Portfolio Tag: Crown Vic

“Diamond hard noir. No holds barred, no punches pulled. There’s a whole lot of fun to be had. Sharp, to-the-point, and briskly-written. More Ray Boyd please, Mr. Goldberg.” 
—CrimeTime FM

Ray Boyd is an ex-con traveling the open road in a used Ford Crown Victoria Police Interceptor, going wherever his need for money and sex lead him, thinking only of himself and nobody else.

In “If I Were a Rich Man,” Goldberg’s brutal, sexually explicit, and darkly funny new novella, Ray is on the trail of lost diamonds from a legendary jewelry heist…and stumbles into a twisted honey trap.

Praise for the Ray Boyd stories:

“Boyd plays all the notes just right. The trip is a blast.” Dark City Underground

“Goldberg brings on the funny while being wildly observant.” Los Angeles Times

“Ray, even with all his failings, is a Lee Goldberg character: observant, witty, at times downright funny – for the reader at least – and a heck of a good escape for all of us drab work-a-day slobs.” Gravetapping

“A fun departure for Goldberg and a throwback to the thrilling and erotic men’s adventure novels of the 1970s.” Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine

“And here I thought that Lee Goldberg was such a nice boy…but in Crown Vic, he unleashes the beast with stories that just reek of 1950s pulp paperbacks.” The Thrilling Detective

This hand-grenade of pure noir features two, never-before-published crime stories about Ray Boyd, an ex-con traveling the open road in a used, black-and-white, Ford Crown Vic Police Interceptor. Ray is the anti-Reacher. He doesn’t help people in trouble. He helps himself.

Fair warning, these two violent, sexually explicit stories—”Ray Boyd Isn’t Stupid” and “Occasional Risk”—mark a sharp departure from the police procedurals and fast-moving thrillers that Goldberg is known for, though they feature the same ingenious plotting, colorful characters, and outrageous wit of his best-loved work. They are, as he says in his lively introduction, a test run. If there is an enthusiastic response to the stories, he says that Ray Boyd will be back…

Praise for Crown Vic

“Diamond hard noir. No holds barred, no punches pulled. There’s a whole lot of fun to be had. Clever stories that riff on the classics. Sharp, to-the-point, and briskly-written. More Ray Boyd please, Mr. Goldberg.”
—CrimeTime FM

“Crown Vic’s stories are a marvelous mash-up of Dan J. Marlowe’s early Earl Drake novels—The Name of the Game is Death, Endless Hour—and the erotic thrillers so popular in video stores during the 1990s. But Ray, even with all his failings, is a Lee Goldberg character: observant, witty, at times downright funny—for the reader at least—and a heck of a good escape for all of us drab work-a-day slobs.”
—Gravetapping

“And here I thought that Lee Goldberg was such a nice boy…I mean, the man wrote episodes of Diagnosis Murder! And its tie-ins! But in Crown Vic, Goldberg unleashes the beast with two violent, sexually explicit and previously unpublished stories that just reek of 1950s pulp paperbacks.”
—The Thrilling Detective