by Al Roker
“The other guy says he’s not sure he can help, and the creepy-voice man gets angry and tells him to make up his mind, that the … bitch can bring a guy named Oscar to help, but that would cost him almost double the amount.”
Felix and Oscar. Rudy’s “Odd Couple.” I recalled the other note he wrote for himself on his kitchen blackboard. “Jewel for Berry9.”
“Was the CD in the jewel box that was supposed to contain USS Huckleberry, disc nine?” I asked.
“Oh,” she said. “Then you already know about it. I guess it was silly of me to think it might be important.”
“It’s very important,” I said. “Can I come over now to pick it up?”
“Please,” she said. “I don’t like having it here. It’s ugly. What’s it all about, anyway?”
“In a word: karma,” I said.
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
AL ROKER is known to over thirty million viewers each week for his work on NBC’s Today show, a role that has earned him ten Emmy awards. He also has his own show on the Weather Channel, Wake Up With Al. He is a blockbuster New York Times bestselling author for his book Don’t Make Me Stop This Car!: Adventures in Fatherhood. An accomplished cook, Roker also has two cookbooks to his credit, including the bestselling Al Roker’s Big Bad Book of Barbecue. The Morning Show Murders marks his first foray into fiction. Bantam Dell will publish the second Billy Blessing mystery in 2010. Al resides 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 a list of popular crime novels including the award-winning Sleeping Dog, named one of the “100 favorite mysteries of the century” by the Independent Booksellers Association. His crime fiction column that ran for nearly a decade in the Los Angeles Times earned him the 2003 Ellen Nehr Award for Excellence in Mystery Reviewing. He lives in Southern California with his wife and son.
The Morning Show Murders is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the authors’ imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
Copyright © 2009 by Al Roker Entertainment
All rights reserved.
Published in the United States by Delacorte Press, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.
DELACORTE PRESS is a registered trademark of Random House, Inc., and the colophon is a trademark of Random House, Inc.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Roker, Al, 1954–
The morning show murders : a novel / Al Roker and Dick Lochte.
p. cm.
eISBN: 978-0-440-33903-8
1. Television personalities—Fiction. 2. Cooks—Fiction.
I. Lochte, Dick. II. Title.
PS3618.O537M67 2009
813′.6—dc22 2009029294
www.bantamdell.com
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