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Best in Snow
by David Rosenfelt
Best in Snow is the first Andy Carpenter mystery I’ve picked up. I couldn’t resist the adorable cover and Grover Gardner as narrator. It worked fine as a stand-alone for me, although I’m sure I would have known more about Andy and the other recurring characters had I read the series from the beginning. At 24 books, that’s not going to happen.
This time around, Andy finds a dead body while walking his dogs. A former reporter for Andy Carpenter is an almost retired defense attorney with more than enough money, so he can pick and choose his clients- unless his friend and newspaper editor asks him to help out a former reporter charged with the mayor’s murder. Then he doesn’t get much of a choice.
Andy is clever and sarcastic and downright funny, all of which Gardner pulls off perfectly. The dialogue is entertaining and the dogs are all adorable. The plot was well-done, plenty of twists and turns, another body, enough clues if you can put them together.
I don’t read legal mysteries very often and I’m not sure why. I usually enjoy them. We’ve got the drama in the courtroom of whether Andy will be able to convince the jury of his client’s innocence. We’ve got peeks into the official investigation provided by the prosecution and Andy’s friends on the force. But of course Andy and his team are the ones that figure out what’s going on. Crooked politicians, organized crime, football and food, Best in Snow has a bit of everything. I’ll probably go back and listen to a few more in the series.
This time around, Andy finds a dead body while walking his dogs. A former reporter for Andy Carpenter is an almost retired defense attorney with more than enough money, so he can pick and choose his clients- unless his friend and newspaper editor asks him to help out a former reporter charged with the mayor’s murder. Then he doesn’t get much of a choice.
Andy is clever and sarcastic and downright funny, all of which Gardner pulls off perfectly. The dialogue is entertaining and the dogs are all adorable. The plot was well-done, plenty of twists and turns, another body, enough clues if you can put them together.
I don’t read legal mysteries very often and I’m not sure why. I usually enjoy them. We’ve got the drama in the courtroom of whether Andy will be able to convince the jury of his client’s innocence. We’ve got peeks into the official investigation provided by the prosecution and Andy’s friends on the force. But of course Andy and his team are the ones that figure out what’s going on. Crooked politicians, organized crime, football and food, Best in Snow has a bit of everything. I’ll probably go back and listen to a few more in the series.