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Title details for The Morning Show Murders by Al Roker - Available

The Morning Show Murders

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by Al Roker
Dick Lochte
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Nobody can dish morning TV like Al Roker, who’s seen every side of a business that looks good on camera—even when sharks are circling inside the gleaming glass Manhattan media headquarters. Treachery abounds in Roker’s riotously thrilling debut novel—at once an ingenious murder mystery and a delicious behind-the-scenes look at network TV. As fact and fiction collide and the backbiting ignites, The Morning Show Murders will make you wonder: How much of this stuff is real?

Network TV can be murder. Just ask Billy Blessing, famous for his smile, charm, and ability to survive the shark tank that is high-stakes morning TV. But though Billy has outlived his fair share of prima-donnas, his cooking segment on Wake Up America! is a staple of the American diet, and his Manhattan bistro is a mega-success, his career has just taken a very dangerous turn: His show’s perky cohost, Gin McCauley, has launched into some brass-knuckles contract negotiations. A visiting Mossad agent is about to tell all on the air. And then the network’s head honcho is murdered in his luxury apartment, and an ambitious D.A. decides that Billy is to blame.
Forensics show that Gerry Gallagher was poisoned and that the fatal coq au vin came from Billy’s restaurant. Gerry had an impressive list of women in his black book—and a news assignment in Afghanistan had plunged the TV exec into the heart of a violent international secret. Now unsavory characters are coming out of the woodwork, and another murder strikes the show’s inner circle. Billy knows that someone’s trying to frame him. He also knows that a ruthless international assassin has just arrived in New York City. And suddenly, for the most trusted guy on TV the ultimate career move is not about ratings. It’s about staying alive—and stopping the next murder from becoming tomorrow’s breaking news.
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  • Creators

  • Series

    Billy Blessing

  • Publisher

  • Release date

    November 24, 2009

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781415967409
      • File size: 268272 KB
      • Duration: 09:18:53

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      September 21, 2009
      Roker (Al Roker's Big Bad Book of Barbecue
      ) teams with Lochte (Sleeping Dog
      ) on a solid, exciting crime novel that revolves around a fictional TV program much like NBC's The Today Show
      . Billy Blessing, a New York City celebrity chef who owns a restaurant and does a variety of segments on Wake Up, America!
      , has just begun filming a reality food show when he becomes a suspect in a murder case after Rudy Gallagher, Blessing's executive producer on the show with whom he has clashed, dies after eating some poisoned coq au vin from Blessing's restaurant. When the Manhattan DA shut downs the restaurant and Gallagher's replacement suspends him from his main television gig, Blessing turns sleuth. The gold standard for investigating network TV skullduggery is still the late William DeAndrea's Matt Cobb series (Killed in the Ratings
      , etc.), but snappy prose and well-developed characters will leave readers wanting to see more of Blessing.

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Popular NBC television personality Al Roker is the coauthor and narrator of this fast-paced murder mystery. Roker portrays a character much like himself--a charming morning show cohost named Billy Blessing. Billy is a celebrity chef, as well as a news commentator, and he owns a famous New York restaurant. Listeners are inundated with the names of television executives, media personalities, restaurant personnel, and endless friends and associates, making it difficult to remember who's who. Roker is a vivacious narrator who keeps the action moving. Billy is accused of poisoning his executive producer with his signature coq au vin. The plot is well constructed and fun. Roker is obviously at home in this frenetic world of television, and his characterizations ring true. D.L.G. © AudioFile 2024, Portland, Maine

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