"Grover Gardner's narration of Rosenfelt's whodunits is what good audiobooks are all about, and this newest performance is a prime example. Gardner's delightful portrayal of defense lawyer Andy Carpenter continues to be fresh, allowing listeners to glimpse Andy's soft heart and humor, despite his often cynical view of the world." — AudioFile Magazine on Outfoxed "Gardner's breezy, slightly sarcastic delivery is just what's needed for Rosenfelt's breezy, slightly sarcastic mysteries featuring multimillionaire New Jersey lawyer Andy Carpenter." — Publishers Weekly on Play Dead Defense lawyer Andy Carpenter spends as much time as he can working on his true passion, the Tara Foundation, the dog rescue organization he runs. Lately, Andy has been especially involved in a county prison program where inmates help train dogs the Tara Foundation has rescued to make them more adoptable, benefiting both the dogs and the prisoners. One of the prisoners Andy has been working with is Brian Atkins, who has 18 months left on a 5-year term for fraud. Brian has been helping to train Boomer, an adorable fox terrier the Tara Foundation rescued from a neglectful owner. Brian and Boomer are clearly a terrific match. In fact, Andy hopes that Brian will adopt Boomer himself, once his sentence is up. But one day, Andy arrives at the prison to discover that Brian has used Boomer to make an ingenious escape, and man and dog are both in the wind. The next day, the man on whose testimony Brian was convicted is found murdered. Brian is caught and arrested for the crime, though he forcefully protests his innocence. Suddenly, Andy finds himself with a new client in Brian and a new dog in Boomer. And as he starts to dig deeper into the murder and the events leading up to it, Andy realizes he might be putting them all in far more danger than anyone had realized.
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“Grover Gardner’s narration of Rosenfelt’s whodunits is what good audiobooks are all about, and this newest performance is a prime example. Gardner’s delightful portrayal of defense lawyer Andy Carpenter continues to be fresh, allowing listeners to glimpse Andy’s soft heart and quick humor, despite his often cynical view of the world. Of course, Andy’s biggest soft spot is canine: his treasured sidekick, Tara, and the dogs his foundation helps to rescue. Andy’s new program enables incarcerated prisoners to train rescue dogs. When one of the prisoners employs a dog to help him escape and then the man’s accuser turns up murdered, Andy is convinced that both man and dog must be innocent.”
— AudioFile
“Rosenfelt’s entertaining forteenth legal thriller featur[es] New Jersey attorney and dog lover Andy Carpenter…[a] self-deprecating lead, who winds up playing amateur sleuth.”
— Publishers WeeklyEntertaining, heartwarming and delightful to read.
— BookReporterDavid Rosenfelt is the Edgar-nominated and Shamus Award-winning author of thirty novels in the popular Andy Carpenter series, as well as stand-alone thrillers. Hounded won the Shamus Award for Best Hardcover Novel. He and his wife live in Maine with an ever-changing pack of rescue dogs. Their epic cross-country move with twenty-five of these dogs, culminating in the creation of the Tara Foundation, is chronicled in Dogtripping.
Grover Gardner (a.k.a. Tom Parker) is an award-winning narrator with over a thousand titles to his credit. Named one of the “Best Voices of the Century” and a Golden Voice by AudioFile magazine, he has won three prestigious Audie Awards, was chosen Narrator of the Year for 2005 by Publishers Weekly, and has earned more than thirty Earphones Awards.