ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Edgar Award nominee Dallas Murphy is a novelist, a nonfiction writer, an essayist, and a journalist.

His hugely popular Artie Deemer series follows the fast-paced, rollicking adventures of the reluctant sleuth Artie and his celebrity dog Jellyroll—who foots all the bills as a star of screen, TV, and dog-food boxes. Lover Man, the first mystery in the series, was nominated for an Edgar Award for Best First Novel and was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. It was followed up by the darkly-funny thrillers Lush Life and Don’t Explain.

He also wrote the wild crime novel Apparent Wind about the antics of an ex-con and his unlikely entourage as they dodge bombs, corrupt cops, and crazy killers in Florida. The book earned him well deserved comparisons to John Irving and Kurt Vonnegut.

In his nonfiction career, Murphy contributes articles about sailing to a number of magazines. He also writes nonfiction books about the ocean, including Rounding the Horn, To Follow the Water, Plain Sailing, and most recently, To the Denmark Strait. He lives in New York City.