S20 Ep144: Only Way Out w/ Tod Goldberg

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🗓️ 2 December 2025

⏱️ 136 minutes

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Summary

True Crime Tuesday presents Only Way Out with New York Times Best Selling Author, Tod Goldberg!

A luckless thief’s wrong turn becomes a crooked cop’s fortune in a wild ride of a thriller by a New York Times bestselling author.

Failed lawyer Robert Green has such a good plan: Crack three hundred safe-deposit boxes and sail off to South America with his brilliant, morally flexible sister, Penny. If it weren’t for the damned freezing rain.

In the dying resort town of Granite Shores, cop Jack Biddle is self-appointed king—mostly of bad decisions. Between his family’s crumbling legacy, a wife who just joined the city council, and life-threatening gambling debts, Jack’s looking for a way out. Then he spots a van spinning off a mountain road into the valley below. In the wreckage, Jack finds a very dead Robert, millions in heisted loot…and opportunity.
All Jack has to do is clean up the mess, disappear Robert’s body, make off with the fortune, and not get caught. One hitch is Penny. Another is Mitch Diamond, a wild card ex-con who knows more about the missing fortune than he lets on. Jack, Penny, and Mitch each have an endgame. But there’s only one way out, and they’re crashing headlong toward it.

We talk to Tod about his unique approach to this one off book, how he approaches writing his villains, where we might have seen the character of "Mitch Diamond" before, and some of the other juicy plot points of this amazing new book!

PLUS: AN ALL-NEW DUMB CRIMES/STUPID CRIMINALS WITH JESSICA FREEBURG!

Check out more about Tod here: http://todgoldberg.com/

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0:00.0	Welcome into the best in True Crime Podcasting. This is True Crime Tuesday. I'm your host, Tim Dennis. I'm going to use some sports analogies real quick for you, folks. You've got living legends out there. In football, you've got Mahomes. In baseball, you've got Otani. And basketball, you've got LeBron. In crime fiction, you've got Goldberg. Just one word. And ladies and gentlemen, we've got them today. Todd Goldberg's with us again today, folks. And I am pleased and honored to say that we have them today. This is the new book right here. It's called Only Way Out. And boy, is it a good one. Boy, is it a good one. Let me tell you a little bit about him first, and then we'll be on our way. Todd Goldberg is the New York Times best-selling author of 16, count of 16 novels, including the Gangster Land Quartet, Gangster Land, a finalist for the Hammett Prize, Gangster Nation, The Low Desert, A Southwest Book of the Year,
1:14.1	and Gangsters Don't. Gangsterland Quartet. Gangsterland, a finalist for the Hammett Prize, Gangster Nation,
1:11.6	the Low Desert, a Southwest Book of the Year, and Gangsters Don't Die, an Amazon best
1:16.7	book of 2023 and a Southwest Book of the Year. Other works include The House of Secrets,
1:21.7	which he co-authored with Brad Meltzer, Living Dead Girl, a finalist for the Los Angeles
1:26.4	Times Book Prize, and of course,
1:28.7	you know him from the Burn Notice series.
1:31.5	His short fiction and essays have been anthologized in Best American Mystery and Suspense
1:38.9	and Best American Essays and appear regularly in the Los Angeles Times, USA Today, and Alta.
1:45.8	Todd is a professor of creative writing at the University of California, Riverside, where he
1:49.9	founded and directs the low residency MFA program in creative writing and writing for the
1:55.4	performing arts.
1:56.5	Ladies and gentlemen, let's welcome back to True Crime Tuesday.
1:59.3	Todd Goldberg, sir, how you doing?
2:01.6	I am doing fantastic after hearing my bio.
2:03.9	I am pretty impressed.
2:05.8	Boy, you're impressed.
2:08.0	I'm impressed.
2:10.1	Boy, I must get up very early to get all the video games in also.
2:13.9	That's right.
2:14.9	What do you play in these days?
2:17.4	Well, as a frumpy middle-aged man, which I think you can, the viewers will see, at least,
	...

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