If there is anyone who can develop unique characters, it's Lee Goldberg. Lee's book teams an insurance investigator who has suffered a brain injury, along with an aspiring actor.
Edison Bixby, formerly a cop, is a crack investigator, whom as a result from survivor a gunshot wound to the head, cannot help putting his foot in his mouth. New sidekick Wally Nash, a struggling actor, is charged with tagging along with Bixby to make sure his utterings do not get him in trouble.
Bixby and Nash are convinced an escalator death at the mall was not an accident, but a murder, but they cannot get any help from the authorities.
The unique Lee Goldberg combination of intrigue and humor, keep this book entertaining.