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Carol Lea Benjamin

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Carol Lea Benjamin is a dog trainer and author who integrates her careers into both fiction and nonfiction writing. Benjamin's nonfiction works include, Dog Training in 10 Minutes and The Chosen Puppy: How to Select and Raise a Great Puppy from an Animal Shelter. Her fiction works include The Dog näytä lisää Who Knew Too Much and This Dog for Hire, which won the 1997 Dog Writer Association of America Award for Fiction. (Bowker Author Biography) näytä vähemmän

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Tekijän teokset

Koiratemppuja (1978) 152 kappaletta
This Dog for Hire (1996) 143 kappaletta
Fall Guy (2004) 102 kappaletta
Lady Vanishes (1999) 88 kappaletta
The Dog Who Knew Too Much (1998) 87 kappaletta
A Hell of a Dog (1999) 86 kappaletta
The Wrong Dog (2000) 83 kappaletta
The Hard Way (2006) 74 kappaletta
The Long Good Boy (1991) 72 kappaletta
Dog Problems (1981) 66 kappaletta
Without a Word (2005) 60 kappaletta
Dog Training in 10 Minutes (1997) 54 kappaletta

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Manhattan Noir (2006) — Avustaja — 109 kappaletta

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I love all of Benjamin's books about Dash the pit bull
 
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GigiB50 | 7 muuta kirja-arvostelua | Dec 18, 2023 |
This story was pretty good, but it did go on a bit. There is some information about cloning in this book. Basically, Rachel is hired to locate a company called Side by Side, which had cloned three dogs from the same mother, Blanche, who is a seizure alert dog. The owner of Blanche has one of the offspring, Bianca, and does not think that the seizure alert trait has transferred to the puppies. Rachel begins to investigate, but someone clearly does not want her to do that.
 
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baughga | 2 muuta kirja-arvostelua | Dec 29, 2022 |
Note: I received a digital review copy of this book through NetGalley.
 
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fernandie | Sep 15, 2022 |
I liked "This Dog For Hire". It kept me entertained from beginning to end. It also kept refusing to be the easy-to-classify book I thought I'd bought.


I was expecting a cosy mystery with a sassy woman PI accompanied by a cute-but-muscular dog that saves the day. It sort of is that, but it mostly isn't.


Rachel Alexander is more spiky than sassy. She's a hard-bitten New Yorker who's too tough to intimidate or to bullshit. She's a thirty-eight-year-old, recently divorced woman who gave up her dog training business when she married and took up the PI business when she divorced, mostly because her family thought it was a terrible idea. Dash, her pitbull who she rescued (stole) as a puppy from punks who wanted to train him to fight, is cute but muscular but he's sidelined for most of the book.


The plot is clever, with a few unexpected but reasonable twists in it. Most of the action is set at the Westminster Kennel Club Show in Maddison Garden and it's clear that this is a world that Carol Lea Benjamin understands very well. Seen through Rachel Alexander's unforgiving and perceptive eyes, the fiercely competitive nature of the show and the idiosyncrasies of its participants are thrown into vivid relief.


The story is a lot darker and more emotionally intense than I'd expect a cozy mystery to be. This isn't a tidy middle-class white-picket-fence kind of tale. We're taken amongst New York's homeless and dying and we're shown the taken-for-granted gay-bashing. A childhood of abuse is a key plot element. It's revealed with skill and told with a compassionate honesty that makes it painful to read.


Once I scrubbed my pre-conceptions and took the book on its own terms, I found myself enjoying being in Rachel Alexander's often abrasive company, partly because the traumas she was dealing with were real and important and not just devices needed to enable neat plot twists.


"This Dog For Hire" came out in 1997 and is the first of nine books in the series, that last being published in 2006. I'm looking forward to reading the next one "The Dog Who Knew Too Much" when it comes out as an audiobook.


I listened to the audiobook version of "This Dog For Hire" which was released in November 2019. It's narrated by Dina Pearlman who is the perfect choice for this series.
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MikeFinnFiction | 7 muuta kirja-arvostelua | May 16, 2020 |

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