Watch Me Die, Lee Goldberg
Watch Me Die, Lee Goldberg
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Watch Me Die

Author: Lee Goldberg

Narrator: Luke Daniels

Unabridged: 5 hr 42 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/09/2012


Synopsis

Harvey Mapes is a 26-year-old security guard who spends his nights in a guard shack outside a gated community in Southern California, reading detective novels, watching reruns, and waiting for his life to finally start…which happens when Cyril Parkus, one of the wealthy residents, asks Harvey to follow his beautiful wife Lauren.The lowly security guard jumps at the opportunity to fulfill his private eye fantasies and use everything he's learned from Spenser, Magnum, and Mannix. But things don't exactly go according to the books…or the reruns. As Harvey fumbles and stumbles through his first investigation, he discovers that the differences between fiction and reality can be deadly.(This book was previously released under the title The Man With the Iron-On Badge and nominated for Best Novel by the Private Eye Writers of America)

About Lee Goldberg

Lee Goldberg is a two-time Edgar Award–nominated TV producer and a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author. His many books include the long-running Diagnosis Murder and Monk mysteries, The Walk, King City, Watch Me Die, and the international bestseller The Heist, which he co-wrote with Janet Evanovich. His numerous TV writing and producing credits include Diagnosis Murder, Monk, SeaQuest, Nero Wolfe, and The Glades. He's also worked as a consultant for TV networks and studios in Europe, Canada, and Sweden and has served on the Board of the Mystery Writers of America.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Paul on May 27, 2022

Security Guard Harvey Mapes spends most of his time with his nose in detective books or watching detective series on TV. He daydreams of being a detective, and is suddenly given the opportunity to turn that dream into reality, or maybe just into a nightmare. Interesting enough story-line, but for th......more

Goodreads review by Lata on February 08, 2024

Harvey Mapes is a security guard of a high-end residential complex. The most interesting part of his work is when a coyote sneaks up with a dead pet and stares at him. All the excitement is from the numerous detective books that he reads. He often fantasizes about becoming a famous PI like the famou......more

Goodreads review by Ed on March 08, 2018

Author Lee Goldberg has what most Mystery/Thriller writes lack; a literary sense of humor. Private security guard Harvey Mapes works the graveyard shift on the gate of an exclusive Los Angeles suburb reading detective novels. Since he's up on all the TV and fiction detective series, he feels entirel......more

Goodreads review by K on July 06, 2020

The best thing about reading Lee Goldberg is how he manages to inject pure silliness into otherwise un-funny situations, and pulls it off with aplomb. My first forays with the author were reading his Ian Ludlow series, which were hilarious and entertaining. Watch Me Die wasn’t quite as funny, but we......more

Goodreads review by Evan on December 09, 2014

I loved this book. It's got a great premise whereby the "hero," such as he is, seems pretty damn close to a real person — a slovenly, underachieving, regular Joe who almost accidentally turns into a halfway-decent detective by the end. We're not talking about a superhero. We're talking about a guy w......more