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    One Dog Night
    One Dog Night
    One Dog Night
    Audiobook8 hours

    One Dog Night

    Written by David Rosenfelt

    Narrated by Grover Gardner

    4.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    For six years Noah Galloway has lived with a horrible secret and the fear that his rebuilt life could be shattered at any moment. Now his dread has become a certainty, and he has been arrested for the arson murder of twenty-six people. What he needs now is defense lawyer Andy Carpenter, who most definitely is not in the market for a new client. So Noah plays his hole card: a shared love for Andy’s golden retriever, Tara, and the knowledge of what her life was like before Andy rescued her. Because Andy wasn’t her first owner—Noah rescued Tara first, and when he wasn’t able to care for her any longer, he did everything in his power to make sure that she was placed in the right home: Andy’s. With that knowledge, Andy has little choice but to take Noah on, and he soon learns that the long-ago event that may destroy Noah’s life is only the beginning of an ongoing conspiracy that grows more deadly by the day. Andy will have to pull out all of his tricks to get to the bottom of this cold case turned white hot in the latest in David Rosenfelt’s popular mystery series.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherListen & Live Audio
    Release dateJan 1, 2011
    ISBN9781593165987
    One Dog Night
    Author

    David Rosenfelt

    DAVID ROSENFELT is the Edgar-nominated and Shamus Award-winning author of more than twenty Andy Carpenter novels, including One Dog Night, Collared, and Deck the Hounds; its spinoff series, The K-Team; the Doug Brock thriller series, which starts with Fade to Black; and stand-alone thrillers including Heart of a Killer and On Borrowed Time. Rosenfelt and his wife live in Maine with an ever-changing pack of rescue dogs. Their epic cross-country move with 25 of these dogs, culminating in the creation of the Tara Foundation, is chronicled in Dogtripping.

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    • 5/5
      law-enforcement, lawyers, conspiracy, framed, murder, murder-investigation, family-dynamics, friendship, dogs, contract-killer, situational-humor, snark-fest, verbal-humor, ex-cop, greed*****Take a wisemouthed lawyer who can afford to take semi retirement by only representing innocent clients while supporting an animal shelter, add in that his wife is no longer law enforcement but works as his private investigator and more and you have the baseline for this convoluted mystery. There are many other people who help Andy find out what the truth really is and make it courtroom admissible. This one is kind of scary in the *it is uncomfortably possible* sense. No spoilers, and the snarkfest keeps it from being too realistic. Lots of twists and turns in the plot and the characters certainly are, but there's no need for spoilers or an attempt at a summary. I found it to be a real brain grabber and it is one in a series of interesting and well written mysteries. At no time does the reader feel lost or as if missing background info.Grover Gardner narrates this complicated snarkfest very well!
    • 4/5
      An interesting story but this book has the same theme as a number of the earlier books by this author: the defendant was framed. Also, in several of the books, a catastrophe was averted by the process of finding the true guilty party. It's still a good read but the author needs to find some new plots.
    • 5/5
      I enjoyed this book very much. I have not read many mysteries, so I have no idea how this compares to others in the genre, but from my limited experience, I think it would hold its own. The style is unlike what I've seen before: most chapters are told in the first-person by the lawyer who is solving the case, but the rest of the chapters--almost half--are in third person, showing the reader different events that certain characters may or may not know. In this way, the different pieces of the mystery fall into place gradually, throughout the book, rather than during an unveiling at the end. The two different voices used to tell the story cause the reader's experience of the mystery (and even the very understanding of the case) to differ slightly from the experiences of the characters who work to uncover it. Moreover, the very first chapter, told in third-person, immediately establishes the novel's suspense, which doesn't let up during the book. In addition, the main characters are engaging and fun, and the lawyer's tone during the first-person portions made me laugh out loud in several places. Finally, as the title might suggest, this novel features a very lovable dog who, in this case, forms the connection between the lawyer and the client. The dog is a main character, too, but this book is still great for dog-lovers and non-dog-lovers (if there even is such a thing!) alike. I received this book for free from Goodreads firstreads giveaway.
    • 3/5
      Entertaining in a "Dog Book" "Mystery Book" sort of way.

      The author does need a geograpy lesson.
    • 4/5
      I just love this series. Rosenfelt is able to inject humor into his stories without making the plot or the characters silly, which few mystery authors seem capable of. In this book Defense Attorney Andy Carpenter once again reluctantly decides to take on a case. Noah Galloway, a recovered drug addict, is accused of setting fire to the apartment building where his supplier lived when they cut him off. The chains placed around the doors ensured that 26 people who lived in the building died a horrible death. Noah is in fact sure he set the fire, and is ready to face the consequences. Until Andy realizes the evidence just doesn’t add up, and Noah may be innocent after all.

      This was an extremely complicated mystery, with lots of smaller characters. It made it a little difficult to follow at times. The mystery and eventual reveal were complex but in the end made sense and was very well plotted out. After several books where dogs were the main focus of Rosenfelt’s books, I was happy to finally see a human client again. I always enjoy books from this series and this one was no exception. I especially recommend this series to dog lovers.
    • 5/5
      Lawyer Andy Carpenter has two great loves in his life – one is his girlfriend and the other is his dog, Tara. And most of the time, Tara comes in first. In this story, Andy sets out to defend and possibly save Tara’s former owner. Noah has been charged with arson and murder, and he confesses that he is guilty. But Noah was so strung out on drugs, he doesn’t remember setting the blaze, though with the evidence the police have, he believes must have killed all those people. Now clean and sober, Noah has turned his life around and wants to pay for his crimes. However, the more Andy digs into the case, the more he doubts Noah’s guilt. With doggedness determination, Andy wants to believe in Noah’s innocence. As more people turn up dead, Andy knows someone very sinister has to planning something very deadly. A very intricate plot strewn with clues and details will keep you guessing until the end.
    • 5/5
      love, love, love this series; makes me laugh, keeps my interest, good mysteries, and likeable characters
    • 3/5
      Reluctant lawyer Andy Carpenter keeps trying to avoid work. But somehow it just keeps finding him, this time in the person of Noah Galloway. Noah has been an upstanding member of society for the past several years, but the past has a way of catching up with everyone. He is not surprised when one day a knock on the door finds him arrested for the murder by arson of 26 people. Andy tries to avoid taking the case, but Noah has some information Andy wants. As it turns out, Noah was the first owner of Tara, Andy’s much loved Golden Retriever. Andy wants to know why she ended up at the pound.
      This was another good romp with Andy and his sidekicks. As with most “series” books I have become very acquainted with the formula, but Mr. Rosenfelt writes such bitingly sarcastic dialogue for his characters it makes it worthwhile. And admittedly, there is always enough of a plot twist to keep it interesting, if not always fresh.
    • 2/5
      In most ways, this was as good as the rest of the books, but gets one less star because I can't figure out why the bad guys spent so much time & effort obtaining the company & why they blew it at the end. They had no control over it the entire time they did all the work, so why did they need to control it when they were pulling out? Why not just leave it in the same hands? Did I miss a part where the company was going to start actually using that land?

      Why the HUGE explosion at the end? Burying folks that far down shouldn't have required so much explosive as to draw notice or was that a mistake? Didn't read like it. Seemed to be what the guy wanted.

      Maybe these were explained & I missed it. If so, someone please tell me & I'll change this review. Otherwise it was good & a fun way for Andy to get sucked into working again. Well read, as usual.
    • 4/5
      Andy Carpenter is a happy curmudgeon. Wealthy enough not to work, he only takes a legal case when he feels compelled to do so. In this case, the defendant is responsible for Andy finding the love of his life - his dog, Tara. Noah, a former drug user, is accused of setting a devastating fatal fire 6 years ago. Noah remembers nothing of the incident, given his drug-induced state, but Andy quickly begins to suspect that Noah is innocent and sets out, with the help of his friends, to prove he's been set up. Rosenfelt keeps the plot ticking along, dropping pieces of a puzzle that Andy & Co. eventually put together. Andy is an appealing character, both lovable and sarcastic. Even his bad moods are funny. Unlike dog mysteries, Rosenfelt's dog doesn't help solve the crime but merely helps Andy relax and think on their leisurely walks together.
    • 4/5
      Another page-turner murder mystery with a sense of humor and good suspense. Defense lawyer Andy Carpenter is tackling another lost cause defense for someone who has confessed to killing 26 people by locking them in a burning building. Of course, he accomplishes the impossible and justice prevails.
    • 3/5
      Another terrific addition to the Andy Carpenter series. My only minor gripe is that the dogs were only minimally involved.