Bad Boy

It begins on a rainy Monday morning. Detective Sergeant Beverly Trotwood is on her way to work at the Cop Shop when a shiny pickup truck begins to play bumper tag with her Jeep Cherokee. The driver is wearing an over-the-head Bill Clinton mask.. The explosion comes next. Residents at the marina where Bev lives are startled when a bomb goes off in the galley oven of a sailboat. The owners are out on the dock at the time but what happens to their sleeping cat is far from pretty.. Soon anonymous letters arrive in Bevs in a basket at the office. Printed in black marker pen and signed with a Bad Boy sticker each is a list of names. Unpleasant things happen to the people on the lists. A loan shark is beaten within an inch of his life; a trigger-happy cop is found dead in the New River.. Bev investigates the Bad Boy case. Her sidekick Ivory Jones helps; so does Radar Thompson in forensics. For aggravation theyre dealt Wally Finster a big ex-marine with a potbelly and a crush on Bev.. Bev and Ivory go on stakeout in the burbs; there is a rousing rodeo and the Bad Boy is captured.. And Bev still hasnt decided whether or not to marry Art Ardsbarger.