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Taken in the Cold by Roger Stelljes Synopsis: "Make sure you wrap up warm for school, honey. A blizzard is on the way." Ten-year-old Teddy rolls his eyes at his mother. But then he hears a bang... By the time police arrive, Teddy's mother is dead. His open school backpack is strewn across the hallway. And Teddy is nowhere to be found.   When gunshots ring out from an exclusive family home on the edge of Northern Pine Lake,  Agent Tori Hunter  races through the gathering snowstorm to discover that  ten-year-old Teddy Marist has disappeared . His mother and her new boyfriend are dead in the family kitchen, breakfast still cooking on the stove. And racing to track down Teddy's father,  Tori finds he is missing too.   Local police are certain this is a simple case of a jealous ex-husband turned violent over his recent divorce. But interviewing everyone she can about Teddy's father, Tori's gut has her questioning if he would really kidnap his own child?  An...

Best in Snow (An Andy Carpenter Novel, 24) by David Rosenfelt

Title: Best in Snow
Author: David Rosenfelt
Series: Andy Carpenter
Genre: Cozy Mystery    
Format: Hardcover
No. of Pages: 314
Date of Publication: October 19, 2021



Description: In this Christmas mystery, lawyer Andy Carpenter and his golden retriever, Tara, are on the beat after a body turns up in the snow and a journalist is the prime suspect.

Christmas has come early to the town of Paterson, New Jersey, in the form of a snowstorm that dumps two feet of snow on the ground. Lawyer Andy Carpenter likes snow – white Christmas and all that – but it can cause problems for the walks he takes his dogs on every day.

When Andy's golden retriever, Tara, goes to play in the snow and instead discovers a body, Andy ends up on the phone with the local newspaper editor. The murder victim is Mayor Alex Oliva, who had an infamous relationship with the newspaper. Last year a young reporter published an expose, and Oliva had him fired for libel. Now, the young reporter – and prime suspect – is in need of a lawyer.

Andy agrees to take the case, though it's not looking good this holiday season. The evidence is piling up faster than the snow in Best in Snow, the next Christmas mystery in the bestselling Andy Carpenter series from David Rosenfelt.

My Thoughts:  I absolutely loved this book. It's not my typical crime thriller mystery books that I read but I thoroughly enjoyed it. My only regret is that it took me so long to complete it. I was hoping to have it completed before Christmas of 2021 but life got in the way. 

Best in Snow is a cozy mystery set during the Christmas season. Andy Carpenter is a lawyer who is wealthy and doesn't necessarily need to work but still does. He takes the case of the prime suspect, who is a young reporter, as a favor for a friend of his. Andy doesn't really want to take the case but ends up doing so after having met the reporter in the hospital. 

Andy has to piece together what actually happens as the young reporter is not much help. The young reporter has been charged with the murder of Mayor Alex Oliva who he wrote an expose on that later got him fired. 

This is truly a cozy mystery from the very beginning and of course its set during Christmas time, so its not going to be too gruesome. One of Andy's dogs finds Mayor Alex Oliva and as you read through the story you will hear a lot about Andy's dogs and even the reporters dogs. I found that the parts about the dogs added some great humor at times

I thought that all of the characters were very relatable and each event that unravels as the story progresses seemed realistic to me. Nothing was too far fetched and David Rosenfelt gives you just enough to make you want to keep reading to figure out what really happened to Mayor Alex Oliva.

Rating: 5 out of 5 as I thoroughly enojoyed Best in Snow. I enjoyed it so much that I already have my next David Rosenfelt book in my to be read (TBR) pile. I can't wait to get to it. I just wish my TBR was not so long at the moment.

About the Author: DAVID ROSENFELT is the Edgar-nominated and Shamus Award-winning author of more than twenty Andy Carpenter novels, including One Dog NightCollared, and Deck the Hounds; its spinoff series, The K-Team; the Doug Brock thriller series, which starts with Fade to Black; and stand-alone thrillers including Heart of a Killer and On Borrowed Time. Rosenfelt and his wife live in Maine with an ever-changing pack of rescue dogs. Their epic cross-country move with 25 of these dogs, culminating in the creation of the Tara Foundation, is chronicled in Dogtripping. --This text refers to the paperback edition.

Many thanks to Minotaur Books for this review copy. This is my honest opinion.

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