Tom McBride

Bent Dead In Beloit Tom McBride

Beloit is an old Wisconsin river town with a colorful history, industrial ingenuity, and famed college. Jeremy Dropsky and Roger Webb are partners in the Beloit police force, but they could hardly be more different. Jeremy is a hyper-logical loner, a failed college student, and a devotee of his little cat Dez. Roger is instinctual, married, good-looking, and in great need of becoming a hero. But they like each other a lot. Together they do the good work of Beloit cops, which includes cooling domestic fights, eradicating meth houses, and dealing with the obsessive resentments of Rose, the department's administrative head. Then one day they are called to investigate what may actually be a non-event: an alleged Peeping Tom in a fashionable section of east Beloit. As they investigate what Jeremy thinks is nothing at all, and what Roger thinks is a sinister plot, they encounter a strange mixture of expensive candy, fractured marriage-and uncanny murder. BENT DEAD IN BELOIT explores the fateful relationship between Jeremy and Roger as they encounter a world that seems to make no sense-until it does, and then it's far too late. Here is a fascinating story of mystery and despair, heroism and love.