Title: Citizen K-9Author: David Rosenfelt
Narrator: Fred Berman
Series: A K Team Novel
Genre: Mystery & Thrillers
Format: Audiobook
Listening Length: 5 hours 53 minutes
Date of Publication: March 15, 2022
Description: In Citizen K-9, bestselling author David Rosenfelt masterfully blends mystery with dogs and humor to create an investigative team that readers will be rooting for book after book.
The Paterson Police Department has created a cold case division, and they want to hire the private investigators known as the K Team to look into the crimes. After all, Corey Douglas and his K-9 partner, German shepherd Simon Garfunkel, recently retired from the force. Plus, another K Team member, Laurie Collins, used to be a cop as well.
Their first cold case hits home for the K Team. A decade ago, at Laurie's tenth high school reunion, two of their friends simply… vanished. At the time Laurie had just left the force, and Corey was in a different department, so they had no choice but to watch from the sidelines. With no leads, the case went cold.
As the team starts to delve deeper into the events leading up to that night—reopening old wounds along the way—the pieces start to come together. But someone wants to stop them from uncovering the truth behind the disappearance, by any means necessary.
My Thoughts: I have read one David Rosenfelt book before this one and quite enjoyed it. This is my first K-team novel. I found this to be a slow book and at times I feel like checked out from the audiobook. This is because I was not being drawn into the story. It had a good premise but it felt a bit dragged out for me.
I am also confused as to what really happened in the story and why it is called Citizen K-9. I felt like the German Shepard, Simon Garfunkel, of Corey Douglas's was under utilized in the story. To be honest, I actually forgot that there was a dog in the story named Simon. Andy Carpenter, who is a lawyer and was the primary character in the first David Rosenfelt book read is connected with a dog shelter and when I heard Andy's name that is when I first thought about dogs. Other than that, the thought of a dog did not really cross my mind until the very end.
It is at the very end of the story that David Rosenfelt ahs Corey Douglas recap the events of the story and it seems like Simon may have had a part near the end when t comes to possibly protecting Core's romantic partner. I think I missed it though because I found the story not to be engaging again.
I also managed to get some of the characters at times. found myself often confusing Corey's romantic partner, Danny, with his private investigator partner Laurie.
As far as the narration goes, it took me a while to get into Fred Berman. I thought that Fred did a good job on the accents and the changing of voices for male versus female characters. At first, I was not fond of Fred's reading but after some time went on I found that it grew on me.
Rating: 3 out of 5 stars because I found myself checking out of the story multiple times. I liked the premise of the book but felt like it was dragged on and the title of the book didn't really make sense to me in regard to how the story played out.
I will certainly be checking out more David Rosenfelt books though. I certainly would consider myself one of his new reading fans.
About the Author: DAVID ROSENFELT is the Edgar-nominated and Shamus Award-winning author of more than twenty Andy Carpenter novels, including One Dog Night, Collared, 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.
Fred Berman is a five-time winner of the AudioFile Earphone Award for Audiobook Narration and the recipient of the 2013 Audie Award for narration in Spy the Lie. He has read a number of audiobooks for young listeners, including Judy Blume’s Soupy Saturdays with The Pain & The Great One and Andrew Clements’s The Last Holiday Concert. He has also narrated the audiobooks for Robert Kirkman’s popular series, The Walking Dead.
Berman is an accomplished actor of both the stage and screen as well, performing on Broadway as Timon in The Lion King and off-Broadway in Hamlet, Twelfth Night, and King Lear. On television, Berman has had roles on NBC’s hit series Smash as well as All My Children and Law and Order. He lives in New York City.
Many thanks to Macmillan Audio and Netgalley for this review copy. This is my honest opinion.
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