One Dog Night

Everyone's favorite Golden Retriever-aficionado, who practices law when he absolutely has to, is back. At this point in the series, the trick is coming up with something compelling enough to get Andy to take a case – this book just might have the strongest motivating factor in the series.

From there we get one of the more gruesome and devastating crimes in this series (but thankfully, we're years removed from it, so we don't have to read much about the details), and one of the more widespread and reaching conspiracies this side of Robert Langdon (but in a book that's far better written and entertaining)

The gang's all here, even if Willie's only seen briefly and off in a storyline all his own (not sure I got the point of it, but it didn't detract from the main story), and I'm getting used to Andy's new co-counsel (though I don't think he'll truly replace the last one). This may contain Sam's greatest moment – only to be eclipsed a couple chapters later by something greater (alas, minor spoiler: no song talking). The courtroom antics were solid and entertaining – even when things aren't going Andy's (or the client's) way. The twists and turns kept coming, resulting in an ending I never saw coming.