The Twelve Dogs of Christmas: An Andy Carpenter Mystery

David Rosenfelt

Oct 2016 · An Andy Carpenter Novel Book 15 · Sold by Minotaur Books

About this ebook

Defense lawyer Andy Carpenter usually tries to avoid taking on new cases at all costs. But this time, he’s happy—eager, even—to take the case that’s just come his way. Andy’s long-time friend Martha “Pups” Boyer takes in stray puppies that the local dog rescue center can’t handle, raises them until they’re 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 Pups’s 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 Pups’s 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 doesn’t believe Pups could be guilty, but as he starts digging deeper into the truth behind Hennessey’s 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.

Ratings and reviews

lawyers, law-enforcement, murder, murder-investigation, dogs, family-dynamics, friendship, situational-humor, snark-fest, verbal-humor, extortion, contract-killer***** 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. Andy tackles the first case with ease, but the murder trial of that same woman who is accused of three murders in less than two years is very taxing. 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 was surprised to find that it is the most recent in a series! At no time does the reader feel lost or as if missing background info. Grover Gardner narrates this complicated snarkfest very well!

SO boring!!! I really don't get obsession with this writer he's boring this is the second book I try to read I kind of forced myself to finish the first one a year ago decided to try him again now I'm at chapter 5 and he's putting me in a coma I don't care what he writes about dogs it's not funny it's not cute and it doesn't flow maybe all you people like boring drag on Mysteries but I sure don't.i will never ever try him again.as someone who works w dogs I say yuk

Love all of his books. Terrific writer

About the author

DAVID ROSENFELT is the Edgar-nominated and Shamus Award-winning author of several stand-alones and a dozen Andy Carpenter novels, including Who Let the Dog Out?. After years living in California, he and his wife moved to Maine with twenty-five golden retrievers that they’ve rescued. Rosenfelt’s hilarious account of this cross-country move, Dogtripping, is available from St. Martin’s Press.