Another good Andy Carpenter story. It's enjoyable seeing how Andy builds his client's defense, against incredible odds.
Excellent from beginning to end. Involving mystery and fascinating court trial - the view from the defense attorney's side. A real winner!
All the usual suspects (um, secondary characters) are in evidence in this 9th Andy Carpenter caper. Andy also has a delicious interlude with a couple of Mafia-types. Marcus Clark, Andy's scary investigator who seems to look like a refrigerator (and capable of emptying a refrigerator in a single sitting) gets a bit more screen-time on his trip with Andy to Las Vegas.
All the characters are interesting and Andy spins a great yarn. Tara, Andy's golden retriever, gets a roommate, Bailey, a mastiff, that Andy likens to a small horse. In this book, we learn Tara's backstory (you didn't know pets had a backstory, did you?).
Noah Galloway is accused of killing 26 of the 27 individuals in an apartment building and setting it on fire with napalm. The fire happened 6 years earlier, but the heinousness of the killings has kept it at the forefront of the public's imagination. Someone comes forward and tells that Noah told him about the fire in great detail. After the police and FBI get his information down and signed, the squealer turns up dead.
To complicate the plot, Noah doesn't remember the fire but believes he must have done it and wants to confess so he can be punished. Now, Andy avoids work at all times, but he has a client who just wants to take the prison-without-parole-option and Andy has to talk him out of it. The courtroom drama has all the humor and antics readers have come to expect from our hero. Another winner by David Rosenfelt.
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1. Open and Shut (2002)
2. First Degree (2003)
3. Bury the Lead (2004)
4. Sudden Death (2005)
5. Dead Center (2006)
6. Play Dead (2007)
7. New Tricks (2009)
8. Dog Tags (2010)
** 9. One Dog Night (2011)
The Andy Carpenter series is one of my favorites and the books are hard to get for some reason.
always well written the story always has some humor in it, the characters are very likable and the stories are always very good.
