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Book Review

’Twas The Bite Before completely innocent of the new charges, Carpenter must Chelsea.”
“It’s a Premier League game. Liverpool is playing
With his friend and client declaring himself to be
Christmas get to the truth about the “evidence” and find the real “They’re five hours ahead there. Are they playing at
killer. (He also takes on the responsibility of caring for midnight?”
By Nils A. Shapiro his friend/client’s two dogs while he is in prison.) This “I taped it.”
When I was trying to won’t be an easy case: The victim was found dead in the “You taped an English soccer game? Voluntarily?”
decide on an appropriate trunk of his client’s car, and his bloodstains on the client’s “Yup.” …
book to review for this clothing. It’s a well-told tale with a surprising, satisfying “Does it bother you that they score about once every
December column, several and credible ending. couple of months?
features on the cover of this What makes this book special is Rosenfelt’s writing “Nope.”
month’s selection attracted style. But there are so many reasons to love this author … “I watch along with him for a minute or so,
me: the obvious connection it is difficult to know where to begin. Most importantly, pretending to be interested, then I leave. I could watch
to the Christmas holiday, the his tongue-in-cheek humor will keep a grin on your face until someone scores, but by then Bobby’s trial might have
cute twist of the “Bite” for from first page to last. I kept thinking that he would make started. …
“Night” in the title and the a great writer for the Saturday Night Live TV show. “I can’t sugarcoat this or enter a state of denial … the
adorable Dalmatian with the Here, for example, are just a couple of examples early simple fact is that I have a son who prefers soccer to good
Gingerbread Man cookie in his mouth—an irresistible draw on when Andy Carpenter is describing how he feels about old American college football.
for the doggie lover I am. certain aspects of his family life. (I have omitted large “I am raising a Communist.”
What I did not realize until I arrived home, opened the book, sections of the text for lack of space here and substituted As if David Rosenfelt’s delightful writing style weren’t
noted the author’s credentials and began reading this novel ellipses. …) enough to have me join his vast base of admiring readers,
is that I had struck literary gold in my selection! Within the “I don’t like eggnog, and I don’t think anybody does. It’s how about the following: He and his wife live in Maine
first few pages I understood too thick and too sweet for my taste … like drinking melted with 25 of the 4,000 dogs they have rescued. Do I need
why David Rosenfelt has chewing gum. I just tried some again anyway and found to say more?
developed a massive fan base that sucking some of this batch through a straw requires
of readers for his more than either a serious pair of lungs or a hydraulic pump; it’s not *****
40 already published novels, nearly good enough to justify that amount of work.
over half of them about Andy “But the reason I doubt that anyone really likes it is On a doggie note, my
Carpenter, the same attorney that it’s only popular at Christmas. Good food or drink wife Linda and I will be
who stars in ’Twas The Bite should not require a holiday to justify consumption … I sharing our first holiday
Before Christmas. feel the same way about fruitcakes and candied yams; if season with Lacey, who
In this novel, Carpenter is you like them, eat them all year. Otherwise, I don’t want joined our family three
serving as defense attorney for to hear about them.” months ago. Lacey, a
a friend and excellent neighbor Or this passage about his son, Ricky. “teacup” Maltese who
who, shockingly, has been “Ricky is watching a soccer game. weighs just 3-1/2 pounds,
arrested and charged with “He likes soccer. will celebrate her first
the murder of a high-ranking “I’ve known this for a while, but it’s still jarring. I’m birthday on December 20,
mobster. It turns out that his a good parent, so as much as I hate soccer and hate even and is already completely
friend, to the surprise of Carpenter and everyone else in town, more that he likes it, I’m not about to say anything or bonded with my wife Linda,
has been living among them as part of the government’s witness be critical. He has to live his own life and make his own as you can see here.
protection program after having earlier been a part of the mob choices, even a ridiculous one like this.
but who “turned” and gave evidence at great personal risk. “What are you watching, Rick?”

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