Lee Goldberg Books In Order

Mr. Monk Goes to the Firehouse

The brand new mystery series starring the brilliant, beloved, and slightly off balance sleuth from the USA Network’s hit show! Monk’s house is being fumigated, and he has nowhere to go. Fortunately, his assistant Natalie and her daughter are kind enough to welcome him into their home. Unfortunately, their home is not quite up to Monk’s standards of cleanliness and order. But while Monk attempts to arrange his surroundings just so, something else needs to be put straight. The death of a dog at the local firehouse on the same night as a fatal house fire has led Monk into a puzzling mystery. And much to his horror, he’s going to have to dig through a lot of dirt to find the answer.

Mr. Monk Goes to Hawaii

Some people think Hawaii is paradise, but Monk knows that danger, like dirt, lurks everywhere. Look at Helen Gruber, the rich tourist who took a fatal blow from a coconut. The police say it fell from a tree, but Monk suspects otherwise. His assistant Natalie isn’t exactly thrilled about Monk’s latest investigation. It was bad enough Monk followed her on vacation, and now it looks like the vacation is over. Smooth talking TV psychic Dylan Swift is on the island and claims to have a message from beyond from Helen Gruber. Monk has his doubts about Swift’s credibility. But finding the killer and proving Swift a fraud all while coping with geckos and the horror of unsynchronized ceiling fans may prove a tough coconut to crack.

Mr. Monk and The Blue Flu

Monk is horrified when he learns there’s going to be a blue flu in San Francisco until Capt. Stottlemeyer explains that it just means the police plan to call in ‘sick’ until they get a better contract. The good news is the labor dispute will give Monk a chance to get back on the force. The bad news is it means he’ll be a ‘scab’ and he doesn’t like the sound of that either. But before he knows it, Monk has his badge back, and his own squad to command. Unfortunately, some of the squad members make Monk look like a paragon of mental health. But despite the challenges, they’ll have to pull together to catch an astrologer’s killer, solve a series of mysterious fatal assaults, and most importantly, clean up their desks.

Mr. Monk and The Two Assistants

Fourth in the all new series of original mysteries starring Adrian Monk, the brilliant investigator who always knows when something’s out of place.

Now that her ne’er do well husband has been arrested for murder, Monk’s former assistant, Sharona, is ready to reclaim her place in Monk’s extremely well ordered life. But his current assistant, Natalie, is not pleased with this turn of events.

While Monk tries to maintain a delicate balance between the two women, he discovers a few snags in the case against Sharona’s husband. And with other murders to investigate, Monk realizes he may be up against a killer who not only understands him, but is one step ahead.

Mr. Monk in Outer Space

First time in PaperbackBased on the hit USA Network series from Edgar Award nominated Monk screenwriter Lee GoldbergMonk journeys into the realm of the cult science fiction show Beyond Earth where he meets fans just as obsessive compulsive as he is. Though he’s not preoccupied with the program himself, Monk can understand where they re coming from. But there may be a killer among them: someone in a starship uniform has gunned down the show s creator

Mr. Monk Goes to Germany

An all new novel starring the obsessively beloved TV detective who always knows when something’s out of place

Adrian Monk has actually been doing well lately. He s solving murders as fast as they come, and he s been noticeably less compulsive. Monk knows he owes it all to his therapist, Dr. Kroger. So when Kroger attends a conference in Germany, Monk hits the skids, reverting to his OCD habits full time. Desperate, Monk follows his shrink to Germany. And that s when he sees the man across a crowded town square. A man with six fingers. Monk knows it could be the man responsible for his wife s death.

Mr. Monk is Miserable

More compulsive, page turning fun in this all new, original mystery starring the popular TV detective.

Monk already ruined a trip to Germany for his longsuffering assistant Natalie. The least he can do is accompany her on a detour to France and try not to ruin that too. In fact, Monk throws Natalie for a loop by announcing that he wants to visit the sewers of Paris. The historic underground maze of pipes and tunnels is famous for making the City of Light sanitary, and to Monk, that’s worth paying tribute to.

The only problem is that their explorations lead them to another hidden world below the Parisian streets: the catacombs, filled with aging skulls and bones. Monk s sharp eye catches sight of one skull that s not so old and that shows evidence of murder pulling them into a case more twisted than the catacombs themselves.

Mr. Monk and the Dirty Cop

More compulsive fun in this all new, original mystery starring everyone’s favorite OCD detective, ‘one of television’s best loved characters.’Honolulu Star BulletinLeland Stottlemeyer is used to obsessive compulsive genius Adrian Monk getting all the praise and attention. But the police captain is feeling a little hostile after taking a lot of ribbing about his reliance on his star consultant. Is it possible he’s used the latest round of budget cuts as an excuse to cut Monk loose? But Monk is much too compulsive to stop investigating, even without pay. Soon he’s calling in tips under assumed names to help solve cases. Who would ever guess the real identity of ‘Adrian Smith’ and ‘Adrian Jones?’ Then Stottlemeyer is framed for the murder of another cop and only one detective in San Francisco can save him…

Mr. Monk in Trouble

Ever since a 1962 unsolved train robbery made it famous, people have made their way to Trouble in California’s gold country to search for the booty that train robbers supposedly dumped in the botched heist. When the museum watchman is murdered, Monk and his assistant, Natalie, are sent to investigate. Monk becomes obsessed with the legendary unsolved robbery, discovering a personal connection to the town s past. During the tail end of the gold rush, Trouble s assayer was one Artemus Monk. Natalie can t help but notice the resemblance. But that might not be the only thing that ties the past to the present, and if Monk isn t careful, he ll learn how the town of Trouble lives up to its name.

Mr. Monk is Cleaned Out

Monk’s been swindled out of his savings but now it’s payback time, in the latest original mystery featuring everyone’s favorite OCD detective. In the midst of a financial crisis, the SFPD fires Adrian Monk as a consultant. Monk figures he can live off his savings for a while. Then Natalie learns that Monk invested his money some time ago with Bob Sebes, the charismatic leader of Reinier Investments, who’s just been arrested on charges of orchestrating a massive $100 million fraud. All of Sebes’ clients including Monk are completely wiped out. When the key witness in the government’s case against Sebes is killed, Monk is convinced that Sebes did it, but the man has been under house arrest with a horde of paparazzi in front of his building 24/7. Monk may be broke, but he’s got plenty of time on his hands to solve this latest mystery…

Mr. Monk on the Road

Monk’s out on the open highway but crime is a hitchhiker that won’t be ignored. With his job secure and his wife’s murder finally solved, Adrian Monk is feeling strangely…
satisfied. He’d like his agoraphobic brother Ambrose to feel the same way, so Monk puts a secret ingredient in Ambrose’s birthday cake: sleeping pills. When Ambrose wakes up, he’s in a motorhome on the open road with Monk determined to show him the outside world. But Ambrose isn’t the only one struggling to let go. As little crimes pop up along the highway, Monk can’t resist getting involved. Now it’s up to Monk to stop a murderer from turning their road trip into a highway to hell.

Mr. Monk on Patrol

When the local government of Summit, New Jersey, is hit with a string of arrests, Chief of Police Randy Disher finds himself acting as mayor. With a town to run and a series of robberies to investigate, he calls on Adrian Monk to serve as a temporary policeman.

My Gun Has Bullets

When Beverly Hills Police Officer Charlie Willis pulls over a speeding Rolls Royce hell bent for Neiman Marcus, he’s surprised to see Esther Radcliffe, the geriatric star of the TV series Miss Agatha, behind the wheel. He’s even more surprised when she guns him down and keeps on driving. A few hours later, he wakes up in the intensive care unit to find a William Morris agent, a network president, and the head of Pinnacle Studios standing at the foot of his bed. They have a proposal for him: in exchange for conveniently forgetting who shot him, they’ll make him the star of his own series, My Gun Has Bullets. So Charlie trades in his real badge for a fake one and so begins an uproarious but deadly romp through the wonderful world of TV make believe with real bullets. To make it to sweeps week, Charlie will have to survive two homicidal stuntmen, a rabid celebrity dog, a hit man turned producer, a psychotic old lady, a sex crazed blackmailer, and vicious ratings with only a stunning, leather clad Baywatch beauty to help him. ‘It will make you cackle like a sitcom laugh track. Goldberg keeps the gags coming right up to the end.’ Entertainment Weekly ‘A very funny novel a pinch of Carl Hiaasen, a dash of Donald Westlake, and a heaping portion of avarice and inanity Hollywood Style. It’s boffo!’ Thomas Gaughan, Booklist ‘A rousing send up of everything and everyone in the world of show biz.’ Judith Kreiner, The Washington Times

Dead Space

Ex cop Charlie Willis handles ‘special security’ at Pinnacle Pictures. His job: to protect the studio and its stars, to stop scandals before they explode, to keep the peace in the land of make believe. When Pinnacle revives the cult, 1960s TV series ‘Beyond the Beyond’ as the cornerstone of a fourth network, two powerful forces fight for control of the show a talent agency that uses blackmail, torture, and murder to keep its clients on the A list, and a homicidal legion of rabid fans led by an insane actor who thinks he’s in outer space. This book, the sequel to ‘My Gun Has Bullets,’ was originally entitled ‘Beyond the Beyond’ when it was published by St. Martin’s Press in 1997

The Silent Partner

Dr. Mark Sloan is assigned to LAPD’s ‘unsolved homicide’ files. As he reopens one case on the murder of a woman whose killer currently sits on Death Row, Sloan learns that the wrong man was charged. And that the real killer is still at large…

The Death Merchant

A dream vacation in Hawaii turns into a nightmare for Dr. Mark Sloan and his son, Steve, when a man they’ve befriended falls victim to a shark attack. But when Mark discovers evidence indicating the victim was murdered prior to becoming shark food, he and Steve comb the beaches to find a different kind of predator…

The Shooting Script

Dr. Mark Sloan is drawn to the sounds of gunfire at his neighbor’s Malibu beach house. There, he discovers the bullet riddled bodies of an aspiring actress a Hollywood producer. An obvious suspect is the producer’s wife who has gunpowder residue all over her clothing, but also has a perfect alibi. However, Mark thinks that the crime scene resembles a hit more than a crime of passion. When he and his son start investigating a local mob kingpin’s involvement, Mark soon finds himself unpopular with the police and, of course, with the murderer.

The Waking Nightmare

A new mystery featuring Dr. Mark Sloan. Dr. Mark Sloan saves a would be suicide victim, but her jump from a building ledge has left her in a coma. Obsessed with learning why she attempted suicide, Sloan stumbles into a manhunt for a cop killer who may turn his attention to nosy physicians next.

The Past Tense

Dr. Mark Sloan is startled to discover a dead woman dressed as a mermaid washed up on the beach outside his home. Even more bizarre, the autopsy reveals a digital memory card within a capsule inside the body’s stomach. The card contains the report of a forty three year old murder in Los Angeles the first homicide case Mark ever solved, when he was a struggling intern and newlywed father. When a second body is discovered a woman who was apparently the victim of an impromptu autopsy in her own kitchen the good doctor realizes that he must find the connection between the two murders. And perhaps more urgently, the connection to his own past…

The Dead Letter

A blackmailer, a dead detective, and a mysterious letter that make an unusual request of Dr. Sloan: avenge a murder.

The Double Life

When Dr. Mark Sloan wakes up in his own hospital’s I.C.U., he doesn’t remember how he got there or anything from the last two years of his life, including a wife he doesn’t recognize, and grandkids he never knew existed. He learns that he was run down in the street while investigating a series of mysterious deaths, all of whom were patients recently recovered from life threatening illnesses and accidents. Mark resumes his investigation, only to realize that his ‘accident’ was no accident, and that there is little time left to prevent another murder his own.

The Last Word

When a young woman falls down a flight of stairs and is left brain dead, her family agrees to donate her organs. Dr. Jesse Travis oversees the grim task, saving several other seriously ill patients. But one of the organ recipients returns to the hospital with a complication no one could have seen coming West Nile Virus. Soon, other patients who received organs at Community General begin dying of West Nile related illnesses, and Jesse is suspected as being at fault…
Dr. Mark Sloan knows his friend isn’t to blame and he soon uncovers a conspiracy of greed and personal revenge that may mean the end of his career.

The Walk

It’s one minute after the Big One. Marty Slack, a TV network executive, crawls out from under his Mercedes, parked outside what once was a downtown Los Angeles warehouse, the location for a new TV show. Downtown LA is in ruins. The sky is thick with black smoke. His cell phone is dead. The freeways are rubble. The airport is demolished. Buildings lay across streets like fallen trees. It will be days before help can arrive. Marty has been expecting this day all his life. He’s prepared. In his car are a pair of sturdy walking shoes and a backpack of food, water, and supplies. He knows there is only one thing he can do…
that he must do: get home to his wife Beth, go back to their gated community on the far edge of the San Fernando Valley. All he has to do is walk. But he will quickly learn that it’s not that easy. His dangerous, unpredictable journey home will take him through the different worlds of what was once Los Angeles. Wildfires rage out of control. Flood waters burst through collapsed dams. Natural gas explosions consume neighborhoods. Sinkholes swallow entire buildings. After shocks rip apart the ground. Looters rampage through the streets. There’s no power. No running water. No order. Marty Slack thinks he’s prepared. He’s wrong. Nothing can prepare him for this ordeal, a quest for his family and for his soul, a journey that will test the limits of his endurance and his humanity, a trek from the man he was to the man he can be…
if he can survive The Walk. CRITICAL ACCLAIM FOR LEE GOLDBERG ‘You’ll finish this book breathless!’ New York Times Bestselling author Janet Evanovich’Leaves you guessing right up until the heart stopping ending,’ New York Times bestselling author Lisa Gardner’Lee Goldberg can plot and write with the best of them,’ Mystery Scene Magazine’With books this good, who needs TV?’ Chicago Sun Times’You’d be hard pressed to find another recent work that provides so many hip and humorous moments,’ Bookgasm’Can books be better than TV? You bet they can when Lee Goldberg’s writing them. Get aboard now for a thrill ride,’ New York Times bestselling author Lee Child

The Man with the Iron-On Badge

‘As dark and twisted as anything Hammett or Chandler ever dreamed up…
.’ Kirkus, Starred Review’Approaching the level of Lawrence Block is no mean feat, but Goldberg succeeds with this engaging PI novel.’ Publishers WeeklyHarvey 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. With the help of his mortgage broker neighbor and occasional lover Carol, Harvey uncovers a blackmail plot that takes a sudden and unexpectedly tragic turn…
plunging him into a world of violence, deception and murder…
and forcing him to discover what it really takes to be a private eye. This hardcover edition of this book is now out of print. New Kindle and paperback editions have now been released under the title WATCH ME DIE. CRITICAL ACCLAIM FOR ‘WATCH ME DIE”A wonderfully fresh voice in the mystery genre, Goldberg will delight fans of Janet Evanovich and Robert Crais,’ Rick Riordan, author of ‘Percy Jackson & the Olympians”Lee Goldberg bravely marches into territory already staked out by some fierce competition Donald Westlake, Lawrence Block, the early Harlan Coben and comes out virtually unscathed.’ The Chicago Tribune’Goldberg has a knack for combining just the right amount of humor and realism with his obvious love for the PI genre and his own smart ass sensibilities…
. A terrific read. Goldberg is the real deal and should be on everyone’s must read list.’ Crimespree Magazine’A quick, fun read with a satisfying and unexpected ending. Harvey Mapes is a hero I hope we see in a sequel.’ Phillip Margolin, author of ‘Gone But Not Forgotten’

Three Ways to Die

This collection gathers together three acclaimed short stories ‘Jack Webb’s Star,’ ‘Remaindered,’ and ‘Bumsickle’ by Edgar nominated writer Lee Goldberg, author of the bestselling MONK and DIAGNOSIS MURDER series of original mystery novels. ‘Jack Webb’s Star’ originally appeared in the anthology ‘Hollywood and Crime.’ ‘Bumsickle’ originally appeared in the anthology Fedora III. ‘Remaindered’ originally appeared in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine and was a Reader’s Choice Award finalist.

Unsold TV Pilots: The Greatest Shows You Never Saw

The best bathroom reading ever! San Francisco Chronicle

The shows that got away luckily.

Hollywood Reporter

Packed with amusing failures. Chicago Sun Times

Irresistible and enthralling. Hartford Courant

Full of fool’s gold and genuine TV treasures. The New York Post

Finally in paperback! This two volume set will tell you everything you could possibly want to know about the thousands of TV series ideas rejected by the networks since 1955 who made them, who starred in them, what they were about, and why they ultimately failed.

Television Series Revivals: Sequels or Remakes of Cancelled Shows

Did Gilligan and his fellow castaways ever get rescued? Is Dr. Marcus Welby still making house calls? Is Marcia Brady single? What kind of father did Beaver Cleaver grow up to be? Those questions and many, many more about your favorite TV characters are answered in this unique and entertaining book, which examines every TV series remake and sequel produced from 1955 1992.’A useful and entertaining volume’ Booklist

Science Fiction Filmmaking in the 1980s: Interviews with Actors, Directors, Producers and Writers

Aliens, Bladerunner, Dune, Mad Max, Return of the Jedi, the Star Trek series, Blue Thunder, Cocoon, Enemy Mine, Robocop, 2010, War Games movies that defined science fiction films in the 1980s. But what was it like making these movies? Interviews previously published in slightly different form in Starlog take you behind the scenes with the people who made these movies happen, including David Lynch, Kyle MacLachlin, Raffaella De Laurentiis, Mel Gibson, Harve Bennett, William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Roy Scheider, Keir Dullea, Richard Marquand, John Badham, Ridley Scott, and Gale Ann Hurd.

The Dreamweavers: Interviews with Fantasy Filmmakers of the 1980’s

The box office smash Back to the Future was almost a bomb, saved only by the talents of Michael J. Fox, who was brought in to star six weeks after production had started. Ivan Reitman wasn’t really interested in directing Ghostbusters. Producer Gloria Katz described Howard the Duck as ‘a comedy about a person with certain particular characteristics,’ foremost of which was that he was a duck. These insights and many more are revealed in these interviews with some of the leading creative talents in Hollywood fantasy films during the 1980s. Fox, Reitman, Katz, Joe Dante, Robert Zemeckis, Robert Donner, Jamie Gertz, Ray Bradbury, Michael Ritchie, Timothy Dalton and others discuss Big Trouble in Little China, James Bond, Conan, Dead Zone, Gremlins, Ladyhawke, Lost Boys, and other fantasy films of the decade. Each of the interviews previously published in a different form in Starlog is preceded by a brief introduction setting it in context.

Successful Television Writing

The industry speaks out about Successful Television Writing‘Where was this book when I was starting out? A fantastic, fun, informative guide to breaking into?and more importantly, staying in?the TV writing game from the guys who taught me how to play it.’ Terence Winter, Coexecutive Producer, The Sopranos’Goldberg and Rabkin write not only with clarity and wit but also with the authority gleaned from their years of slogging through Hollywood?s trenches. Here is a must read for new writers and established practitioners whose imagination could use a booster shot.’ Professor Richard Walter, Screenwriting Chairman, UCLA Department of Film and TV’Not since William Goldman?s Adventures in the Screen Trade has there been a book this revealing, funny, and informative about The Industry. Reading this book is like having a good, long lunch with your two best friends in the TV business.’ Janet Evanovich’With sharp wit and painful honesty, Goldberg and Rabkin offer the truest account yet of working in the TV business. Accept no substitutes!’ Jeffrey B. Hodes and Nastaran Dibai, Coexecutive Producers, Third Rock from the Sun’Should be required reading for all aspiring television writers.’ Howard Gordon, Executive Producer, 24 and The X Files

Tied In: The Business, History and Craft of Media Tie-In Writing

Tie in novels are books based on pre existing media properties like TV shows, movies and games and they regularly top the national bestseller lists. But as popular as tie ins books and novelizations are among readers, few people know how the books are written or the rich history behind the hugely successful and enduring genre. This 75,000 word book is a ground breaking collection of lively, informative, and provocative essays and interviews by some of the best selling, and most acclaimed, writers in the tie in business, offering an inside glimpse into what they do and how they do it. Contributors include Donald Bain, Max Allan Collins, Tod Goldberg, Elizabeth Massie, William C. Dietz, Aaron Rosenberg, Paul Kupperberg, Jeff Mariotte, Raymond Benson, Robert Greenberger, David Spencer, Greg Cox, Burl Barer, Jeff Ayers, Nancy Holder, Brandie Tarvin, Alina Adams and William Rabkin. This book is an official publication of the International Association of Media Tie In Writers.

Face of Evil (With: William Rabkin)

Matthew Cahill is an ordinary man leading a simple life…
until a shocking accident changes everything. Now each day is a journey into a dark world he knows nothing about…
a quest for the answers to who he is and what he has become…
and a fight to save us, and his soul, from the clutches of pure evil.