In a world built for murder, only one damaged investigator can see the deadly design in #1 New York Times bestselling author Lee Goldberg’s witty, fresh and clever new take on the whodunit.
Coming in May 2026
Edison Bixby had it all: fame, fortune, and an uncanny ability to solve Los Angeles’s most puzzling crimes. Then a bullet changed everything. Now he’s a brain-damaged insurance investigator who can’t control what he says —which can be brilliant and inappropriate in equal measure.
Enter Wally Nash, a struggling actor hired to keep Bixby from offending everyone. Their first case seems simple: a woman’s fatal slip and fall in a shopping mall, witnessed by hundreds. But where others see tragedy, Bixby sees calculation: someone designed this death, using the mall’s own architecture as their weapon.
As other deadly accidents happen, each one more ingeniously orchestrated than the last, Bixby and Nash uncover a conspiracy that reaches into the city’s highest towers. But proving it means more than just solving a crime—it means staying alive while a masterful killer tries to design their demise.
First in a captivating new series that will change how you see the world around us.