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The Good Boy: A Novel Audiobook
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Edgar award winner Theresa Schwegel returns with The Good Boy, her most dramatic and emotional novel to date, a family epic that combines the hard-boiled grit of her acclaimed police thrillers with an intimate portrait of a young boy trying to follow his heart in an often heartless city.
For Officer Pete Murphy, K9 duty is as much a punishment as a promotion. When a shaky arrest reignites a recent scandal and triggers a multimillion-dollar lawsuit, all eyes are on Pete as the department braces for another media firestorm.
Meanwhile, Pete's eleven-year-old son Joel feels invisible. His parents hardly notice him—unless they're arguing about his "behavioral problems"—and his older sister, McKenna, has lately disappeared into the strange and frightening world of teenagerdom. About the only friend Joel has left is Butchie, his father's furry "partner."
When Joel and Butchie follow McKenna to a neighborhood bully's party, illegal activity kicks the dog's police training into overdrive, and soon the duo are on the run, navigating the streets of Chicago as they try to stay one step ahead of the bad guys—bad guys who may have a very personal interest in getting some payback on Officer Pete Murphy.
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"Theresa Schwegel is an Edgar-winning crime writer whose Chicago police stories are more nuanced and impassioned than most books of their genre....For all the dog books currently in vogue, it's hard to beat this one for canine verisimilitude or talent....The dog elevates a fairly conventional detective story into something much more lovable."
— The New York Times
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“A terrific piece of crime writing—propulsive action paired with the authentic sounds of a city on the make. Theresa Schwegel’s ear for dialogue is pitch-perfect—from the station house to the streets, from cops to robbers to teens, Schwegel serves up fully-realized characters who pop off the page. An essential read.”
— Gillian Flynn, New York Times bestselling author of Gone Girl -
“A terrific piece of crime writing--propulsive action paired with the authentic sounds of a city on the make. Theresa Schwegel's ear for dialogue is pitch-perfect--from the station house to the streets, from cops to robbers to teens, Schwegel serves up fully-realized characters who pop off the page. An essential read.
— GILLIAN FLYNN -
A vivid, nuanced, and emotional tale told in prose that crackles with electricity. The characters are real, their world is our own, and their stories the kind that linger long after the last page is turned. At once a thriller and a beautifully rendered family story, it simply won't disappoint.
— MICHAEL KORYTA -
A brooding, world-wise, humane piece of crime fiction...Readers who respond to it will find the book lingering in their minds longer than most.
— USA Today -
[A] nail-biter...The reader will empathize with everyone from Pete, who has his heart in the right place but makes several wrong turns, to Butch, who never speaks yet says volumes.
— Publisher's Weekly -
“A vivid, nuanced, and emotional tale told in prose that crackles with electricity. The characters are real, their world is our own, and their stories the kind that linger long after the last page is turned. At once a thriller and a beautifully rendered family story, it simply won’t disappoint.”
— Michael Koryta, New York Times bestselling author of The Prophet -
A brooding, world-wise, humane piece of crime fiction…Readers who respond to it will find the book lingering in their minds longer than most.”
— USA Today -
“If Schwegel can keep up this level of plotting, action, and character development for another twenty books or so…people will be saying that Robert Crais could have been another Theresa Schwegel if he had just tried a little harder.”
— Houston Chronicle -
“[A] nail-biter…The reader will empathize with everyone from Pete, who has his heart in the right place but makes several wrong turns, to Butch, who never speaks yet says volumes.”
— Publisher’s Weekly
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About Theresa Schwegel
Theresa Schwegel’s Officer Down won the Edgar Award for Best First Novel and was shortlisted for the Anthony Award. A graduate of Loyola University and a recipient of an MFA in screenwriting from Chapman University, she was awarded the Twenty-First Century Award from the Chicago Public Library.
About Luke Daniels
Luke Daniels, winner of sixteen AudioFile Earphones Awards and a finalist for the Audie Award for best narration, is a narrator whose many audiobook credits range from action and suspense to young-adult fiction. His background is in classical theater and film, and he has performed at repertory theaters around the country.