by Spencer Quinn
Libby audiobook 2 hours
Read by Jim Frangione
Published: 2022
Genre: detective stories
This book had three stories: Upper Story, The Iggy Papers, and The Numbers After Two. I love Chet's (the dog) POV but remembered what I DON'T like about Quinn's character of Bernie.
Upper Story was fairly short. Chet is working a case with Rick Torres because Bernie's in the hospital. The police work is great, but the good part of the story is when they visit Bernie in the hospital and the nurse shares that the prognosis isn't good. Rick and Chet should say goodbye. But Chet's nose tells him a different story. With one doggy kiss, Bernie wakes up.
The Iggy Papers was a longer story with the sweet old neighbors the Parsons looking for palliative care with a new invention - the Galaxatron. Bernie and Chet do some investigating and send Nixon to act as a potential patient. I loved this story!!! Great detective work and a great outcome.
The Numbers After Two made me crazy! I had to keep pausing it as I drove because it was so stupid! The first part, with Chet and Bernie finding two crying kids in the canyon and getting them back to their parents was good. The parents giving Bernie thousands of dollars cash reward was fine . . . and having it be $10,000 instead of $5,000 was amazing.
But then Bernie falls victim to a scammer. The stupidest, most gullible crap I've ever heard / read. . . His intelligence and detective abilities didn't let him see a con artist right in front of his face? The ongoing joke about their finances being a mess - the Hawaiian pants in a storage unit, the tin futures that were wrecked by an earthquake, . . . it's so frustrating! He basically gives the scammer $5,000 and gets NOTHING (not even a phone number) in return. Then he donates the other $5,000 to a random homeless man. Ugh! Bernie is too stupid to be a protagonist in these stories!
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