Spencer Quinn's It's a Wonderful Woof presents a holiday adventure for Chet the dog, "the most lovable narrator in crime fiction" (Boston Globe), and his human partner, PI Bernie Little.
Holiday
time in the Valley, and in the holiday spirit--despite the dismal shape
of the finances at the Little Detective Agency--Bernie refers a
potential client to Victor Klovsky, a fellow private eye. It's also true
that the case--promising lots of online research but little
action--doesn't appeal to Bernie, while it seems perfect for Victor, who
is not cut out for rough stuff. But Victor disappears in a rough-stuff
way, and when he doesn't show up at his mom's to light the Hanukkah
candles, she hires Chet and Bernie to find him.
They soon
discover that Victor's client has also vanished. The trail leads to the
ruins of a mission called uestra Señora de los Saguaros, dating back to
the earliest Spanish explorers. Some very dangerous people are
interested in the old mission. Does some dusty archive hold the secret
of a previously unknown art treasure, possibly buried for centuries?
What does the Flight into Egypt--when Mary, Joseph and the baby Jesus
fled Herod--have to do with saguaros, the Sonoran desert cactus?
No
one is better than Chet at nosing out buried secrets, but before he
can, he and Bernie are forced to take flight themselves, chased through a
Christmas Eve blizzard by a murderous foe who loves art all too much.
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Meet Chet, the wise and lovable canine narrator of the Chet & Bernie Mystery Series, who works alongside Bernie, a down-on-his-luck private investigator. Chet might have flunked out of police school (“I’d been the best leaper in K-9 class, which had led to all the trouble in a way I couldn’t remember exactly, although blood was involved”), but he’s a detective through and through. Readers will be instantly captivated by Chet’s doggy ways and his endearingly hard-boiled voice. Full of heart and occasionally prone to mischief, he is intensely loyal to Bernie, who, though distracted by issues that Chet has difficulty understanding—like divorce, cash flow, and child custody—is enormously likeable himself, in his flawed, all-too-human way. There’s genuine suspense and intrigue, combined with humor and deep insight into the bond between dog and man. From a dog’s-eye perspective, crime has never been so much fun
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