SUDDEN DEATH

Just as Joe Mantegna IS Spenser, and Judy Kaye IS Kinsey Millhone, Grover Gardner, with his deadpan reserve, IS Andy Carpenter, the self-deprecating mystery-solving, dog-loving millionaire defense attorney. This time around there's plenty of craziness as Carpenter attempts to clear a pro football player of murder, all the while being followed by a screenwriter who wants to make a true-story movie of the events (if only he could give an "arc" to Carpenter's life). This is Rosenfelt's fourth Andy Carpenter mystery and the second to make it to audiobook, so it's time to make a plea: Whoever is in charge . . . let Gardner read the other two, pronto. R.W.S. © AudioFile 2001, Portland, Maine [Published: DEC 05/ JAN 06]