There's a new Big Fish in the Unnatural Quarter! When the demon Mafia Don receives an eternal prison sentence-life without parole, and he's immortal-a new underworld kingpin rises to the surface. Sammy the Salmon and his scaly goons are running the illicit wolfsbane trade-and bodies start to float belly up. Only Dan Shamble can stop a mafia family war that puts his friends in the crossfire!

But he's tangled in a net of related cases. He teams up with a cowardly bounty hunter to find a deadbeat werecat who left his litter of werekittens with no child support. And he must protect famous mummy author Tut T. T. Tut from fans who want the unfinished manuscript for his Egyptian epic A Game of Pharaohs. (They've been waiting 4000 years for the next scroll in the series!)

Worst of all, a great terror reappears from the past-Rhonda, the ex-wife, demands custody of Dan's vampire half-daughter Alvina! And Rhonda may be the worst monster the Unnatural Quarter has ever seen.