Lee Goldberg

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  • Bibliography:
    55 Books (6 Series)
  • First Book:
    March 1995
  • Latest Book:
    October 2025
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Full Series List in Order

Charlie Willis

1 - My Gun Has Bullets (Mar-1995)
2 - Beyond the Beyond // Dead Space (Mar-1997)

Diagnosis Murder

1 - The Silent Partner (Sep-2003)
2 - The Death Merchant (Feb-2004)
3 - The Shooting Script (Aug-2004)
4 - The Waking Nightmare (Mar-2005)
5 - The Past Tense (Aug-2005)
6 - The Dead Letter (Mar-2006)
7 - The Double Life (Nov-2006)
8 - The Last Word (May-2007)

Eve Ronin

1 - Lost Hills (Jan-2020)
2 - Bone Canyon (Jan-2021)
3 - Gated Prey (Nov-2021)
4 - Movieland (Jun-2022)
5 - Dream Town (Jan-2024)
6 - Fallen Star (Oct-2025)

Ian Ludlow Thrillers

1 - True Fiction (Mar-2018)
2 - Killer Thriller (Feb-2019)
3 - Fake Truth (Apr-2020)

The Jury

1 - Judgment (Apr-2011)
2 - Adjourned (Aug-2009)
3 - Payback (Apr-2011)
4 - Guilty (Apr-2011)

Sharpe & Walker

1 - Malibu Burning (Sep-2023)
2 - Ashes Never Lie (Sep-2024)
3 - Hidden in Smoke (Apr-2025)

Multi-Author Series List

Mr. Monk

1 - Mr. Monk Goes to the Fire House (Jan-2006)
2 - Mr. Monk Goes to Hawaii (Jul-2006)
3 - Mr. Monk and The Blue Flu (Jan-2007)
4 - Mr. Monk and The Two Assistants (Jul-2007)
5 - Mr. Monk in Outer Space (Dec-2007)
6 - Mr. Monk Goes to Germany (Jul-2008)
7 - Mr. Monk is Miserable (Dec-2008)
8 - Mr. Monk and the Dirty Cop (Jul-2009)
9 - Mr. Monk in Trouble (Dec-2009)
10 - Mr. Monk Is Cleaned Out (Jul-2010)
11 - Mr. Monk on the Road (Jan-2011)
12 - Mr. Monk on the Couch (Jun-2011)
13 - Mr. Monk on Patrol (Jan-2012)
14 - Mr. Monk Is a Mess (Jun-2012)
15 - Mr. Monk Gets Even (Jan-2013)

Book List in Order: 55 titles

  • My Gun Has Bullets

    Charlie Willis - 1

    When Officer Charlie Wills, as the result of a hilariously unlikely series of mishaps, becomes the star of his own television series, he does not suspect the riotous mayhem that will follow, as the mob, a rabid star-dog, and others get in the act....

  • Beyond the Beyond // Dead Space

    Charlie Willis - 2

    Ex-cop Charlie Willis is assigned to a security detail for Pinnacle Pictures and finds himself dealing with an agent who eats human flesh, an assassin with a love for power drills, and a well-endowed actress who kills with her breasts...

  • The Silent Partner

    Diagnosis Murder - 1

    Dr. Mark Sloan, Community General Hospital's Chief of Internal Medicine, has been appointed by the LAPD to a special task force assigned to the cold case files--unsolved homicides long since abandoned by the police. One case concerns the murder of a ...

  • The Walk

    It's one minute after the Big One. Marty Slack, a TV network executive, crawls out from under his Mercedes, parked outside what once was a downtown Los Angeles warehouse, the location for a new TV show. Downtown LA is in ruins. The sky is thick with ...

  • The Death Merchant

    Diagnosis Murder - 2

    Dr. Mark Sloan and his son, Steve, are getting some sun and surf on the Hawaiian island of Kauai. But their vacation is interrupted when a local restaurant owner falls victim to a shark attack. Rather than return home, father and son elect to hang ar...

  • The Shooting Script

    Diagnosis Murder - 3

    Dr. Mark Sloan is drawn to the sounds of gunfire at his neighbor's Malibu beach house. There, he discovers the bullet-riddled bodies of an aspiring actress and a Hollywood producer. An obvious suspect is the producer's wife-who has gunpowder residue ...

  • The Waking Nightmare

    Diagnosis Murder - 4

    Dr. Mark Sloan's day at the office takes a turn for the worse when he looks out the window and sees a woman jump from the ledge of a building. Miraculously he is able to save her life, but she remains in a coma. Tormented by nightmares about the even...

  • The Past Tense

    Diagnosis Murder - 5

    Dr. Mark Sloan is startled to discover a dead woman--dressed as a mermaid--washed up on the beach outside his home. Even more bizarre, the autopsy reveals a digital memory card within a capsule inside the body's stomach. The card contains the repor...

  • The Man With the Iron-on Badge

    "As dark and twisted as anything Hammett or Chandler ever dreamed up...." Kirkus, Starred Review

    "Approaching the level of Lawrence Block is no mean feat, but Goldberg succeeds with this engaging PI novel." Publishers Weekly

    Harvey Mape...



  • Mr. Monk Goes to the Fire House

    Mr. Monk - 1

    Obsessive. Compulsive. Detective. First in the all-new series of original mysteries starring Adrian Monk, the brilliant investigator who always knows when something's out of place... Monk's house is being fumigated, and he has nowhere to go. Fo...

  • The Dead Letter

    Diagnosis Murder - 6

    When Dr. Mark Sloan receives a package containing files, audiotapes, and videos from infamous P.I. Nick Stryker after his death, Mark has evidence that could put away some of the most powerful people in Los Angeles and must discover which one of them...

  • Mr. Monk Goes to Hawaii

    Mr. Monk - 2

    OBSESSIVE. COMPULSIVE. DETECTIVE. Welcome to the all-new series of original mysteries starring Adrian Monk, the brilliant investigator who always knows when something's out of place.... Some people think Hawaii is paradise. But Monk knows that ...

  • The Double Life

    Diagnosis Murder - 7

    When Dr. Mark Sloan wakes up in his own hospital's ICU after three days of unconsciousness, he doesn't remember how he got there. But what really shocks him is that he can't remember anything from the last two years of his life -- including a wife he...

  • Mr. Monk and The Blue Flu

    Mr. Monk - 3

    OBSESSIVE. COMPULSIVE. DETECTIVE. Welcome to the series of all-new original mysteries starring Adrian Monk, the brilliant investigator who always knows when something's out of place.... Monk is horrified when he learns there's going to be a blu...

  • The Last Word

    Diagnosis Murder - 8

    It begins tragically when a young woman falls down a flight of stairs and is left brain-dead. Her family agrees to donate her organs, and Dr. Jesse Travis oversees the grim task, saving several other seriously ill patients. But one of the organ recip...

  • Mr. Monk and The Two Assistants

    Mr. Monk - 4

    THE REAL OCD Welcome to the series of all-new original mysteries starring Adrian Monk, the brilliant investigator who always knows when something's out of place.... Only a special kind of person can keep up with Monk's brilliant. if idiosyncrat...

  • Mr. Monk in Outer Space

    Mr. Monk - 5

    THE REAL OCD Welcome to the series of all-new original mysteries starring Adrian Monk, the brilliant investigator who always knows when something's out of place.... At a convention for the cult science fiction show Beyond Earth. Adrian Monk mee...

  • Mr. Monk Goes to Germany

    Mr. Monk - 6

    Adrian Monk is on a roll -- solving murders as fast as they come, and not counting his Wheat Chex until they're in the bowl. But when his therapist leaves for a conference in Germany, Monk can't tie his shoes, forgets how to swallow, and loses track ...

  • Mr. Monk is Miserable

    Mr. Monk - 7

    Welcome to the all-new series of original mysteries starring Adrian Monk, the brilliant investigator who always knows when something's out of place.... Monk reluctantly agrees to accompany his long-suffering assistant, Natalie, to France, and then s...



  • Mr. Monk and the Dirty Cop

    Mr. Monk - 8

    THE REAL OCD Welcome to the all-new series of original mysteries starring Adrian Monk, the brilliant investigator who always knows when something's out of place.... Captain Leland Stottlemeyer relies on Monk to solve his most baffling cases -- so mo...

  • Adjourned

    The Jury - 2

    From #1 New York Times bestselling author Lee Goldberg comes the second thrilling book in action-packed JURY SERIES, the novels that launched his career in the 1980s. After a family tragedy, Brett Macklin has sworn to take the law into his own hands ...

  • Guilt

    This is an ALL-NEW edition, completely revised and reformatted for 2011...From LEE GOLDBERG, bestselling author of THE WALK and the MONK mysteries, comes the final, pulse-pounding book in the bloody, action-packed JURY SERIES.Brett Macklin faces his ...

  • Mr. Monk in Trouble

    Mr. Monk - 9

    Welcome to the series of original mysteries starring Adrian Monk, the brilliant investigator who always knows when something's out of place.... Ever since a 1962 unsolved train robbery made it famous, people have flocked to the town of Trouble in Ca...

  • Mr. Monk Is Cleaned Out

    Mr. Monk - 10

    Welcome to the series of original mysteries starring Adrian Monk, the brilliant investigator who always knows when something's out of place.... The state of California is in a deep financial crisis, and so is Adrian Monk. The SFPD is forced to fire ...

  • Tied In

    Tie-in novels are books based on pre-existing media properties -- like TV shows, movies and games -- and they regularly top the national bestseller lists. But as popular as tie-ins books and novelizations are among readers, few people know how the bo...

  • Mr. Monk on the Road

    Mr. Monk - 11

    Monk's out on the open highway-but crime is a hitchhiker that won't be ignored. With his job secure and his wife's murder finally solved, Adrian Monk is feeling strangely...satisfied. He'd like his agoraphobic brother Ambrose to feel the same way,...

  • Three Ways to Die

    "Lee Goldberg's Jack Webb's Star is a riotous caper crime with a nasty twist..." --The Los Angeles Times This collection gathers together three acclaimed short stories ---"Jack Webb's Star," "Remaindered," and "Bumsickle" -- by Edgar-nominated write...

  • Double Header

    Now, for the first time anywhere, both of Lee Goldberg's widely acclaimed "Charlie Willis" crime novels -- MY GUN HAS BULLETS and DEAD SPACE -- are combined together, complete and uncut, in one incredibly low-priced ebook.MY GUN HAS BULLETSWhen Bever...

  • Guilty

    The Jury - 4

    From #1 New York Times bestselling author Lee Goldberg comes the final, pulse-pounding book in the bloody, action-packed JURY SERIES, the novels that launched his career in the 1980s. Brett Macklin faces his greatest adversary yet--a ruthless, profe...



  • Judgment

    The Jury - 1

    JUDGMENT is the classic action/adventure novel that was a runaway paperback sensation in the 1980s...and that skyrocked the career of Lee Goldberg, the #1 New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Publishers Weekly bestselling author of True Fiction, ...

  • Payback

    The Jury - 3

    From #1 New York Times bestselling author LEE GOLDBERG, author of THE WALK and the MONK mysteries.... and co-author of the Fox & O'Hare novels with Janet Evanovich... comes the third, kick-ass book in the action-packed JURY SERIES, the novels that la...

  • Mr. Monk on the Couch

    Mr. Monk - 12

    Three strangers, each a murder victim: a security guard, a struggling student, and a beautiful woman. They have something more in common than death and Monk can't believe what it is-a couch. Before you find out why, you'd better sit down....

  • Remaindered

    From #1 New York Times bestselling author Lee GoldbergKevin Dangler is a once-famous author desperate to regain his lost glory while traveling the back-roads of middle America, selling remaindered, fifth-editions of his first book o...

  • Watch Me Die

    #1 New York Times Bestselling author
    "As dark and twisted as anything Hammett or Chandler ever dreamed up" Kirkus, Starred Review
    Harvey Mapes is a 26-year-old security guard who learned everything he knows about being a private eye from boo...

  • Mr. Monk on Patrol

    Mr. Monk - 13

    When the local government of Summit, New Jersey, is hit with a string of arrests, Chief of Police Randy Disher finds himself acting as mayor. With a town to run and a series of robberies to investigate, he calls on Adrian Monk to serve as a temporary...

  • Double Impact

    DOUBLE IMPACT brings together two of Lee Goldberg's most exciting, funny, and acclaimed adventures -- WATCH ME DIE and McGRAVE -- for the first time in one bargain-priced volume.WATCH ME DIE "As dark and twisted as anything Hammett or Chandler ever d...

  • McGrave

    #1 New York Times Bestselling Author
    Los Angeles cop John "Tidal Wave" McGrave is an unstoppable force of nature who always gets his man...even if it means laying waste to everything around him, including his own career...which is exactly what ha...

  • King City

    Major Crimes Unit detective Tom Wade secretly worked with the Feds to nail seven of his fellow cops for corruption…turning him into a pariah in the police department. So he’s exiled to patrol a beat in King City’s deadliest neighborhood… with...

  • Mr. Monk Is a Mess

    Mr. Monk - 14

    Obsessive. Compulsive. Detective. An all-new original mystery starring Adrian Monk, the brilliant investigator who always knows when something's out of place.... No one likes to come home to a mess--least of all Monk and Natalie. But when they re...



  • Mr. Monk Gets Even

    Mr. Monk - 15

    An all-new original mystery starring Adrian Monk, the brilliant investigator who always knows when something’s out of place.... It may be a foggy San Francisco summer, but for Adrian Monk the future is looking bright. Natalie is off working as a...

  • Fast Track

    Speed.It’s exhilaration. It’s freedom. It’s risk. It’s escape. It’s sex.And it’s money… fast money, quickly won and quickly lost.But for four young urban street racers in L.A., speed is something else entirely.It’s a way of life… an...

  • True Fiction

    Ian Ludlow Thrillers - 1

    #1 New York Times and Amazon Charts bestselling author Lee Goldberg hits the ground running in a breakneck thriller where truth and fiction collide for the unluckiest writer alive. When a passenger jet crashes onto the beaches of Waikiki, bestsell...

  • Killer Thriller

    Ian Ludlow Thrillers - 2

    In #1 New York Times bestselling author Lee Goldberg’s action-packed sequel to the Washington Post bestseller True Fiction, a hapless writer is pitted against an enemy nation mounting a treacherous plot lifted from one of his thrillers. Everybod...

  • Lost Hills

    Eve Ronin - 1

    A video of Deputy Eve Ronin’s off-duty arrest of an abusive movie star goes viral, turning her into a popular hero at a time when the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department is plagued by scandal. The sheriff, desperate for more positive press, m...

  • Fake Truth

    Ian Ludlow Thrillers - 3

    The only thing more dangerous than fake news is fake truth in this exhilarating thriller by #1 New York Times bestselling author Lee Goldberg. Author Ian Ludlow writes great adventures…but after helping Chinese movie star Wang Mei defect to the ...

  • Bone Canyon

    Eve Ronin - 2

    A cold case heats up, revealing a deadly conspiracy in a twisty thriller by #1 New York Times bestselling author Lee Goldberg. A catastrophic wildfire scorches the Santa Monica Mountains, exposing the charred remains of a woman who disappeared yea...

  • Gated Prey

    Eve Ronin - 3

    A simple sting operation takes a violent and unexpected turn for Detective Eve Ronin in a gripping thriller by #1 New York Times bestselling author Lee Goldberg. Los Angeles County Sheriff’s detective Eve Ronin and her soon-to-retire partner, Du...

  • Movieland

    Eve Ronin - 4

    Malibu Creek State Park is a beautiful locale for campers, tourists, hikers, and Hollywood. For Detective Eve Ronin, it’s a backdrop for murder in a riveting thriller by #1 New York Times bestselling author Lee Goldberg. For decades Malibu Creek...

  • Malibu Burning

    Sharpe & Walker - 1

    For a professional criminal and a relentless arson investigator, fear and revenge spread like wildfire in an incendiary thriller by #1 New York Times bestselling author Lee Goldberg. Hell comes to Southern California every October. It rides in on ...



  • Crown Vic

    From Lee Goldberg, #1 New York Timesbestselling author, comes the darkest, most hard-boiled work of his career...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 ...

  • Calico

    From #1 New York Times bestselling author Lee Goldberg, comes an explosive, page-turning investigative thriller - with a mind-blowing twist. There's a saying in Barstow, California, a decaying city in the scorching Mojave desert . . . The I...

  • Dream Town

    Eve Ronin - 5

    A gated dream town for the megarich becomes a murderous nightmare in a riveting Eve Ronin thriller by #1 New York Times bestselling author Lee Goldberg. Hidden Hills is a private celebrity enclave of white picket fences and horse trails that seem...

  • Ashes Never Lie

    Sharpe & Walker - 2

    The secrets hidden in smoldering ashes hold the fate of a city in an explosive thriller by #1 New York Times bestselling author Lee Goldberg. Vacant homes in a new housing development are erupting into flames in broad daylight with no apparent cau...

  • Hidden in Smoke

    Sharpe & Walker - 3

    When the crimes of a serial arsonist lead to murder, Sharpe and Walker need detective Eve Ronin to join the hunt in a blistering thriller by #1 New York Times bestselling author Lee Goldberg.After dozens of Hollywood apartment buildings erupt in flam...

  • Fallen Star

    Eve Ronin - 6

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Lee Goldberg has published 55 books.

The next book by Lee Goldberg, Fallen Star, will be published in October 2025.

The first book by Lee Goldberg, My Gun Has Bullets, was published in March 1995.

Yes. Lee Goldberg has 6 series.
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