Setting: Tucson, Arizona - his house/office/neighborhood; ranch/mine/biker campsite/pound in Sierra Verde;Theme: where is the girl? Working together;Characters:Bernie Little: PI; money problems; ex-wife problems; ex-Army, ex-police; drinks too much; loves his son; honorable; loved by Chet;Chet: ...
Sorry readers but this is not a review although I have read this book. I have given all the Chet and Bernie mystery series 5 stars simply for the pure enjoyment of reading them. If you end up loving a book and want to read it over and over and you fall in love with the characters isn't that wort...
Bernie and Chet investigating again. This time they are looking for a missing elephant from the circus and it's trainer. Eventually the trainer is found dead in the dessert and the elephant is found alive and kicking. Chet the dog sounds like a real person at times. Bernie also is investigat...
couldn't stop reading it! I shouldn't stay up late like that! I love Chet and Bernie, although I do sometimes wonder how long Spencer Quinn will be able to sustain this series.Chet's voice is very dog-like -- he's very literal, and you can tell that he doesn't follow every conversation. I love...
Chet, the narrator of this series of books, is one of my favorite voices in all of literature. He is one-half of the Little Detective Agency with his best friend, Bernie. Together they find themselves buried in a mystery - if only Chet could remember what was going on. Oh yeah, Chet's a dog.Chet ...
Chet met Bernie on the day he flunked out of K-9 police school. The details of that day though have always remained a little vague. All we know is that Chet had been the best leaper in his K-9 class, but for some reason he failed his final leaping test...and that a cat was involved and that there...
from James:I've reviewed Quinn's titles before and have always been glowingly positive. The newest title though, sort of falls flat. I think maybe removing Chet and Bernie from the familiar wild west was a mistake. The terrain here feels less interesting.As for the story, there are too many co...
There’s a pet food commercial on TV that features a number of dogs running and leaping. I don’t remember the name of the product but I love to watch the dogs and, every time I see it, I just naturally think of Chet because he takes such joy in life, the way those dogs look like they’re doing. Che...
The point is that the cops who swarmed into the room above the coffee shop not long after Fleurette had gone were all different in color, going from very light to very dark. The darkest cop wore the fanciest uniform, fancy uniforms being a little detail you watch for in this business. They all to...
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We waltzed right in, me slightly in front, found ourselves in a darkened kitchen, a fridge humming away against the far wall, baloney and cheddar cheese inside it. I made another one of those mental notes—hey! I was starting to get it!—and headed for a narrow and dimly lit hall. Somewhere in the ...
Usually I’m brilliant at forgetting, so why couldn’t I forget that particular episode? Let’s drop the whole subject. What to remember is that riding shotgun in the Porsche just happens to be my favorite thing in the whole world. Our ride’s been a Porsche ever since the start of the Little Detecti...