While investigating a suicide, Dave Brandstetter discovers a dead reporter?s final scoop Adam Streeter has covered international crises from Siberia to Cambodia. When disaster strikes, he grabs his battered typewriter and hops on a plane, hurling himself into danger wherever the story demands. He is brave, talented, and internationally renown?so why would he turn a pistol on himself? ? Insurance investigator Dave Brandstetter has seen enough suicides to know that a journalist this successful would never take his own life. Suspecting treachery, he digs into Adam?s last story?an unpublished investigation into the whereabouts of a vanished South American strongman, called El Carnicero,the Butcher?and Adam?s death shows every hallmark of his bloody style. To finish Adam?s investigation, Dave will have to make like a war correspondent and leap into the line of fire. ? The Little Dog Laughed is book eight in the Dave Brandstetter Mystery series, which also includes Troublemaker and The Man Everybody Was Afraid Of.
