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    The Little Dog Laughed

    By Joseph Hansen

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    While investigating a suicide, Dave Brandstetter discovers a dead reporter’s final scoop
    Adam Streeter has covered international crises from Siberia to Cambodia. When disaster strikes, he grabs his battered typewriter and hops on a plane, hurling himself into danger wherever the story demands. He is brave, talented, and internationally renown—so why would he turn a pistol on himself? Insurance investigator Dave Brandstetter has seen enough suicides to know that a journalist this successful would never take his own life. Suspecting treachery, he digs into Adam’s last story—an unpublished investigation into the whereabouts of a vanished South American strongman, called El Carnicero,the Butcher—and Adam’s death shows every hallmark of his bloody style. To finish Adam’s investigation, Dave will have to make like a war correspondent and leap into the line of fire.  The Little Dog Laughed is book eight in the Dave Brandstetter Mystery series, which also includes Troublemaker and The Man Everybody Was Afraid Of.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Media
    Release dateMay 28, 2013
    ISBN9781480416840
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    • 4/5
      Dave Brandstetter keeps getting mixed up in bigger and bigger problems and conspiracies, all springing from his usual work. Wow. I kind of want him to go back to the smaller cases -- they were still dangerous, but not as dangerous as this. It's kind of stretching my suspension of disbelief, at this point.

      I like Cecil more than Doug, and I just put my finger on why: he's a part of Dave's work as well. He'll help him with cases, he'll come and get him out of trouble if he can, even at the risk of his own life. We see more of him. His relationship with Dave is more satisfying.

      I'm hoping to see more of Chrissie after this book, given the development on the very last page.
    • 5/5
      The Little Dog Laughed, the eight Dave Brandstetter mysteries, takes the likeable insurance death claims investigator on a very different mission. While he fairly soon confirms that the death an internationally famous news reporter is murder to the satisfaction of the insurance company; he remains on the case in order to find the real culprits, believing the man the police have arrested for the crime to be innocent. Dave soon finds himself on dangerous ground as he becomes involved with politics and terrorism.Along with the intricate plot we have Dave’s interesting private life to follow too. One very appealing aspect of this is that over the series of these mysteries Dave grows older as in real time parallel with the original publication of the novels, in addition to the advances in technology, we find that Dave is no longer young and agile, and while he maintains his good looks and trim appearance he is beginning to feel the years; but he still has his admirers including, so far, the lithe young black guy who shares his life and bed.