I don’t want to read about politics or viruses. I don’t know about you but lately I find myself using slightly different criteria to select my next book. It's total lunacy, but it works, and they are a happy, safe group. Our own home quickly became a sanctuary for those dogs that we rescued that were too old or sickly to be wanted by others. We rescued almost 4,000 dogs, many of them Goldens, and found them loving homes. It's safe to say that their impact on the American cultural scene has been minimal.Ībout fourteen years ago, my wife and I started the Tara Foundation, named in honor of the greatest Golden Retriever the world has ever known.

I wrote and sold a bunch of feature films, none of which ever came close to being actually filmed, and then a bunch of TV movies, some of which actually made it to the small screen. I did manage to find the time to marry and have two children, both of whom are doing very well, and fortunately neither have inherited my eccentricities.Ī number of years ago, I left the movie marketing business, to the sustained applause of hundreds of disgruntled producers and directors. The movie landscape is filled with the movies I buried for every 'Rambo', 'The Natural' and 'Rocky', there are countless disasters.

It set me off on a climb up the executive ladder, culminating in my becoming President of Marketing for Tri-Star Pictures. I was stunningly brilliant at a job interview with my uncle, who was President of United Artists, and was immediately hired. I graduated NYU, then decided to go into the movie business.

By comparison, 'Ozzie and Harriet's' clan seemed bizarre. laughed around the dinner table, and generally had a good time. The middle of three brothers, loving parents, a middle-class home in Paterson, New Jersey. I have gotten to this dubious position with absolutely no planning, and at no stage in my life could I have predicted it. As much as Andy doesn't want to get involved-anything to avoid a new case-he can't help but come to the rescue of a man who'd risk everything, even his life, to reunite with his dog. The man claims his life is in danger, and that's why he disappeared. But when the murdered man contacts Beth, asking for his dog back, Andy knows there must be more to the story. But when a friend asks him for a favor that involves both dogs and his lawyerly expertise, he can't say no.Īndy's friend Beth has found a stray that seems to have belonged to a murder victim-in fact, the man and two of his colleagues died in an explosion a few weeks ago. He'd rather spend his time working with the Tara Foundation, his dog rescue organization, and being with his family and his two dogs, Tara and Sebastian. In David Rosenfelt's newest Andy Carpenter mystery, Muzzled, Andy and his beloved golden retriever, Tara, are back on the case as a favor to a friend.Īndy Carpenter is a lawyer who would rather not practice law.

Muzzled by David Rosenfelt