Books by David Rosenfelt and Complete Book Reviews
David Rosenfelt. Minotaur, $24.99 (304p) ISBN 978-1-250-02476-3
Lt. Luke Somers, of the New Jersey State Police, faces a critical deadline in this solid stand-alone from Edgar-finalist Rosenfelt (Heart of a Killer). When an anonymous tip names drug addict Steven Gallagher as the killer of Judge Daniel Brennan,...
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David Rosenfelt. Minotaur, $26.99 (304p) ISBN 978-1-250-13314-4
In Edgar finalist Rosenfelt’s outstanding third Doug Brock novel (after 2018’s Fade to Black), Brock, a New Jersey State Police homicide lieutenant who lost some of his memories after being shot in the head several years earlier, hopes this handicap
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David Rosenfelt. Minotaur, $24.99 (336p) ISBN 978-1-250-19848-8
In Edgar-finalist Rosenfelt’s enchanting Christmas-themed 18th mystery featuring Paterson, N.J., attorney Andy Carpenter (after Rescued), Andy’s wife, Laurie, urges him to offer their garage apartment to a homeless veteran, Don Carrigan, and his dog.
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David Rosenfelt. Minotaur, $26.99 (336p) ISBN 978-1-250-13306-9
In Edgar-finalist Rosenfelt’s cleverly plotted 17th mystery featuring Paterson, N.J., defense lawyer and dog rescuer Andy Carpenter (after 2017’s Collared), Andy gets a call about 61 dogs found in a tractor trailer parked at a rest stop on the...
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David Rosenfelt. Minotaur, $25.99 (336p) ISBN 978-1-250-13312-0
In Rosenfelt’s solid sequel to 2016’s Blackout, New Jersey state police officer Doug Brock encounters a man named Sean Conner at an amnesia support group. Conner persuades Brock to reinvestigate a three-year-old case that Brock himself helped solve,
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David Rosenfelt. Minotaur, $26.99 (336p) ISBN 978-1-250-05535-4
Fans of Edgar-finalist Rosenfelt’s series featuring independently wealthy New Jersey lawyer and dog rescue enthusiast Andy Carpenter will get a jolt when they pick up the outstanding 16th entry (after 2016’s The Twelve Dogs of Christmas): Andy is...
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David Rosenfelt. Minotaur, $24.99 (336p) ISBN 978-1-250-10676-6
Martha “Pups” Boyer, who’s at the center of Edgar-finalist Rosenfelt’s entertaining 15th legal thriller featuring Patterson, N.J., attorney Andy Carpenter (after Outfoxed), earned her nickname for her efforts to take in stray puppies that the local...
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David Rosenfelt. Minotaur, $25.99 (336p) ISBN 978-1-250-05534-7
Edgar-finalist Rosenfelt’s entertaining 14th legal thriller featuring New Jersey attorney and dog lover Andy Carpenter (after 2015’s Who Let the Dog Out?) finds Andy running a program called Prison Pals, which uses inmates to help train and...
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David Rosenfelt. Minotaur, $25.99 (320p) ISBN 978-1-250-05531-6
This gripping standalone from Rosenfelt (Without Warning) tells a crackerjack story replete with wry observations and witty, and totally convincing, dialogue. While hot on the trail of crime boss Nicholas Bennett, New Jersey state police officer...
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David Rosenfelt. Minotaur, $25.99 (336p) ISBN 978-1-250-05533-0
At the start of Rosenfelt’s subpar 13th mystery featuring lawyer Andy Carpenter (after 2014’s Hounded), thief Gerry Downey breaks into the Tara Foundation, Andy’s dog rescue operation in Paterson, N.J., and steals Cheyenne, a German shepherd mix....
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David Rosenfelt, read by Jeff Steitzer. Listen & Live Audio, , unabridged, $29.95 ISBN 978-1-59316-667-0
Rosenfelt’s latest hapless hero, Jake Robbins, is the police chief of Wilton, Maine, a job that becomes considerably more difficult after a powerful hurricane and flood unearth the town’s 50-year time capsule about 46 years prematurely. It was put...
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David Rosenfelt. Minotaur, $25.99 (320p) ISBN 978-1-250-02474-9
In Edgar finalist Rosenfelt’s heartwarming 12th Andy Carpenter mystery (after 2013’s Unleashed), the DA and his partner, Laurie Collins, agree to foster eight-year-old Ricky Diaz, a murder victim’s son, and his dog, Sebastian. Then Andy’s friend and
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David Rosenfelt. . Minotaur, $25.99 (304p) ISBN 978-1-250-02479-4
At the start of this riveting standalone from Edgar-finalist Rosenfelt (Airtight), a hurricane destroys a Wilton, Maine, dam. When newspaper publisher Katie Sanford and her staff unearth the time capsule they buried nearly five years earlier to...
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David Rosenfelt. Minotaur, $25.99 (368p) ISBN 978-1-250-02472-5
The threat of a major terrorist attack on the U.S. doesn’t dispel the charm of Edgar-finalist Rosenfelt’s 11th mystery featuring Paterson, N.J., criminal defense attorney Andy Carpenter (after 2012’s Leader of the Pack). Andy, who’s independently...
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David Rosenfelt. St. Martin’s, $25.99 (288p) ISBN 978-1-250-01469-6
Puppy love is taken to a new extreme in this rambling memoir chronicling Rosenfelt’s journey transporting 25 dogs from Southern California to Maine. In addition to writing the Andy Carpenter mystery series, Rosenfelt and his wife, Debbie, share a...
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David Rosenfelt, Author . Mysterious $23.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-89296-748-3
It's no surprise to find Harlan Coben giving a blurb to Rosenfelt's debut mystery, an homage to Coben's popular Myron Bolitar series. Like Bolitar, lawyer Andy Carpenter lives in suburban New Jersey, has strong bonds with his father, is...
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David Rosenfelt, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur $22.95 (306p) ISBN 978-0-312-37395-5
Near the start of this stellar stand-alone from Rosenfelt (Play Dead
), ordinary guy Timothy Wallace, still grieving for his wife, Maggie, who was blown to bits in a boating explosion on Long Island Sound a few months earlier, hears a gruesome...
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David Rosenfelt, Author . Mysterious $23.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-89296-754-4
Clever plot twists, deft legal maneuverings and keen wit boost Rosenfelt's accomplished follow-up to his Edgar-nominated debut, Open and Shut
(2002). Newly wealthy and no longer in need of cases to sustain his legal practice, Paterson, N.J.,...
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David Rosenfelt, Author . Mysterious $24 (261p) ISBN 978-0-89296-782-7
In Rosenfelt's breezy crime confection, his third to feature Andy Carpenter (after 2003's First Degree
), a serial killer who cuts off his victims' hands has been terrorizing the dog-loving lawyer's northern New Jersey turf. When the
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David Rosenfelt, Author . Mysterious $23.95 (306p) ISBN 978-0-89296-783-4
Edgar-finalist Rosenfelt scores another touchdown with his fourth Andy Carpenter novel (after 2004's Bury the Lead
) and proves he's in the game to stay. Andy's first-person wit seizes the reader's attention on the opening page: "
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David Rosenfelt, Author . Mysterious $24.95 (310p) ISBN 978-0-89296-002-6
If there aren't any real-life lawyers as entertaining, as witty and as willing to tilt at windmills as Andy Carpenter, Edgar-finalist Rosenfelt's engaging series hero, then there should be. In Andy's fifth outing (after 2005's Sudden
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David Rosenfelt, Author . Warner $24.99 (308p) ISBN 978-0-446-58241-4
Edgar-finalist Rosenfelt's riveting sixth legal thriller (after 2006's Dead Center
) brings independently wealthy Paterson, N.J., lawyer Andy Carpenter to the defense of a very special domestic violence victim, Yogi, a golden retriever...
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David Rosenfelt. Minotaur, $24.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-312-59837-2
Edgar-finalist Rosenfelt’s fine stand-alone begins as a legal thriller that twists into a murder mystery before becoming a full-blown suspense chiller. The life of Karen Harrison, a 14-year-old girl with a congenital heart defect, can only be saved...
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David Rosenfelt, Author . Grand Central $24.99 (309p) ISBN 978-0-446-50587-1
In Rosenfelt’s excellent seventh legal thriller to feature Paterson, N.J., defense attorney Andy Carpenter (after Play Dead
), Andy takes on another canine client—Waggy, a Bernese mountain puppy, who’s somehow connected to the...
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David Rosenfelt, Author Minotaur $24.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-312-37394-8
Near the start of Rosenfelt’s dynamite thriller, his second stand-alone after 2008’s Don’t Tell a Soul
, reporter Chris Turley from the Bergen News
, is about to meet an anonymous tipster at a Teaneck, N.J., park to discuss “c
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David Rosenfelt, Grand Central, $24.99 (368p) ISBN 9780446551526
Series fans and newcomers alike will welcome Rosenfelt's eighth comic legal thriller to feature Paterson, N.J., defense lawyer Andy Carpenter (after New Tricks). Billy Zimmerman, an ex-cop and Iraq war vet who lost a leg to a suicide bomber, has...
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David Rosenfelt, Minotaur, $24.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-312-59836-5
At the start of this excellent stand-alone from Rosenfelt (Down to the Wire), 29-year-old journalist Richard Kilmer is planning to ask the love of his life, Jennifer Ryan, to marry him. But on a drive from Manhattan's Upper West Side, where they...
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David Rosenfelt. Minotaur, $24.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-312-64799-5
In Rosenfelt's winning ninth Andy Carpenter legal thriller (after Dog Tags), Paterson, N.J.'s most reluctant defense attorney agrees to defend recovering drug addict Noah Galloway, who's been arrested for setting a fire six years earlier that killed
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David Rosenfelt, read by Jeff Steitzer. Listen & Live Audio, unabridged, six CDs, 7.25 hrs., $29.95 ISBN 978-1-59316-640-3
New Jersey cop Luke Somers, the first-person narrator of Rosenfelt’s new stand-alone, is thoroughly professional on the job, but hapless and a little goofy when it comes to personal matters. As Luke describes his workday, explaining that he’s been...
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David Rosenfelt, Author, Grover Gardner, Read by , read by Grover Gardner. Listen & Live Audio $29.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-59316-097-5
Gardner's breezy, slightly sarcastic delivery is just what's needed for Rosenfeld's breezy, slightly sarcastic mysteries featuring multimillionaire New Jersey lawyer Andy Carpenter. The yarns, told in first-person, present tense by...
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David Rosenfelt, read by Grover Gardner. Listen & Live Audio, unabridged, six CDs, 7 hrs., $29.95 ISBN 978-1-59316-657-1
Barry Price calls on accountant Sam Wills and lawyer Andy Carpenter for help with a matter he can’t discuss over the phone. But while driving to meet Barry, Sam and Andy almost hit an injured dog with their car. They stop to help the dog, miss their
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David Rosenfelt, Author, Grover Gardner, Read by , read by Grover Gardner. Listen & Live Audio $29.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-59316-079-1
Even if Rosenfelt's novels about multimillionaire New Jersey defense attorney Andy Carpenter didn't hit all the right mystery novel notes, the intimacy of their hero's breezy, subjective, present-tense narration would make them ideal...
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David Rosenfelt, Author, Grover Gardner, Read by , read by Grover Gardner. Listen & Live Audio $29.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-59316-057-9
Abridging a mystery is always a tricky task—cut too much and the reader is either in the dark or wondering about dangling plot threads. But this abridgement is superbly done, reducing the length while maintaining the novel's essence and...
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David Rosenfelt. Minotaur, $27.99 (304p) ISBN 978-1-250-13309-0
In Edgar finalist Rosenfelt’s enjoyable 19th mystery featuring Paterson, N.J., defense attorney Andy Carpenter (after 2018’s Deck the Hounds), Andy is incensed when his vet informs him that someone left a French bulldog called Buster at the vet’s...
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David Rosenfelt. Minotaur, $25 (368p) ISBN 978-1-250-23768-2
Edgar-finalist Rosenfelt’s winning 20th mystery featuring Paterson, N.J., defense attorney Andy Carpenter (after Bark of Night) focuses on a cold case: the murder of 18-year-old Kristen McNeil, whose body was found near an abandoned stadium 14 years
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David Rosenfelt. Minotaur, $27.99 (304p) ISBN 978-1-250-25719-2
This strong series launch from Edgar finalist Rosenfelt, a spin-off from the author’s Andy Carpenter series (Dachsund Through the Snow, etc.), stars Carpenter’s wife, Laurie Collins, who has left the Paterson, N.J., PD to form the K Team, which...
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David Rosenfelt. Minotaur, $27.99 (304p) ISBN 978-1-250-25711-6
Happily retired Andy Carpenter can never resist “unretiring” to help someone in trouble, as shown in Edgar finalist Rosenfelt’s intricately plotted 21st mystery featuring the Paterson, N.J., defense attorney (after 2019’s Dachshund Through the Snow).
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David Rosenfelt. Minotaur, $25.99 (304p) ISBN 978-1-250-25714-7
Edgar finalist Rosenfelt’s entertaining 22nd mystery featuring semiretired defense attorney Andy Carpenter (after Muzzled) finds Andy and his family returning home to Paterson, N.J., after a Caribbean cruise, which he didn’t particularly enjoy, when
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David Rosenfelt. Minotaur, $27.99 (304p) ISBN 978-1-250-25720-8
In Edgar finalist Rosenfelt’s winning sequel to 2020’s The K Team, former police officers turned PIs Corey Douglas and Laurie Collins look into the shooting death of Lisa Yates on a street in Paterson, N.J. While on the Paterson PD, Corey was called
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David Rosenfelt. Minotaur, $27.99 (304p) ISBN 978-1-250-25712-3
Early in Edgar finalist Rosenfelt’s enjoyable 23rd Andy Carpenter mystery (after 2020’s Silent Bite), the semi-retired Paterson, N.J., defense attorney is enjoying a stroll with his wife, Laurie, and their dogs when they see a man kicking a pug on a
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David Rosenfelt. Minotaur, $25.99 (320p) ISBN 978-1-250-25717-8
Edgar finalist Rosenfelt’s jaunty 24th Andy Carpenter mystery (after Dog Eat Dog) opens on a snowy November night in Paterson, N.J. Semiretired defense attorney Andy is walking his dogs in the park when Tara, “the greatest golden retriever the world
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David Rosenfelt. Minotaur, $27.99 (304p) ISBN 978-1-250-82893-4
Former police officer Corey Douglas, the narrator of Edgar finalist Rosenfelt’s winning third K Team novel (after 2021’s Animal Instinct), tackles a cold case involving two of his high school classmates who disappeared seven years earlier during...
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David Rosenfelt. Minotaur, $27.99 (304p) ISBN 978-1-250-82887-3
In Edgar finalist Rosenfelt’s wry 25th Andy Carpenter novel (after 2021’s Best in Show), the semiretired Paterson, N.J., defense attorney arranges for Rachel Morehouse to adopt a Chow Chow through his dog rescue organization, the Tara Foundation....
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David Rosenfelt. Minotaur, $25.99 (304p) ISBN 978-1-250-82881-1
In Edgar finalist Rosenfelt’s pleasing 26th mystery featuring semiretired Paterson, N.J., lawyer Andy Carpenter (after Holy Chow), Chris Myers, an employee at the Tara Foundation, a dog rescue center Andy runs, needs his help. A disbarred lawyer,...
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David Rosenfelt. Minotaur, $27.99 (288p) ISBN 978-1-250-82896-5
In Edgar finalist Rosenfelt’s appealing fourth K Team novel (after 2022’s Citizen K-9), the K Team—retired police detective Corey Douglas and other PIs who consult on cold cases for the Paterson, N.J., PD—look into the execution-style murder of...
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David Rosenfelt. Minotaur, $28 (272p) ISBN 978-1-250-82890-3
Rosenfelt’s witty, well-paced 27th courtroom cozy starring Paterson, N.J., trial lawyer Andy Carpenter (after 2022’s Santa’s Little Yelpers) sees Carpenter failing, once again, to settle into a blissful retirement. When Hollywood star Jenny Nichols...
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