Dead Center by David Rosenfelt

I love the irreverent wit of Andy Carpenter,  a lawyer and the main character of this novel! And the fact that he’s devoted to his golden retriever doesn’t hurt either. The plot centers around a small town in Wisconsin with a closed society whose citizens all belong to the same religion. When two teenage girls from the town are murdered, Carpenter is called in to defend a teenage boy from outside the town charged with the crime.

This is definitely not high brow fiction but I so enjoyed the witty writing and the likable characters, I’m definitely planning to read some of the earlier novels in this series.