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 Carpenterβs 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 arenβt 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 dogβs embedded chip. They know this dog. He is the βDNA dog.β
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 havenβt been seen since. A tip came in that a former boyfriend of Hickmanβs, 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 Wachtelβs arrest was some dog hair, notable since Wachtel did not have a dog. DNA tests showed conclusively that the hair belonged to Hickmanβs 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 wifeβs desire to help a friend and fellow mother and Andyβs 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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