And to all a good bite / David Rosenfelt.

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Rosenfelt, David [author.]

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Rosenfelt, David. Andy Carpenter novels ; Publisher: New York : Minotaur Books, 2025Edition: First editionDescription: 293 pages ; 22 cmContent type:

text

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unmediated

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9781250324573
1250324572

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Summary: "Reluctant lawyer Andy Carpenter investigates a murder that left a dog stranded in And to All a Good Bite, the latest Christmas mystery in David Rosenfelt's bestselling series. Reluctant lawyer Andy Carpenter can't wait for Christmas. He doesn't care much about the season, unless it's football season. Andy's excited to finally relax and watch the games. But when there's a murder related to an old case in Paterson, New Jersey, Andy puts the games on pause. Two years ago, a gas leak in an office building led to a tragic explosion that killed seven people. Jeff Wheeler was there to pick up his girlfriend and ran into the building to help. All he heard was the barking of a dog, Rufus, and was able to save him. The pup was the sole survivor and Jeff was named a hero. Initially, Rufus went to the Tara Foundation since his owner had died in the accident. But Andy met Jeff and liked him, respecting his courage and allowed him to adopt Rufus. Since then, Jeff and Rufus have formed an unbreakable bond. The accident never sat right with Jeff. He believed that one of the building owners was responsible for the tragedy. Now that owner has been murdered and Jeff is arrested for the crime, Rufus is left with Jeff's sister, who begs Andy to take the case. Andy remembered Jeff's tremendous bravery and with the lingering Christmas spirit, decides to help reunite the two. With David Rosenfelt's signature humor and hijinks, it's time to close this case for good and bid it a good night"-- Provided by publisher.

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Holdings
Item type	Current library	Collection	Shelving location	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Adult Book	Phillipsburg Free Public Library	Adult Fiction	New Books	FIC ROSENFELT	Checked out	11/21/2025	36748002627422

Total holds: 3

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Reluctant lawyer Andy Carpenter can't wait for Christmas. He doesn't care much about the season, unless it's football season. Andy's excited to finally relax and watch the games. But when there's a murder related to an old case in Paterson, New Jersey, Andy puts the games on pause.Two years ago, a gas leak in an office building led to a tragic explosion that killed seven people. Jeff Wheeler was there to pick up his girlfriend and ran into the building to help. All he heard was the barking of a dog, Rufus, and was able to save him. The pup was the sole survivor and Jeff was named a hero. Initially, Rufus went to the Tara Foundation since his owner had died in the accident. But Andy met Jeff and liked him, respecting his courage and allowed him to adopt Rufus. Since then, Jeff and Rufus have formed an unbreakable bond.The accident never sat right with Jeff. He believed that one of the building owners was responsible for the tragedy. Now that owner has been murdered and Jeff is arrested for the crime, Rufus is left with Jeff's sister, who begs Andy to take the case. Andy remembered Jeff's tremendous bravery and with the lingering Christmas spirit, decides to help reunite the two.With David Rosenfelt's signature humor and hijinks, it's time to close this case for good and bid it a good night.

"Reluctant lawyer Andy Carpenter investigates a murder that left a dog stranded in And to All a Good Bite, the latest Christmas mystery in David Rosenfelt's bestselling series. Reluctant lawyer Andy Carpenter can't wait for Christmas. He doesn't care much about the season, unless it's football season. Andy's excited to finally relax and watch the games. But when there's a murder related to an old case in Paterson, New Jersey, Andy puts the games on pause. Two years ago, a gas leak in an office building led to a tragic explosion that killed seven people. Jeff Wheeler was there to pick up his girlfriend and ran into the building to help. All he heard was the barking of a dog, Rufus, and was able to save him. The pup was the sole survivor and Jeff was named a hero. Initially, Rufus went to the Tara Foundation since his owner had died in the accident. But Andy met Jeff and liked him, respecting his courage and allowed him to adopt Rufus. Since then, Jeff and Rufus have formed an unbreakable bond. The accident never sat right with Jeff. He believed that one of the building owners was responsible for the tragedy. Now that owner has been murdered and Jeff is arrested for the crime, Rufus is left with Jeff's sister, who begs Andy to take the case. Andy remembered Jeff's tremendous bravery and with the lingering Christmas spirit, decides to help reunite the two. With David Rosenfelt's signature humor and hijinks, it's time to close this case for good and bid it a good night"-- Provided by publisher.

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Kirkus Book Review

How better to celebrate the holidays than by taking in a homeless dog and solving multiple murders? One year after a gas leak killed financial director Lisa Dozier and six other employees of Marstan Industries, and one day after Jeff Wheeler, who'd planned to ask Lisa to marry him, publicly accused Marstan head Stanley Franklin of deliberately arranging the leak himself in order to kill his underlings, Franklin is obligingly found shot to death in the doorway of his magisterial home. The police, who find the murder weapon discarded in a plastic bag containing lots of stuff traceable to Jeff, quickly arrest him. His case seems so hopeless that his sister, Carol Hendrickson, appeals to still-not-retired Paterson, New Jersey, defense attorney Andy Carpenter to replace his court-appointed counsel, and Andy agrees both to provide a temporary home for Lisa's dog, Rufus, whom Jeff rescued from the burning building when he couldn't reach Lisa, and to represent Jeff in hopes that Rufus' tenancy will indeed be only temporary. The defense Andy constructs, which begins by looking for reasonable doubt under every possible rock, eventually focuses on an auction Franklin had scheduled for a Nazi-held trove of master paintings only recently discovered and liberated, a collection Franklin plans to sell en masse for a minimum bid of $150 million. With that much money at stake, there's got to be a connection to the principal's murder, Andy reasons, and of course he's right--though working through that connection proves perhaps the least interesting part of Andy's characteristically insouciant narration of his adventures, falling far behind his appealingly flippant remarks to everyone from grieving widow Margaret Franklin to Bergen County Judge Danielle Eddings. A middling entry in this unfailingly entertaining series. Copyright (c) Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.