters drive down or the restaurants, the lakes, the neighborhoods. But......more


Quotes

Praise for Matt Goldman

"First-class...The often amusing dialogue flows naturally, the emotional undercurrents ring true, and the mystery itself offers a full complement of suspects and motives. This novel about love, loss, and family ties isn’t to be missed." —Publishers Weekly, starred review, on Carolina Moonset

“Goldman has an unerring ear for snappy dialogue and a poet’s eye for the beauty of nature. This is a compelling story of how the past is never truly the past, and how we make sense of the gifts that are offered us in every present moment. I loved this book.”—William Kent Krueger on Carolina Moonset

“A writer to watch.” —Harlan Coben

“A perfect blend of light touch and dark story.” —Lee Child on Gone to Dust