Life on the sunny side of the street grows ominously cloudy for Artie Deemer - happy owner of cash-cow celebrity dog Jellyroll - in his third darkly hilarious mystery from Edgar Award-nominee Dallas Murphy. The days of the best-loved pooch since Lassie may be numbered when Jellyroll - TV pitch dog, big-screen hero, and most-trusted mug ever to grace a pet-food box - falls prey to the bane of every celeb's high-profile existence: the stalker.Crude cartoons threatening to end Jellyroll's life in an ugly blaze of media glory are the calling cards of two wackos bent on acting out their own twisted version of Bowling for Dollars. It's creepy enough to convince Artie to take Jellyroll on an impromptu hiatus. With lively, professional pool player Crystal Spivey making a threesome, they're off to Maine for some R & R far from the prying eyes of publicity-hungry psychos.An island boathouse near a quaint fishing village seems like the perfect hideaway. But Kempshall Island and the town of Micmac are crawling with tourists drawn by a vision of the Lord's face in a patch of lichen. Factor in a serial killer with a taste for out-of-towners, a father and son duo of nosy yachtsmen dogging Jellyroll's trail, a skulking black-clad figure at the helm of a souped-up cigarette boat, and the newly unearthed bones of an old murder victim, and you've got more dark secrets, homicidal mania, and hidden madness than you can shake a lobster at. When Jellyroll and Crystal suddenly vanish, along with the only telephone and boat on the island, Artie has no choice but to stalk or be stalked. With rage in his heart, he sets out to rescue his loved ones and face the music ... even if it proves to be his own funeral march... Read Less