New Releases by Spencer Quinn

Hoping to bring some Tinseltown money to the Valley, the mayor lures a movie studio to town to shoot their next production, a big-budget classic Western. The star is none other than ruggedly handsome - and notoriously badly behaved - Thad Perry. When the mayor decides that someone needs to keep an eye on Thad, P.I. Bernie Little and his canine sidekick Chet are handpicked for the job. The money is good - but something smells fishy. (Bestseller).

Chet and Bernie—everybody’s favorite human-canine detective team—are asked by a beautiful woman to find evidence that would put her cheating boyfriend in the doghouse in this e-original short story from New York Times bestselling author Spencer Quinn.

In the sixth installment in the New York Times bestselling mystery series that the Los Angeles Times called “nothing short of masterful,” Chet and Bernie are handed a hard case in the Big Easy. Chet and Bernie, the best canine/human P.I. team in the business, encounter a prison work crew that includes Frenchie Boutette, an old pal they sent up the river. Frenchie begs Bernie to go find his brother Ralph, a reclusive inventor who has disappeared—along with his houseboat—from the bayou. Not long after, Bernie fends off a deadly attack from a member of a shadowy gang called the Q’s. The attacker dies without revealing anything. In bayou country, Chet and Bernie meet the no-good Boutette family and their ancient enemies, the maybe-even-worse Robideaus. At first it looks like Ralph’s disappearance is tied to a dispute between the two families over a load of stolen shrimp. But Chet turns up a buried clue that sends them in a new and dangerous direction involving the oil business. The more they find out about Ralph and what he knew, the less their chances of surviving to do anything about it. Now they’re up against Big Oil, shadowy black ops figures, and the Q’s—plus Iko, a legendary bayou gator with a big appetite… A top-notch addition to the “deliciously addictive” (Publishers Weekly) series, The Sound and the Furry is an irresistibly suspenseful and humorous read that will keep you begging for more.

Chet and Bernie—everybody’s favorite human-canine detective team—return in an e-original short story that gives Chet’s best friend Iggy his moment in the spotlight. Iggy is a dog who doesn’t get out much, so it’s big news when elderly Mr. Parsons knocks on Bernie’s door to say that Iggy has vanished. In the search for Iggy, Chet and Bernie find Mrs. Parsons unconscious on her bedroom floor, in need of urgent medical care. But it’s only when they arrive at the hospital that things get really interesting. With a jewel thief making short work of hospital patients’ valuables, it seems that Iggy is not alone in disappearing right out from under somebody’s nose. Suspects are plentiful and witnesses are few. But when little Iggy reappears, tail wagging, it turns out he holds the key to solving the entire affair. In addition to a clever caper and the return of much beloved characters, this gem of a short story is a testament to the enduring power of friendship in all its forms: neighbor to neighbor, man to dog, dog to dog. Here is a treat you’ll devour in one sitting—rather like Chet with a juicy steak that’s been momentarily left unattended!

An eBook collection featuring the third and fourth novels in the irresistible New York Times bestselling mystery series featuring P.I. Bernie Little and his narrating sidekick Chet—“a canine Sam Spade full of joie de vivre” (Stephen King). Chet has smelled a lot of unusual things in his years as trusted companion and partner to Bernie, but nothing has prepared him for all the exotic scents he encounters in To Fetch a Thief, when an old-fashioned one-ring traveling circus comes to town. After Peanut, the headlining elephant, and her trainer go missing, the Little Detective Agency is hired to find out what has become of the duo. Soon Chet and Bernie are led south of the border in hot pursuit of some dangerously cool criminals and a decidedly uncooperative pachyderm. In The Dog Who Knew Too Much, Chet and Bernie take on the case of a boy who has vanished from a wilderness camp. The kid’s mother thinks her ex-husband snatched their son, but Chet’s always reliable nose leads Bernie in a new and dangerous direction. Meanwhile, matters at home get complicated when a stray puppy that looks suspiciously like Chet shows up. Affairs of the heart collide with a job that’s never been tougher, requiring our intrepid sleuths to trust each other even when circumstances—and a rival P.I.—conspire to keep them far apart.

I could smell him - or rather the booze on his breath - before he even opened the door, but my sense of smell is pretty good, probably better than yours. So begins this fabulous, funny new detective novel featuring Bernie, a slightly down-at-heel PI; and his off sider, Chet, a dog - and the captivating narrator of the story. Chet may have flunked out of police school (I''d been the best leaper in K-9 class, which had led to all the trouble in a way I couldn''t remember exactly, although blood was involved), but he''s just as much a detective as Bernie - superior, sometimes, in his insight into human foibles. In Dog On It, their first adventure, Chet and Bernie investigate the disappearance of a teenage girl who may or may not have been kidnapped, but who''s definitely gotten herself mixed up with some very unsavoury characters.

Chet é um cão inteligente e adorável. E apesar de ter sido reprovado na Academia de Polícia – afinal, ele não tem culpa de um gato ter atravessado seu caminho bem no meio da prova afinal -, é um detetive em todos os sentidos. Com seu faro poderoso, ele ajuda, entre um petisco e outro, seu parceiro Bernie Little a solucionar diversos casos, ao mesmo tempo que narra, de forma divertida e peculiar, suas tentativas de entender certos aspectos da vida humana. Em O farejador, primeiro livro da série best-seller do New York Times escrita pelo americano Spencer Quinn, que dedica a sua vida a narrar as aventuras desta incrível dupla, Chet e Bernie investigam o estranho desaparecimento da comportada adolescente e boa aluna, Madison Chambliss. Certo dia, ela não volta para casa depois da escola e deixa sua mãe prestes a enlouquecer. Proprietário da Agência de Detetives Little, o detetive Bernie aceita o caso imediatamente, mas logo o considera encerrado quando a jovem aparece sã e salva com uma história confusa, repleta de contradições. Isto até ela desaparecer pela segunda vez na mesma semana. A dupla de detetives decide então aprofundar a investigação, e sem um pedido de resgate, eles não estão totalmente convencidos de que se trata de um sequestro comum, mas de uma coisa os dois têm certeza: algo está cheirando mal. Durante as buscas por pistas em bares de motoqueiros e em lugares exóticos no deserto, a narrativa policial recebe uma pitada de romance quando Bernie se vê envolvido com Suzie, a bela repórter do Valley Tribune, que vem trabalhando em uma matéria sobre detetives particulares. Mas o momento não é o mais adequado: Bernie está lidando com um divórcio recente e a disputa pela guarda do filho – preocupações peculiares dos humanos que Chet não consegue compreender. Ainda assim, o cão mantém seu senso de humor e utiliza suas habilidades caninas para encontrar o rastro de Madison. A caçada, porém, os coloca em um grande perigo. Repleto de suspense e intriga, O farejador, confirma o que todos os fãs de cachorro suspeitavam havia muito tempo: os cães não são apenas mais divertidos do que humanos, mas também podem ser mais espertos.

The fifth installment in the New York Times bestselling mystery series that the Los Angeles Times says is “nothing short of masterful.” Everyone’s favorite detective team returns in a new adventure as canine narrator Chet and his human partner P.I. Bernie Little find that Hollywood has gone to the dogs. While Tinseltown bad boy Thad Perry is in town shooting a big-budget Western, Bernie and Chet have to keep him out of trouble. But soon they discover Thad has a mysterious connection to the Valley, and the only people who know his secrets keep turning up dead before they can talk. As Bernie’s love life goes long-distance and Chet’s late-night assignations give rise to an unexpected dividend, it’s all our two sleuths can do to keep the actor in their sights. Worst of all, Thad is a self-proclaimed cat person, and his feline friend Brando has taken an instant dislike to Chet. Like the winning books before it, this fifth book in the series combines a topnotch mystery with genuine humor and a perceptive take on the relationship between human and dog that will stay with you long after the case is solved.

Spencer Quinn’s first original e-short story reveals how everyone’s favorite detective duo—Chet the Dog and P.I. Bernie Little—came to meet before their first big case in Dog On It. As fans know, Chet first met Bernie on that fateful day when he flunked out of K-9 police school. The details of that day though have always remained a little vague (like so much in Chet’s doggy brain). All we know is that Chet had been the best leaper in his K-9 class, but for some reason he failed his final leaping test...and that a cat was involved...and that there was some blood. But whose? The test, the cat, the blood—all pieces of a puzzle that, when solved, will bring down a dangerous gang of thieves—and signal the start of a beautiful friendship. This fateful day has been alluded to in every book in the series, and now fans of Chet and Bernie will finally get to find out what actually happened. For these two beloved characters, it was something like love at first sight—and, for Chet, at first smell, too.

Chet nunca percebeu muito bem porque chumbou na escola de cães polícias. De resto, há muitas coisas que ele não entende. Como o facto de os seres humanos verterem água dos olhos quando estão perturbados ("especialmente as mulheres"). Ou de sentir um vento pelas costas sempre que abana a cauda. Mas Chet sabe que o dono é um detetive chamado Bernie. E percebe que os dois vão embarcar numa nova missão quando uma loura lhes bate à porta e pede para lhe encontrarem a filha - que pode ou não ter sido raptada. Rapidamente se veem envolvidos num caso muito mais complicado do que poderia parecer, e têm um perigoso grupo de gangsters russos à perna. O Estranho Caso da Rapariga Raptada apresenta-nos uma das mais originais duplas de detetives do romance contemporâneo. Bernie é o anti- herói, divorciado, sem um tostão no bolso e que se bate pela custódia do filho. Chet é o narrador canino, que tenta sem muito sucesso compreender os bizarros costumes humanos. Juntos oferecem-nos uma história onde não falta nada: humor, ritmo, uma intriga inteligente e um suspense arrepiante. E, sobretudo, uma visão tocante da relação ancestral entre o homem e o seu cão.

A free collection of excerpts from Spencer Quinn’s irresistible and bestselling Chet and Bernie Mystery Series.

The fourth installment in the irresistible New York Times bestselling mystery series featuring canine narrator Chet and his human companion Bernie—“the coolest human/pooch duo this side of Wallace and Gromit” (Kirkus Reviews). Humor and intrigue combine for a “thoroughly entertaining comic mystery” (Booklist) as Spencer Quinn’s engaging and unlikely team of crime solvers takes on the case of a boy gone missing from a wilderness camp. The kid’s mother thinks her ex-husband snatched their son, but Chet’s always reliable nose leads Bernie in a new and dangerous direction. Meanwhile, matters at home get complicated when a stray puppy that looks suspiciously like Chet shows up. Affairs of the heart collide with a job that’s never been tougher, requiring our intrepid sleuths to trust each other even when circumstances—and a rival P.I.—conspire to keep them far apart.

How does an elephant vanish without a trace? Chet and his master, PI Bernie Little, go under the Big Top to solve the most unlikely missing persons (and animals) case ever in the third book of this brilliant "New York Times"-bestselling series.

An eBook collection featuring the first and second novels in the irresistible New York Times bestselling series featuring canine narrator Chet and his human Bernie—“the coolest human/pooch duo this side of Wallace and Gromit” (Kirkus Reviews). The Chet and Bernie mystery series belongs to the long tradition of two-buddy private eye stories, where one of the buddies is the narrator—for example, Holmes and Watson. The big difference here is that the narrating buddy is a dog, Chet by name. In Dog On It, he and his partner Bernie investigate the disappearance of a teenage girl who may or may not have been kidnapped. Bernie and Chet have both had some setbacks in life—Bernie in combat, Chet in K-9 school—but together they make up a team like no other in the literature of detection. Chet is full of heart, and occasionally mischief, but always intensely loyal to Bernie—and dedicated to unraveling the mysterious disappearance of a high school girl who seems to have gotten mixed up with some very dangerous characters. In Thereby Hangs a Tail, Bernie and Chet are called on to investigate threats made against an unlikely target—a pretty and pampered show dog named Princess. What seems like a lark of a case turns serious when Princess and her owner are abducted. To make matters worse, Bernie’s on-again off-again girlfriend, reporter Susie Sanchez, disappears too. When Chet is separated from Bernie, he’s on his own to put the pieces together, find his way home, and save the day.

Un thriller che parla due lingue: quella della suspense e quella dei cani. A volte divertente, a volte commovente, a tratti terrificante... Un romanzo unico nel suo genere.

Moi, Chet, chien-détective, me revoilà sur les routes, truffe au vent, à la recherche d''une comtesse et de sa Princess. Je n''ai pas tout compris mais au départ il s''agissait seulement d''une promenade de santé. Une histoire de concours canin et de protection rapprochée censée nous aider, mon associé Bernie et moi, à régler nos problèmes de trésorerie. Or la balade s''est vite transformée en course contre la montre. La Contessa et sa chienne, une boule de poils maniérée, ont disparu. Pire: Suzie, Suzie Sanchez, aussi. Et ça, ça retourne Bernie. Parce qu''il y tient beaucoup, à sa Suzie, mème s''ils ne se voient plus trop ces deux-là depuis que l''ex de Suzie est revenu dans la partie. Va falloir avoir du flair pour démèler cette histoire... .

Een Amerikaanse privé-detective en zijn maat, de hond Chet, accepteren de opdracht om een andere hond te beveiligen.

Moi, c''est Chet, chien-détective. Oui, c''est vrai, j''ai lamentablement échoué aux épreuves de sélection de chien policier, mais bon, sniffer des paquets de drogue au milieu des chaussettes sales, c''était vraiment un boulot de chien ! Non, finalement, je me suis associé avec Bernie, un détective privé un peu cabossé par la vie — divorce, pension alimentaire, fins de mois difficiles, vous voyez le genre, quoi ! Il fait dans la recherche de personnes disparues... Là, on vient de nous demander de retrouver une ado qui a fait une fugue. Fastoche ! Je renifle ses affaires, un sac à dos qui sent le vieux hamburger et le pétard, et nous voilà partis dans la décapotable de Bernie. Lui tient le volant, moi je fais la route truffe au vent. Au fait, il y avait une autre odeur dans les affaires de la gamine. La peur... Là, mon vieux Bernie, il va falloir s''y mettre si on ne veut pas la retrouver en chair à pâté, cette petite !

I denne romanen møter vi privatdetektiven Bernie og assistenten og hunden hans Chet, som også er bokens forteller. Historien er preget av mye humor, men samtidig bygget opp over et klassisk krimplott. Vi følger de to i jakten på en bortført jente, en jakt som fører til en rekke avsporinger. En spennende lukt kan for eksempel være mer enn nok til å bringe etterforskningen på ville veier. Stikkord for romanen er skumle kjeltringer, mye spenning og en liten dose kjærlighet.