The next novel in David Rosenfelt’s witty, heartfelt mystery seriesfeaturing lawyer Andy Carpenter and his faithful golden retriever, Tara.LawyerAndy Carpenter’s true passion is the Tara Foundation, the dog rescueorganization he runs with his friend Willie Miller. All kinds of dogsmake their way to the foundation, and it isn’t that surprising to find adog abandoned at the shelter one morning, though it was accompanied by amysterious anonymous note. But they are quite surprised when they scanthe dog’s embedded chip, and discover that they know this dog. He is the“DNA dog.”Two and a half years ago, Jill Hickman was a singlemother of an adopted baby. Her baby and dog were kidnapped in broaddaylight in Eastside Park, and they haven’t been seen since. A tip camein that ID’d a former boyfriend of Hickman’s, Keith Wachtel, as thekidnapper. A search of his house showed no sign of the child but diduncover more incriminating evidence, and the clincher that generatedWachtel’s arrest was some dog hair, notable since Wachtel did not have adog. DNA tests showed conclusively that the hair belonged to Hickman’sdog. Wachtel was convicted of kidnapping, but the dog and baby werenever found.Now, with the reappearance of the dog, the case isbrought back to light, and the search for the child renewed. Goaded byhis wife’s desire to help a friend and fellow mother and Andy’s desireto make sure the real kidnapper is in jail, Andy and his team enter thecase. But what they start to uncover is far more complicated and