<p>A lawyer by day-and then only when he&apos;s forced to take on new cases-Andy Carpenter&apos;s true passion is the Tara Foundation, the dog rescue organization he runs with his friend Willie Miller. So it&apos;s frightening when Willie calls him to say the alarm has gone off at the foundation building, and there&apos;s clearly been a break-in. It turns out that a recently rescued dog, nicknamed Cheyenne since her arrival at the foundation, has been stolen. Andy and Willie track the missing dog to a house in downtown Paterson, New Jersey and sure enough, they find the dog...standing right next to a dead body. The man had been gruesomely murdered mere minutes before Andy and Willie arrived. Could it be a coincidence? Or could the dog theft somehow be connected to the killing?<br /><br />Andy takes Cheyenne safely back to the foundation building, and that should be the end of his involvement, but Andy&apos;s curiosity-and his desire to keep the dog from further harm-won&apos;t let him stop there. The cops have just arrested a man named Tommy Infante for the murder, but as Andy looks into the circumstances surrounding the break-in and the dog theft, he starts to wonder if Infante might actually be innocent. And when Andy takes Infante on as a client and starts searching in earnest for evidence that will exonerate him, what Andy starts to discover terrifies him. The murder might be just one small cog in a plot with far-reaching implications, and unless Andy can uncover the truth in time, thousands of lives could be in imminent danger.<br /><br />Once again David Rosenfelt has written a fast-paced and clever mystery with his characteristic blend of humor, larger-than-life characters, and propulsive plotting.</p>