Andy Carpenter's accountant, Sam Willis, is stunned when a high school friend he hasn't heard from in years calls pleading for help. Barry Price needs Sam's financial acumen and Andy's legal expertise - immediately. On his way to Barry's house, Sam can't ignore an injured dog lying in the road. And by the time he gets there, Barry has taken off on a private plane. Sam and Andy turn their attention to dog - until they learn that Barry's plane has crashed....

Richard Kilmer is an ordinary man forced unwittingly to play a terrible game. After proposing to his love, Jennifer Ryan, they take a drive up to Kendrick Falls. Rumor has is that no man has ever gone to the falls with Jen and come back the same. Richard is no exception. Halfway up the mountain, Richard loses control of his car, and it rolls. Richard is shaken, but Jen is gone. Completely missing. He can’t find her, and neither can the police...

Nominated for the Edgar and Shamus Awards, David Rosenfelt’s debut novel, Open and Shut, was widely praised by readers and critics. Now Rosenfelt returns with a riveting new mystery, First Degree, featuring irreverent and dynamic lawyer Andy Carpenter… When a cop’s body is found burned and decapitated, the last thing Andy Carpenter expected is for a stranger to waltz into his office and admit to the crime. For the wise-cracking millionaire...

When a drunken stranger confides in him that he had killed a young woman some three months earlier, Tim Wallace, already suspected of having murdered his wife, suddenly finds his life put under a microscope by the police.

"After getting shot in the line of duty, New Jersey state police officer Doug Brock has been busy rebuilding his life. He's reunited with his fiance and started to get some of his memories back. He hopes he can continue to recover with the help of an amnesia support group and that the damage from his past isn't permanent. It isn't until fellow group member Sean Conner approaches him after a meeting that Doug realizes the trouble is just beginning....

Defense lawyer Andy Carpenter is reluctant to take on any more cases. He'd much rather spend his time working for his dog rescue organization, the Tara Foundation, than find himself back in a courtroom. However, when a truck carrying over seventy dogs from the South to the rescue-friendly northeast turns up with a murdered driver, Andy can't help but get involved. Of course Andy is eager to help the dogs, many of whom come to the Tara Foundation while...

His streak of murder case acquittals made him a regular on cable talk shows. His recent $22 million inheritance bought him a dog rescue operation named the Tara Foundation after his own beloved golden retriever. Yet after turning down cases left and right, Andy Carpenter thinks he's facing a midlife crisis. He knows he needs to get back to some real work as fast as a felonious world will allow.When a friend, a newspaper owner, calls in a favor and...

Andy Carpenter gets a mysterious phone call from his friend, policeman Pete Stanton, asking him to drop everything and drive to an unfamiliar address with his girlfriend. Andy isn't expecting to show up at a crime scene where Pete has just discovered the body of ex-convict Danny Diza. Or that Pete wants Andy and Laurie to take care of Danny's now orphaned eight-year-old son and basset hound. Or that Pete will become a suspect in the murder.

Just days away from being honored with a seat on the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, Judge Daniel Brennan is brutally stabbed to death in his garage. In the immediate aftermath, an army of media and law enforcement agents descend on the case, with thousands of tips pouring in from the public. When one, in particular, leads New Jersey policeman Luke Somers to suspect Steven Gallagher, Somers is made a hero for having solved the case. But Chris Gallagher...

"Corey Douglas and his K-9 partner, Simon Garfunkel, have recently retired from the police force. Not ready to give up the life yet, they come up with a proposal for fellow former cop, Laurie Carpenter, and her investigating partner, Marcus. Laurie and Marcus - who help out Laurie's lawyer husband Andy on cases - have been chafing to jump back into investigating on their own, so they are in. They call themselves the K Team, in honor of Simon. Their...