Book Beginnings: One Dog Night by David Rosenfelt

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Book Beginnings is hosted by Gillion at Rose City Reader. She asks that the first sentence is posted along with the author and title of the book and the reader's initial thoughts on the sentence, the book, or anything else it inspires.

Carrie at Reading Is My Superpower.org also provides a linky for sharing first lines and connecting with others. This meme asks that the chosen books be PG or marked as Mature if they are not.

The Friday 56 is hosted by Freda at Freda's Voice. This meme is currently on hiatus but many of us are still including a sentence from page 56 or from 56% of the ebook. Anne @ Head Full of Books is picking up the slack until Freda is ready to return. I think this link will get you to the correct place.

Beginning:

When they came into the room, Noah Galloway looked at his watch.

Friday 56:

"They'll only plea-bargain if they have weaknesses in their case."

"That's okay; I'm not bargaining. There's no way I'm going to see the light of day again. I just want this over with; the less Becky has to go through...the less Adam has to hear as he grows up..." He starts to choke up and stops speaking.

This week I am spotlighting One Dog Night by David Rosenfelt. This is the ninth book in the Andy Carpenter mystery series. I came to this series late when I was offered a copy of book 20 for review in 2020. I fell in love with the characters especially the sarcastic Andy and have been trying to catch up on the earlier books in the series as well as reading each new one as a review book.

Here's the blurb from Amazon for this book:

Lawyer Andy Carpenter will have to pull out all of his tricks to get to the bottom of this cold case turned white hot in One Dog Night, the latest in David Rosenfelt's popular mystery series.

For six years Noah Galloway has lived with a horrible secret and the fear that his rebuilt life could be shattered at any moment. Now his dread has become a certainty, and he has been arrested for the arson murder of twenty-six people.

What he needs is defense lawyer Andy Carpenter, who most definitely is not in the market for a new client. So Noah plays his hole card: a shared love for Andy’s golden retriever, Tara, and the knowledge that Andy wasn’t her first owner—Noah rescued Tara first. When Noah wasn’t able to care for her any longer, he did everything in his power to make sure that she was placed in the right home: Andy’s.

Andy soon learns that the long-ago event that may destroy Noah’s life is only the beginning of an ongoing conspiracy that grows more deadly by the day.