'Twas the Bite Before Christmas (Andy Carpenter Series #28)

by David Rosenfelt, Grover Gardner (Read by)

Overview

"Listening to Grover Gardner narrating a David Rosenfelt novel is like sliding into favorite slippers at the end of a long day: One feels the joyful gratification of a perfect fit." —AudioFile on Bark of Night

In National Bestseller David Rosenfelt’s ‘Twas the Bite Before Christmas, all through the Carpenter house, five dogs are stirring, and not even Andy can get out of working this next case at his door.

Reluctant lawyer Andy Carpenter is at the Tara Foundation’s annual Christmas party. The dog rescue organization has always been his true calling, and this is one holiday tradition he can get behind because every dog that’s come through the rescue—and their families—are invited to celebrate.

This year’s party is no exception. But before the stockings can be hung by the chimney with care, homicide detectives ruin the evening. Derek Moore, one of the foundation’s best foster volunteers, is arrested for murder.

Andy discovers Derek—whose real name is Bobby—is in the witness protection program after giving evidence against his former gang. The police believe Bobby murdered a member. But Bobby swears to Andy he didn’t do this. He’s built a new life, a new business, has two new dogs after being a double foster-failure.

There isn’t much Andy likes about this case, but he likes Bobby. If he’s innocent, Andy wants to help. Before Andy can settle down for his long winter’s nap, he has a client’s name to clear, a murderer to catch, and two new dogs to look after: a golden and a Dalmatian. Andy’s golden retriever, Tara, will have to adjust to not being the only golden at the house while Andy gets to the bottom of this one…

A Macmillan Audio production from Minotaur Books.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781250909817
Publisher:	Macmillan Audio
Publication date:	10/10/2023
Series:	Andy Carpenter Series , #28
Edition description:	Unabridged
Product dimensions:	5.10(w) x 5.80(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

DAVID ROSENFELT is the Edgar-nominated and Shamus Award–winning author of almost 30 Andy Carpenter novels, including Dog Day Afternoon; several stand-alone thrillers; nonfiction titles; and several K Team novels, a series featuring some of the characters from the Andy Carpenter series. After years of living in California, he and his wife moved to Maine with twenty-five of the four thousand dogs they have rescued.

Grover Gardner has recorded more than 650 audiobooks since beginning his career in 1981.  He's been named one of the "Best Voices of the Century" as well as a "Golden Voice" by AudioFile magazine.  Gardner has garnered over 20 AudioFile Earphones Awards and is the recipient of an Audio Publishers Association Audie Award, as well as a three-time finalist.  In 2005, Publishers Weekly deemed him "Audiobook Narrator of the Year."

 

Gardner has also narrated hundreds of audiobooks under the names Tom Parker and Alexander Adams.  Among his many titles are Marcus Sakey's At the City's Edge, as well as Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, Mark Twain's The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, and John Irving's The Cider House Rules.  Gardner studied Theater and Art History at Rollins College and received a Master's degree in Acting from George Washington University.  He lives in Oregon with his significant other and daughter.

Editorial Reviews

Praise for 'Twas the Bite Before Christmas

“The courtroom scenes shine.” –Kirkus Reviews

Praise for David Rosenfelt and The Andy Carpenter Mysteries

“The climactic revelation, as in all of Andy’s best cases, is both head-shakingly incredible and deeply satisfying.” —Kirkus Reviews on Santa’s Little Yelpers

“Rosenfelt provides everything you need to enjoy this snowy mystery.” —Bookreporter.com on Best in Snow

"Silent Bite is highly recommended and is proof that each new instalment in the Andy Carpenter Mystery series is a winner." — Portland Book Review

“This book was a romping good time, perfect for taking a break through the stressful holidays.” — Dogster Magazine on Dachshund Through the Snow

“All the elements dedicated readers will be expecting, wrapped up in a festive Yuletide setting.” — Library Journal (starred review) on Deck the Hounds

“Heartwarming.” — Associated Press on The Twelve Dogs of Christmas

From the Publisher

2023-08-12
Smart-aleck Paterson, New Jersey, attorney Andy Carpenter celebrates the holidays by taking on the defense of a man with a criminal past who’s facing even more serious charges backed up by a mountain of evidence.

Robert Klaster has failed twice in his attempts to foster dogs from Andy’s Tara Foundation, but that’s far from his greatest offense against society. As the getaway driver in a robbery that left two people shockingly dead, he turned state’s evidence against triggermen Johnny Luko and Donnie Briggs, from Tony Giordano’s Cobra gang, and was given a new identity as Derek Moore and placed in New Jersey’s witness protection program. His newfound sense of security crashes when he’s arrested for the murder of Roland Banks, an ex-con from Camden, after a conveniently anonymous tip advised the cops to search his home, where they found the gun that shot Banks, and his car trunk, where they found Banks’ blood. Andy’s not eager to take the case in the face of all this evidence, but then Andy’s never eager to take any case. Things get more complicated after a highly revealing conversation that Andy and private eye Corey Douglas—the partner of Andy’s wife, Laurie Collins, on the K Team—have with Alex Castro, the night manager at the motel where Banks stayed, leads to Castro’s strangling. Andy is certain that the two murders are connected, but can he persuade a jury—assuming that prosecutor Stan Godfrey will even let him introduce the evidence connecting them?

As usual, the courtroom scenes shine, though the biggest mystery is who’s going to follow the title and get bitten.

Kirkus Reviews