Dead West, Matt Goldman
Dead West, Matt Goldman
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Dead West

Author: Matt Goldman

Narrator: Bronson Pinchot

Unabridged: 2 hr 20 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/03/2020

Synopsis

Emmy Award–winning author Matt Goldman brings back Shapiro, the popular Minneapolis private detective, for another thrilling, standalone adventure.Nils Shapiro accepts what appears to be an easy, lucrative job: find out if Beverly Mayer’s grandson is foolishly throwing away his trust fund in Hollywood, especially now, in the wake of his fiancée’s tragic death. However, that easy job becomes much more complicated once Nils arrives in Los Angeles, a disorienting place where the sunshine hides dark secrets.Nils quickly suspects that Ebben Mayer’s fiancée was murdered, and that Ebben himself may have been the target. As Nils moves into Ebben’s inner circle, he discovers that everyone in Ebben’s professional life―his agent, manager, a screenwriter, a producer―seem to have dubious motives at best.With Nil’s friend Jameson White, who has come to Los Angeles to deal with demons of his own, acting as Ebben’s bodyguard, Nils sets out to find a killer before it’s too late.

About Matt Goldman

New York Times bestselling author Matt Goldman is a playwright, and an Emmy Award–winning television writer for Seinfeld, Ellen, and other shows. He brings his signature storytelling abilities and light touch to the Nils Shapiro series, which started with his debut novel, Gone to Dust. Goldman has been nominated for Shamus and Nero Awards and was a Lariat Adult Fiction Reading List selection. He lives in Minnesota with his wife, two dogs, two cats, and whichever children happen to be around.

About Bronson Pinchot

Bronson Pinchot, Audible’s Narrator of the Year for 2010, has won Publishers Weekly Listen-Up Awards, AudioFile Earphones Awards, Audible’s Book of the Year Award, and Audie Awards for several audiobooks, including Matterhorn, Wise Blood, Occupied City, and The Learners. A magna cum laude graduate of Yale, he is an Emmy- and People’s Choice-nominated veteran of movies, television, and Broadway and West End shows. His performance of Malvolio in Twelfth Night was named the highlight of the entire two-year Kennedy Center Shakespeare Festival by the Washington Post. He attended the acting programs at Shakespeare & Company and Circle-in-the-Square, logged in well over 200 episodes of television, starred or costarred in a bouquet of films, plays, musicals, and Shakespeare on Broadway and in London, and developed a passion for Greek revival architecture.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Laura

I’ve read this whole series so far and this was by far the best! Nils Shapiro is a character in all sense of the word and his wit is to die for! The character evolvement in this installment was excellent and made for a fast paced & highly entertaining read! Thanks to the author for this early signed......more

Goodreads review by Anne

I knew I was going to love this book (even though I've not read the first 3) when I realized I had a fictional crush on Nils on page 4! He is hired by Ebben's grandmother to discover facts around his young wife's untimely death. Nils must travel from Minnesota to L.A.--a huge change for him. Maybe i......more

Goodreads review by Kathy

This latest book featuring Nils Shapiro, private investigator, is entertaining, cohesive, sometimes enchanting and always interesting. I did read the second book in this series a while back and since I am from Minnesota myself, I may have been a tad harsh in my review and did not expect to read anot......more

Goodreads review by 3 no 7

Hollywood drama from a Montana perspective “Dead West” is a story of films and family, devotion and deception, danger and redemption. It is part of Goldman’s series that features Nils Shapiro and Stone Arch Investigations, and new readers will find any necessary background information contained withi......more

Goodreads review by Alecia

I found this to be a moderately enjoyable read (some parts more enjoyable than others), and a bit more contemplative than most mysteries of this type. But the plot was slightly convoluted and a bit unconvincing at times. I have not read any of the author's previous books, so I don't know if the prot......more

Quotes

“Goldman is flat-out hilarious when he’s satirizing Hollywood hustlers…Observing them in groups—pitching ideas, taking meetings and poisoning their best friends—is too funny for words.” New York Times Book Review

“Excellent…Goldman takes a classic trope—a working-class private detective set loose in Hollywood—and squeezes enough originality out of it to make for a dazzling tale.” Publishers Weekly (starred review)

“Interesting twists, great peripheral characters, insights into specific communities, and enough peril to keep readers turning pages past bedtime.” Booklist (starred review)

“A droll portrait of ‘a town where almost everything and everyone was for sale,’ with felonies obbligato.” Kirkus Reviews

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