{"product_id":"9781499055894","title":"Bad Boy","description":"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 Bev’s 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, they’re 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 hasn’t decided whether or not to marry Art Ardsbarger.","brand":"Xlibris US","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47177123791088,"sku":"9781499055894","price":3.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781499055894_p0.jpg?v=1763704168","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781499055894","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}