St. Martin's Paperbacks
October 2018
On Sale: September 25, 2018
272 pages ISBN: 1250190002 EAN: 9781250190000 Kindle: B01DJ18YEU Mass Market Paperback / e-Book (reprint) Add to Wish List
Defense lawyer Andy Carpenter usually tries to avoid taking on new cases at all costs. But this time, heβs happyβeager, evenβto take the case thatβs just come his way. Andyβs long-time friend Martha βPupsβ Boyer takes in stray puppies that the local dog rescue center canβt handle, raises them until theyβre old enough to adopt, and then finds good homes for them. Not everyone admires the work Pups does as much as Andy does, however. With Christmas just around the corner, one of Pupsβs neighbors has just reported Pups to the city for having more than the legal number of pets in her home under the local zoning laws.
Andy happily takes Pupsβs case, and he feels confident in a positive outcome. Who could punish someone for rescuing puppies, after all, especially at Christmastime? But things get a lot more complicated when Randy Hennessey, the neighbor who registered the complaint against Pups, turns up dead. Pups had loudly and publicly threatened Hennessey after he filed his complaint, and Pups was also the one to find his body. All the evidence seems to point to Pups as the killer, and suddenly Andy has a murder case on his hands. He doesnβt believe Pups could be guilty, but as he starts digging deeper into the truth behind Hennesseyβs murder, Andy may find himself facing a killer more dangerous than he ever imagined.
With his trademark wit, larger-than-life characters, and clever plotting, David Rosenfelt delivers another gripping mystery.
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