Another entertaining entry in David Rosenfelt's Andy Carpenter mystery series, Best In Snow (#1,062) is nominally a Christmas novel, but like Andy Carpenter, you hardly notice the holiday stuck into the plot. If you are a regular reader of this series, you will already know that Andy's golden retriever, Tara, is the most amazing dog who has ever lived. She usually serves as a sounding board for Andy on the long walks he takes with his three dogs, but in Best In Snow, Tara is the one who finds the first body in the park, buried under a foot of snow.
After Andy calls his friend, Pete Stanton, head of the Paterson, New Jersey, homicide squad and 911, the police discover that the victim is none other than Alex Oliva, mayor of Paterson. Before Andy even makes it back home, Vince Sanders, editor of the local paper, and the third member of the trio who regularly meet for burgers and beer at Charlies's Sports Bar, calls, asking Andy to defend Bobby Nash, an ex-reporter. Nash was fired over a news article published defaming the late mayor, and has already been arrested by the police for his murder. The problem is, Bobby Nash was fished out of a wrecked car at the bottom of a ditch will multiple broken bones, a heavy concussion, and enough drugs in his body to have killed the average person. He has no recollection of the murder he supposedly committed, but the police claim to have ironclad evidence. Has Andy finally landed the case he cannot win?
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