The Murder Show: A Novel

· Macmillan Audio · Narrated by Dan Bittner
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7 hr 47 min
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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...

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5.0
1 review
Terri Chlapek
April 9, 2025
4.5 stars. I thought this was a really good mystery. An on-strike TV show writer has returned home to Minnesota to visit his parents. He immediately runs into an old (almost) flame who is now on the police force. When they were in high school, a friend of theirs died. It was ruled as an accident, but Ro isn't convinced and offers it up to Ethan as a possible story line for his show. The two start investigating and find nothing but trouble. I listened to the audio version narrated by Dan Bittner and really enjoyed the narration. The voices were good (I loved Ethan's parents!). It was a fast moving story that had me finishing it in two days. Thanks to Macmillan Audio and NetGalley for the audio. All thoughts are my own.
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About the author

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.

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