Dog on It

Chet is not only a dog, he's Bernie's partner at the Little detective agency. And more importantly he's the narrator of the story.

Having a dog telling the story makes for an interesting ride: he doesn't understand everything, falls asleep during conversations and have his own set of priorities. And then there's the problem of communicating with humans. Because Chet is not the kind of dog who can read, uses morse code to communicate or other humanizations that can be often found in books where an animal investigates.

I really enjoyed that book and will read the next hoping this was not only the novelty of the tone that hooked me. Seeing how people talked about the author at Bouchercon, I guess it was not just a fluke.