This was the second book I read in this series, and I found it to be quite enjoyable, even better than the first.
Rosenfelt starts with a bang (almost literally) and while the high intensity obviously can't continue through the whole book, he keeps it interesting. Waggy, the Bernese Mountain Dog pictured on the front cover, brings liveliness to the book because the lawyer/dog-lover protagonist isn't used to having a high-energy puppy in his home with his Golden Retriever (also pictured) long into her adulthood.
The crime in this book is a recent one, so Carpenter (the lawyer/dog-lover) is able to take a more active role in investigating to get his client cleared, though the evidence against him appears insurmountable. I was definitely kept guessing as to how things would turn out in the end, because there were many twists and turns.
I had one lone complaint with the book, and it was a silly one. At one point someone gets shot in the thigh, and according to the book, the only injury is that the victim's carotid artery is severed. I'm no expert in ballistics, but I cannot figure out where the shooter was positioned such that the bullet enters the thigh and pierces an artery in the neck without damaging anything in between.