Keenan has lived all over the world but nowhere quite as strange as Centerlight Island, which is split between the United States and Canada. The only thing weirder than Centerlight itself is his neighbor Zarabeth, aka ZeeBee.
ZeeBee is obsessed with the islandβs history as a Prohibition-era smuggling route. Sheβs also convinced that her beloved dog, Barney, was murderedβsomething Keenan finds pretty hard to believe.
Just about everyone on Centerlight is a suspect, because everyone hated Barney, a huge dogβpart mastiff, part rottweilerβnotorious for terrorizing the community. Accompanied by a mild-mannered new dog who is practically Barneyβs opposite, ZeeBee enlists Keenanβs help to solve the mystery.
As Keenan and ZeeBee start to unravel the clues, they uncover a shocking conspiracy that dates back to Centerlightβs gangster past. The good news is that Keenan may have found the best friend heβs ever had. The bad news is that the stakes are sky-high.
And now someone is after them. . . .
Gordon Korman published his first book at age fourteen and since then has written more than one hundred middle grade and teen novels. Favorites include the New York Times bestselling Ungifted, Supergifted, The Superteacher Project, The Unteachables, Pop, Notorious, Unplugged, Operation Do-Over, Slugfest, and the Masterminds series. Gordon lives with his family on Long Island, New York. You can visit him online at gordonkorman.com.