The Dog Who Knew Too Much

Chet and Bernie are back!  Yeah!!  Actually, they came back last fall, but I just now caught up with their latest shenanigans.  What?!  You say you don't know who Chet and Bernie are???? Well, let me fill you in...

The Dog Who Knew Too Much by Spencer Quinn features one of my MOST favorite teams of crack private investigators.  Bernie is ex-military, and he's an ethical, honorable and capable PI.  Chet is his dog.  Now, he's not just any dog, he is definitely Bernie's right hand man.  (Or right canine paw, if you will.) In fact, Chet is SO important that he is the one who tells the story, but sometimes he gets distracted by squirrels, other dogs, shiny things, smelly things, cats, people food, kibble...perhaps he has ADD.  Despite the obvious disadvantages of being a dog in a human world, he usually does have his hyper-sensitive nose pointed in the right direction, if only he could get Bernie to pay attention.

The Dog Who Knew Too Much finds Chet and Bernie in the mountains searching for a young hiker who's disappeared from the Big Bear Wilderness Camp. But a simple search and rescue mission soon turns into a rotten stew of greed, gold, drugs and dirty small-town cops. Things start to look grim for our heros, but Chet helps Bernie find his way out of the stickiest of situations. And then he'd lick that stickiness right off, because that's what dogs do.

Enjoy Chet and Bernie!  Can't wait for the next one...