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Murder by Design: A Thriller

by Lee Goldberg

A crime scene built into the everyday world

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    #1 New York Times bestselling author Lee Goldberg

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A crime scene built into the everyday world

Insurance investigator Edison Bixby examines crimes through the design of the environments where they occur, looking for ways ordinary structures can make a death appear accidental. In his first case with struggling actor Wally Nash, a fatal fall at a shopping mall is captured on video, yet Bixby suspects the setting was manipulated to turn a murder into an apparent misstep. The investigation brings together a detective puzzle and a premise centered on how built spaces can shape human actions. The book pairs Bixby’s investigative reasoning with Nash’s role as a buffer in his encounters with other people, setting up a police-procedural mystery about intention, evidence, and engineered circumstances.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers who enjoy police-procedural mysteries and whodunits.
  • Readers interested in crime puzzles involving physical environments and forensic reasoning.
  • Readers drawn to investigative duos with contrasting roles.

Themes

Design and the built environmentIntent and apparent accidentCrime investigationEvidence and deduction

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Book overview

In a world carefully constructed for murder, solving crimes takes a keen mind and eye in a witty, clever, and fresh reinvention of the whodunit by #1 New York Times bestselling author Lee Goldberg.

Edison Bixby is wealthy, handsome, and, due to a traumatic brain injury, impulsively rude. He's also a brilliant insurance investigator who solves baffling crimes by figuring out how the design of the man-made world around us makes them possible. Enter Wally Nash: a struggling actor hired to keep Bixby from offending everyone he meets.

Their first case together looks like a simple accident. Caroline Crowley took a nasty fall down a staircase at a shopping mall in front of dozens of witnesses. Video clearly shows the deadly misstep. But Bixby is certain she was murdered by design, subtly manipulated into causing her own demise. The mall itself made the crime intentional, if not inevitable.

Now Bixby must prove his outrageous theory before a very cunning killer gets others on his hit list to murder themselves, too.

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