The Morning Show Murders

Zusatztext   “This is a funny! funny! very funny mystery that really gallops along and has several cool twists. Maybe Al Roker should quit his day job.” —James Patterson “Dazzling . . . If you like your crime with a brilliant plot! crackling dialogue! a dash of celebrity and plenty of suspense! then The Morning Show Murders is an absolute must-read.” —Linda Fairstein   “Terrific plot! fast! funny! and full of action and adventure with even a touch of steamy romance.”—Janet Evanovich   “Required reading.”— New York Post   “Great fun! Al pulls back the curtain to reveal what really goes on when the cameras go off.” —Harlan Coben Informationen zum Autor Al Roker is known to over thirty million viewers for his work on NBC’s Today show! a role that has earned him ten Emmy awards. He is the New York Times bestselling author of Don’t Make Me Stop This Car!: Adventures in Fatherhood . An accomplished cook! Roker also has two bestselling cookbooks to his credit. Al Roker lives in Manhattan with his wife! ABC News and 20/20 correspondent Deborah Roberts! and has two daughters and a son. Dick Lochte is the author of many popular crime novels including the award-winning Sleeping Dog! named one of “the 100 Favorite Mysteries of the Century” by the Independent Mystery Booksellers Association. His crime fiction column ran for nearly a decade in the Los Angeles Times and earned him the 2003 Ellen Nehr Award for Excellence in Mystery Reviewing. He lives in Southern California. From the Hardcover edition. Klappentext Treachery abounds in Roker's riotously thrilling debut novel. When the network head is murdered! charming host Billy Blessing is implicated. But it's TV--and everyone's a suspect. Chapter One The big guy lumbered toward me, waving the cleaver. Weeping like a baby.  “Take it easy, buddy,” I said. “No harm done.”  “I d-d-didn’t mean to do it. I swear to God I didn’t.”  “I hope not,” I said, looking at the mangled, bloody mess he’d caused. “Why don’t you give me that cleaver before you make this any worse?”  “I’m a screwup,” the big guy said. He was close enough for me to read the little name tag on his white coat. Eldon Something with Too Many Consonants.  “We all have bad days, Eldon,” I told him. “Just hand me the cleaver.”  He hesitated, then handed over the knife. He made a loud sniff to clear his sinuses, then used the sleeve of his white jacket to wipe the moisture from his eyes and the sweat from the rest of his face.  I was sweating, too. It could have been the heat from the television lights. Or the steamers. Or Eldon’s incompetence with the cleaver. Probably all three.  “I’m sorry, chief,” Eldon mumbled.  “Chef,” I corrected him.  “Oh, right. Chef.”  Actually, it’s Chef Billy Blessing. If you recognize the name, and I sincerely hope you do, you’ll understand that I don’t engage in a whole lot of on-the-job chef-ing these days, though I do run a popular restaurant on the Lower East Side in Manhattan, Blessing’s Bistro. (A New York magazine pick. Tops in food and service per Zagat, thank you very much.) I have a line of savory prepared meals (which you can find in the frozen-food sections of the better supermarkets). And there’s a series of cookbooks (the latest of which, Blessing’s Best: Brunches, just went into a second printing, a New York Times Bestseller). But people usually know me because I’m on TV. My own show,  Blessing’s in the Kitchen, appears on the Wine & Dine Cable Network, Thursdays at four p.m. EST, and, for reasons I’ve never understood, repeated at two a.m. on Saturdays. I guess if you come home drunk, the first thing you want to do is turn on the forty-two-inch LCD and watch me cook. And, cruc...

Product details

• Authors: Dick Lochte, Al Roker, Al/ Lochte Roker
• Publisher: Bantam Books USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 07.09.2010
• EAN: 9780440245803
• ISBN: 978-0-440-24580-3
• No. of pages: 423
• Dimensions: 114 mm x 178 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Bantam Books; Billy Blessing; Billy Blessing
• Subject: Fiction > Suspense