Andy Carpenter #16
Minotaur Books
July 2017
On Sale: July 18, 2017
Featuring: Andy Carpenter
336 pages ISBN: 1250055350 EAN: 9781250055354 Kindle: B01N9K59GR Hardcover / e-Book Add to Wish List
Lawyer Andy Carpenterโs true passion is the Tara Foundation, the dog rescue organization he runs with his friend Willie Miller. All kinds of dogs make their way to the foundation, and Andy and Willie arenโt surprised to find a dog at the shelter one morning with a note saying someone had found him stray and dropped him off. But they are surprised when they scan the dogโs embedded chip. They know this dog. He is the โDNA dog.โ
Two and a half years ago, Jill Hickman was a single mother of an adopted baby. Her baby and dog were kidnapped in broad daylight in Eastside Park, and they havenโt been seen since. A tip came in that a former boyfriend of Hickmanโs, Keith Wachtel, was the kidnapper. A search of his house showed no sign of the child, but did uncover more incriminating evidence, and the clincher that generated Wachtelโs arrest was some dog hair, notable since Wachtel did not have a dog. DNA tests showed conclusively that the hair belonged to Hickmanโs dog. Wachtel was convicted of kidnapping, but the dog and baby were never found.
Now, with the reappearance of the dog, the case is brought back to light, and the search for the child renewed. Goaded by his wifeโs desire to help a friend and fellow mother and Andyโs desire to make sure the real kidnapper is in jail, Andy and his team enter the case. But what they start to uncover is far more complicated and dangerous than they ever expected.
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