Who Let the Dogs Out by David Rosenfelt

Book 13 of 28: An Andy Carpenter Novel

A lawyer by day and then only when he’s forced to take on new cases – Andy Carpenter’s true passion is the Tara Foundation, the dog rescue organization he runs with his friend Willie Miller. So it’s frightening when Willie calls him to say the alarm has gone off at the foundation building, and there’s clearly been a break-in. It turns out that a recently rescued dog, nicknamed Cheyenne sing her arrival at the foundation, has been stolen. Andy and Willie take the missing dog to a house in downtown Paterson, New Jersey, and sure enough, they find the dog…standing next to a dead body. The man had been gruesomely murdered mere minutes before Andy and Willie arrived. Could it be a coincidence? Or could the dog theft somehow be connected to the killing?

Andy takes Cheyenne safely back to the foundation building, and that should be the end of his involvement, but Andy’s curiosity – and his desire to keep the dog from further harm – won’t let him stop there. The cops have just arrested a man named Tommy Infante for the murder, but as Andy looks into the circumstances surrounding the break-in and the dog theft, he wonders if Infante might actually be innocent. And when Andy takes Infante on as a client and starts searching in earnest for evidence that will exonerate him, what Andy starts to discover terrifies him. The murder might be just one small cog in a plot with far-reaching implications, and unless Andy can uncover the truth in time, thousands of lives could be in imminent danger.

The 1st Reads Book Club will discuss this title on Wednesday, July 5, at 2 pm at the Macks Creek Library. The 1st Reads Book Club meets on the first Wednesday of each month at 2 pm.

Copies of this book are available from: Missouri Evergreen Card Catalog.