Billy Zimmerman was a police officer in Paterson NJ and then he put his career on hold to fight in Iraq. He lost a leg when a young girl, used as a suicide bomber, blew up and killed several people including an Iraqi official who was to investigate and remove oil industry corruption. After Zimme...
Noah Galloway has a secret. A secret that he can no longer keep and is ready to spend his life in prison. He isn't surprised when they come to arrest him. He quietly goes off to prison knowing he will never get a chance to be with his wife and child again.Getting a new client isn't on Andy Carpen...
David Rosenfelt is quickly becoming one of my favourite authors! His books are always fun, entertaining reads. This book is a departure from what he normally writes about but a fun and interesting read. This particular book is more of a true story about how he and his wife moved 25 of their pet...
I have finished reading this beautifully written book and I would love to read the next one - if there would be another one. I first thought this book only described the journey to David's new house but it starts off with his own story on how he met his wife Debbie, her dog Tara and how Debbie an...
Andy doesn't need to work. He is very picky about the cases he will take on, but he rarely forgets the cases he has tried. One of those cases is a mobsters son that was convicted on a double murder. Evidence has surfaced that may show Joe is innocent. Andy digs back into the case and once again i...
This is the first of David Rosenfelt's books that I've read that is not a part of his popular, Andy Carpenter series, best known for it's light hearted love of dogs. While I have enjoyed that very much, when you want a more intense & exciting story, you must read this one. It's complete surprise ...
I am attracted to books that take place in New Jersey. I lived there for a while and I was a newspaper reporter and got around a bit, from Franklin Lakes to Paterson, Teaneck to Loveladies. So when I read Marcia's Goodreads review ( http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/... ) of David Rosenfelt's ...
Nominated for the Edgar and Shamus awards, Rosenfelt's debut novel, "Open and Shut," introduced irreverent lawyer Andy Carpenter. Now, Andy must save the love of his life, lead P.I. Laurie Collins, when she's framed for the murder of a cop.
I watch sixteen football games over nine hours. It's an extraordinary accomplishment...With the remote secure in the palm of my hand, or more often resting on my chest, I am all powerful. I haven't missed an important play since the Carter administration. His streak of murder case acquittals made...
Laurie says, handing me the paper. I’m still in bed, but she has gotten up to retrieve it from the lawn, where it’s left each morning. Tara finds “paper fetching” to be way, way beneath her. I could easily read the paper online every morning, as I do everything else, but I’m afraid if I cut off d...
Faster than he would like or felt completely comfortable with, yet he was the one putting his foot on the gas pedal. Speed was a necessity; it would not let the opposition have a chance to collect themselves. Besides, the sooner the goal was accomplished, the less time there was for something to ...
Things had always worked out for Carlton, and this situation would be no exception.But it was very irritating, mainly because he thought this issue had been put to bed. With Brennan out of the way, there was nothing standing in the way of the Court of Appeals decision. That would end the legal ba...
At the moment it is considered the hippest part of the entire city, and I am aware of that because I know people, who know people, who know people, who are hip. This is actually known as the Meatpacking District, because for years it has been the city’s center of wholesale...
She’s not quite as euphoric as I am. “We want Petrone, not Joseph Russo.” “Let’s look at the big picture here, shall we? He’s Petrone’s number two; you nail him and he’ll flip as well. If not, he’s a nice catch, considering you’re giving up nothing.” “We’re giving up immunity.” “Big deal. Costa i...
I barely have time to call Laurie before the afternoon session begins. I tell her about my conversation with Tommy in detail, and ask her to have Sam check out some of the facts. Just before I hang up, she asks, “Do you believe him?” “I’m embarrassed to say that I think I do. And if he is telli...
It had been routed to Lieutenant Coble’s office, because he was in charge of the investigation and had put out the word that he was searching for Alex Parker. Coble was at home at the time, but the message was relayed to him. Cognizant of how rare it was that tips actually amounted to anything, h...
I don’t know how it happens, but without trying, I’ll see things from a different perspective. And this was one of those times. I had been attempting, unsuccessfully, to figure out which little girl might be in danger, when it hit me that the opposite was true. When the killer wrote, “Sleep tight...
As Thomas Bader had said, these are only the beginning in what will be a series of discovery documents. But what is here is damaging enough to Denise Price. Barry Price probably died of botulism poisoning; the injuries he suffered when thrown from the plane were all, according to the coroner, lik...