David Rosenfelt Books in Order

Defense attorney Andy Carpenter is asked by his father, a legendary ex‑D.A., to handle the death‑row appeal of Willie Miller, then watches his father die suddenly and inherit an unexpected fortune. A decades‑old photograph and anonymous threats push Andy to uncover buried political secrets before his client is executed.

When a corrupt cop is found decapitated, Andy Carpenter turns down the man who confesses and instead agrees to defend his investigator—and new love—Laurie Collins, who’s suddenly charged with the crime. To clear her, he has to outmaneuver the police and spring a risky trap in court.

Andy agrees to protect Daniel Cummings, a young reporter being used as the mouthpiece for a serial killer who phones in taunting clues. When Daniel is caught near the latest victim’s body and evidence piles up, Andy must prove his client isn’t the murderer while dodging threats himself.

New York Giants star running back Kenny Schilling is charged with killing a rival Jets receiver, and the media frenzy makes Andy Carpenter’s defense the case of the season. Digging into the violent world behind professional football, Andy uncovers a pattern of murders tied to a long‑hidden secret.

Andy leaves Paterson for small‑town Wisconsin when his ex‑girlfriend Laurie Collins, now acting police chief, begs him to defend a young man accused of killing two college students. The trail leads to an insular religious community called Center City, where loyalty and silence may be hiding a killer.

After Andy saves a golden retriever from being euthanized, he learns the dog is actually Reggie, believed dead years earlier in a notorious murder case. Convinced the wrong man went to prison, Andy reopens the file and follows a trail of government secrets and impersonations that puts him in the crosshairs.

Still grieving his wife’s death in a boating accident, Tim Wallace is barely functioning when a drunk stranger at a bar confides he’s committed a murder and tells Tim where to find the body. When the confession proves real, Tim becomes the prime suspect and must unravel who set him up and why.

Andy is appointed temporary guardian of Waggy, a Bernese mountain dog at the center of a bitter inheritance fight between a murdered businessman’s son and his glamorous widow. When the widow’s home explodes and the son is accused of murder, Andy must protect both client and dog from someone desperate to silence them.

A one‑legged ex‑soldier and his German shepherd, Milo, are caught at the scene of a killing tied to a murky incident in Iraq. Andy takes their case and soon finds himself mired in military secrets, terrorist rumors, and a dog who literally holds the key evidence to the conspiracy.

Local reporter Chris Turley dreams of matching his legendary father’s career, then becomes an instant hero after surviving and rescuing victims from a downtown explosion. As scoops keep falling into his lap from an anonymous source, Chris realizes someone is orchestrating both the disasters and his newfound fame—and that he’s next on the list.

Magazine writer Richard Kilmer proposes to Jennifer Ryan, then watches her vanish after a car accident on a remote mountain road. No one else remembers Jen exists, and every piece of evidence says Richard imagined her, but his search for the truth uncovers a deadly game built on stolen identities and buried experiments.

Six years after a deadly arson, recovering addict Noah Galloway is arrested and all but resigned to punishment—until he reveals he once owned Andy’s dog, Tara. Feeling indebted, Andy digs into the old fire and uncovers a far‑reaching plot that makes Noah look more pawn than monster.

New Jersey cop Luke Somers is celebrated for shooting the prime suspect in the grisly murder of a prominent judge. Then the dead man’s brother kidnaps Luke’s own sibling and demands that Luke clear the case within days, forcing him to question everything about the investigation and dig for a killer the system missed.

Young lawyer Jamie Wagner coasts at a big firm until he’s assigned to Sheryl Harrison, serving thirty years for killing her abusive husband. When Sheryl’s teenage daughter needs a heart transplant and Sheryl volunteers to be the donor, Jamie must prove her innocence fast enough to free her—and save the girl’s life.

Andy has always believed Joey Desimone, a client with mob family ties, was wrongly convicted of murder. A visit to Joey’s aging uncle shakes loose a cryptic comment that hints at hidden evidence, sending Andy into a world of omertà, old grudges, and dangerous truths that could finally clear Joey—or get Andy killed.

This memoir chronicles Rosenfelt and his wife’s cross‑country move from California to Maine with twenty‑five rescue dogs, three RVs, and a caravan of volunteers. Between road‑trip disasters, he tells the story of how they fell into dog rescue and built the Tara Foundation one hard‑to‑place dog at a time.

Andy’s accountant, Sam Willis, is summoned by an old friend who hints at something too dangerous to discuss on the phone. After Sam stops to help an injured dog and misses a private flight that later crashes, Andy realizes Sam was meant to die and follows the trail into corporate intrigue and murder.

Called to a crime scene by cop friend Pete Stanton, Andy finds a murdered ex‑con, the man’s young son, and a loyal basset hound upstairs. When Pete is charged with the killing, Andy defends him while protecting the boy and dog, only to discover the victim’s past reaches further than anyone guessed.

In a small Maine town, a hurricane uncovers a time capsule filled with eerily accurate predictions of past tragedies—including a murder that sent Katie Sanford’s husband to prison. As more of the foretold disasters occur, newspaper editor Katie and police chief Jake Robbins race to stop the next one and learn who wrote the list.

State trooper Doug Brock wakes from a coma with ten years of his memory gone, including his investigation into crime boss Nicholas Bennett. As he retraces his own steps, Doug realizes he was close to exposing a looming terror plot and has to stop it again without remembering how he got there the first time.

In a series of personal, often funny essays, Rosenfelt reflects on the golden retriever Tara and the many rescue dogs who followed, sharing what they taught him about loyalty, patience, relationships, and why humans should always expect to lose the battle for bed space.

A shepherd mix named Cheyenne is stolen from the Tara Foundation and later found guarding the corpse of her dognapper. What looks like a simple revenge killing pulls Andy into a tangle involving stolen diamonds, a missing chemist, and a plot that stretches far beyond Paterson.

Through a prison dog‑training program, Andy befriends inmate Brian Atkins and his fox terrier, Boomer. When Brian stages a clever escape with Boomer’s help and soon after is seen fleeing a double homicide, Andy takes his case, convinced the soft‑spoken fraudster is being framed for something much uglier.

Andy happily agrees to defend his friend Pups Boyer, who fosters litters of puppies and is cited for having too many dogs just before Christmas. When the complaining neighbor turns up murdered and Pups becomes the prime suspect, Andy must clear her name while twelve puppies run interference.

An abandoned border collie dropped at the Tara Foundation turns out to be the long‑missing “DNA dog” from a notorious kidnapping in which a baby and family pet vanished. With the dog back and the old conviction in doubt, Andy reopens the case to hunt for the child and the real abductor.

During the holidays, Andy befriends a homeless man and his dog outside a restaurant, only to see the man later accused of killing a wealthy neighbor. Investigating out of sheer stubbornness, Andy uncovers a scheme built on stolen identities, staged charity, and people willing to kill to protect a secret.

Recovering from his injuries and amnesia, Doug Brock attends a support group and meets Sean Conner, who’s found a scrapbook of a murder victim in his attic but doesn’t know why he made it. Helping Sean reopen the cold case, Doug discovers unsettling links to his own forgotten past.

A truck hauling more than seventy rescue dogs north arrives with its driver murdered and Laurie’s ex‑fiancé, an ex‑Marine, accused of the crime. As Andy juggles marital unease and a courtroom fight, he must protect both the animals and a man who insists he was only trying to help them.

Andy’s vet reveals that a healthy French bulldog, Truman, was dropped off with instructions to be euthanized by a man who wasn’t his owner. When Truman’s real owner is found murdered, Andy takes in the dog and follows a trail through mob enforcers and hit lists to find out who wanted Truman silenced.

When DNA from a reopened murder case points to a suspect Doug Brock cleared before he was shot, he has to reconstruct an investigation he can’t remember. A taunting killer claims to have many more victims planned, forcing Doug to confront both a serial murderer and his own past mistakes.

A Christmas wish tree leads Andy to Danny, a boy who asks Santa for a coat for his mom, a sweater for his dachshund, and his missing father’s return. When the father is arrested for a fourteen‑year‑old murder, Andy takes the case, trying to give Danny the reunion he longs for.

Andy agrees to help when a friend finds a stray tied to a fatal yacht explosion that supposedly killed a tech entrepreneur and his colleagues. After the “dead” man contacts her asking for his dog back, Andy realizes someone staged a disappearance—and that whoever is behind it is still hunting loose ends.

Fresh off an unwanted Caribbean cruise, Andy is pulled into defending Glenn Anson, an old cellmate of his partner Willie, who’s been arrested for murder. As he digs, Andy finds links to organized crime, past loyalties, and a holiday season that’s anything but peaceful.

Retired cop Corey Douglas teams up with his German shepherd partner Simon Garfunkel, fellow ex‑officer Laurie Collins, and silent enforcer Marcus Clark to launch a private‑investigation firm. Their first case comes from a respected judge being blackmailed, and the K Team quickly learns the threats reach far beyond embarrassment.

The K Team takes on a cold case close to Corey’s heart: the murder of a woman he once tried—and failed—to protect from an abusive boyfriend. Convinced the same man killed her, Corey and his partners dig into old evidence and fresh danger to prove what the original investigation missed.

After a heavy snowstorm in Paterson, Tara uncovers the body of the city’s controversial mayor. A young reporter who once wrote a damaging exposé on him becomes the main suspect, and Andy steps in to defend the journalist as political grudges and fresh bodies pile up.

On a routine dog‑walk with Tara and Sebastian, Andy and Laurie witness a man savagely beating his dog and a stranger stepping in with equal force. When that stranger, Matthew Jantzen, is arrested and revealed to be wanted for murder, Andy agrees to defend the dog‑lover and uncovers a far bigger crime.

Hired by the Paterson Police Department’s new cold case unit, the K Team investigates the disappearance of two people who vanished from a college reunion years earlier. As Corey, Laurie, Marcus, and K‑9 Simon follow the trail, they uncover organized crime ties and secrets some classmates would still kill to keep buried.

A year after placing an older chow, Lion, with recently widowed Rachel Morehouse, Andy is asked to take the dog if anything happens to her. When Rachel is murdered and her stepson is charged, Andy must untangle family business rivalries and a fortune that gives plenty of people motive.

The Tara Foundation is overrun with an unexpected litter of puppies, happily fostered by new staffer Chris Myers—a man who once went to prison for a crime he swears he didn’t commit. When a key witness against him is murdered and Chris is arrested, Andy fights to clear his name before Christmas.

During the Tara Foundation’s big holiday party, foster volunteer Derek Moore is arrested for murder. Andy learns Derek—really Bobby—is in witness protection after testifying against his old gang, and the case forces Andy to juggle mob grudges, new dogs in the house, and a client who may still be a target.

Andy’s high‑school girlfriend Jenny Nichols is now a famous actress whose tiny poodle, a Tara Foundation alum, is practically a celebrity. When a fellow actor is murdered on set and Jenny is arrested, Andy shuttles between Hollywood and Paterson to defend her while show‑business secrets and jealousies come to light.

Corey chooses a case that haunts him: the deaths of his former mentor Jimmy Dietrich and a local woman, written off as a murder‑suicide and left unsolved for years. With the K Team’s help, he works to clear Jimmy’s name and reveal the real killer behind the bodies pulled from the Passaic River.

Andy discovers that his taciturn investigator Marcus quietly mentors at‑risk young men, and brings two of them to the Tara Foundation to adopt dogs. When a mass shooting at one boy’s workplace leaves him accused of the crime, Marcus asks Andy to take the case, leading to buried histories and gang violence.

Returning from a rare family vacation, Andy finds an extra dog waiting at home—Murphy, a former foster now owned by college student BJ Bremer. When BJ is arrested for murdering a professor and Murphy has gone missing, Andy trusts the young man’s devotion to his dog and digs into campus rivalries and secrets.

Two years after a deadly office‑building gas explosion, the owner blamed by survivor Jeff Wheeler is found murdered, and Jeff is arrested. Remembering Jeff’s courage in saving a dog named Rufus, Andy takes the case, trying to reunite man and dog while unraveling who really profited from the earlier tragedy.

Set before the main series, this prequel finds Andy Carpenter quitting his job as a prosecutor and opening a tiny defense practice. A visit to a shelter introduces him to golden retriever Tara and beagle Sunny—and to Sunny’s owner, Ryan Tierney, who’s been charged with blowing up his former boss’s car.

Andy’s hopes of retirement evaporate when Lou, an old friend who runs a rehab center, begs him to help a homeless veteran accused of murdering a wealthy dog lover. The deeper Andy looks, the more he suspects the truth is tangled up in money, addiction, and people willing to exploit both.