Santa’s Little Yelpers by David Rosenfelt

 

Title:  Santa’s Little Yelpers:  An Andy Carpenter Mystery

Author:  David Rosenfelt

Narrated by:  Grover Gardner

Publisher: Macmillan Audio

Length: Approximately 6 hours and 41 minutes

Source: Review Copy from NetGalley.  Thank-you!

 Do you judge a book by its cover?  I totally judge a book by its cover.  I judged this book as being full of puppy love at Christmas and didn’t investigate what the story was about.  This book actually doesn’t have much to do with puppies or Christmas, but it was a good story.

 The story does start out with Andy Carpenter’s dog rescue, Tara’s Foundation, named after his golden retriever, Tara.  The rescue has eight new puppies and Chris Myers works at the foundation helping with the puppies.  Chris was once a lawyer but has been debarred after serving time for killing a man in a bar.  Chris was drunk and doesn’t remember killing the man.  Once he finds out the star witness has lied, he has hope that he will be able to overturn his conviction.  But when the star witness is killed in a drive by shooting, Chris is arrested for his murder, and it is up to Andy to help Chris out.  Will he be able to prove his innocence?

 I thought the mystery was interesting and fun.  Andy was a character.  I loved his humor and his tenacity at solving the crime.  The mystery had a lot of twists and turns, and I did not figure it out!

 Santa’s Little Yelpers is number twenty-six of the Andy Carpenter series.  I had not read any other books in this series, but I did enjoy this audiobook as a standalone.

 I loved Grover Gardner’s narration.  He has a nice deep voice that sounds like a detective on the scene of a crime.  It fits perfectly with this book.